Hi. I am a beginner in SEO. I understand that if a site points to me, my PR will increase (some of the PR of that web site will be "transferred" to me). But what I don't understand is this: Let's say that a site with PR5 (vvv.something.com) links to me, but not from its index page (the page with PR5) but from a new created web page that has PR0 (vvv.something.com/links.html). So, the value of the link is PR5 or PR0? Thanks.
It is a very good point you have raised. I believe that, same question is raised to everybody’s minds. None but Google knows the exact answer to this question but unfortunately this has never been disclosed. We all can assume but not sure. The back link concept is not trusted anymore now a days based on last 3 / 4 PR updates. What all I can assume, PR depends on below points. 01) Quality BL 02) Regular Updating of content 03) Good traffic 04) W3C based design pattern 05) .Gov or .edu based Domain BL 06) Quality and unique information 07) Domain age and expiry date 08) Proper way of using sitemap and Google Webmaster tools 09) Article and News BL 10) SEO Optimized 11) And finally site becomes useful for people and society NOT FOR GOOGLE ONLY. I will agree there are many points Google consider at PR but above point will remain on top. One think we all should understand that, you cannot expect google’s Algorithm can perfectly ascertain every sites, offcourse there will be some exception nearly 2% – 5% and that is way most of the SEO expert get confused. Regards Nazrul Islam Eicra Soft Ltd http://www.hosting.net.bd
hmmm I'm guessing you only receive the full PR if it is on the full PR page. If google automagically granted you the pr of the sites main page then why would they even bother with ranking sub-pages? i.e. if I give you a link from my social networking or blogging page you are not going to get the pr of Myspaces.com
Compiled, I would like to advise you to install Google Toolbar in your browser to see the PR of the page that contains your URL link. If there is no PR shown there, it means that you will get PR 0 from that site. So answering your question above, you will get PR 0! And also note that if a page site that contains many links, the PR that you get will be divided by all the URL links there!
Of course each page has it own PR so getting backlinks from specific page that has high PR will be better. If not, just like what you've said getting from newly created subpage, see to it that it will be indexed frequently so you link will be indexed too.
Me too wonder how PR work ... I have a newly develop site (one month) with out any back link building (only put the link at signature in this and another forum), frequent update and content is not the best or unique but i get reward with PR 1 during recent PR update (and the site only one month old), why and how it happen ??? thanks noob here