how long before a links effects are felt?

[MrBounce]

lets say i got a one way PR8 link to my optimised page with desirable anchor text. how long before that links effects would be felt in the pages search engine results?

[sji2671]

Probably very quickly as that PR8 link would be spidered daily, check the cache of the PR8 page to see that google has seen the link and within a day or so after that. So in all within 1 week I would guess.

[MrBounce]

damn that was fast. 4 minutes and i have an answer. thankyou very much scott.

so it really depends on how often the link itself gets spidered? ie/ if it was a link from a small new site the link would take longer to take effect?

[sji2671]

A higher PR page, ie 8 will itself have a lot of backlinks & important backlinks so it will be visited a lot more by the spiders, when they visit they would see the new outbound link to your site and follow it.

Yes a link on a small site or inside page could take weeks/months to be found.

[promotion]

Until and unless search engines crawl the page you can't get benifit of that.