I have ran a test to check on the rank high myth: get a PR10 backlink from Adobe forum. Here is my result and observation, please feel free to let me know do you agree with me? http://www.howtorankhigh.com/getting-backlink-from-pr10-site-jan-09-rank-high-myth-burst.html
Sure, it's a link, but what RELEVANT traffic will this drive to sites in the majority of niches? I believe that this "myth" and promise of a "PR9/PR10" link is used mostly to dupe those that don't understand the value of relevant one-way links in thinking they have found a diamond in the rough! While I am no expert in SEO, I have managed to grasp the basic concepts, and realize that efforts are best spent in developing quality content & building relevant links from relevant sites. The sooner people realize that obtaining a link from Adobe is going to do nothing for them if they run a blog on Acne, the sooner they will start seeing some real traffic that converts into revenue!
I'm surprised they aren't nofollow, or maybe even a coded redirect. Also, you haven't said how long you waited for google to show the backlink. There's no guarantee if or when google will register the link.
Did you actually test this? I have an article on Page One of Google out of 12.4 MILLION competing sites and not one of the sites I used for backinks could be considered "relevant" the the article or the directory on which is is posted. That was one of the things I was testing with the article.
It doesn't have to be the homepage. From a Google employee: I can't say much without violating my NDC, but I can definitely say this: the PR of a site is always 0 at creation, but at the next PR update (which is supposed to happen every 3 months, but we're a bit behind right now), the PR of something like a comment page will usually update to some portion of the PR of the main site. So if you put your site in a link from a PR8 government site, it'll look like PR 0 for a while, but when it updates to PR 3 or 4,it will become a much more powerful backlink. Of course, for extremely large sites, like your Warrior Forum for example, the PR of the main page is spread so thin that the comment page will still only have a PR 0 --but then, for sites that large and that popular, there are other factors at play that I can't go into that still make the backlink strong even at PR 0. Which proves what I've been saying all along. Links on a High Page Rank DOMAIN help your site a great deal. I conducted a test of this theory with an article I wrote not very long ago which is now on Page One of Google out of 12.4 MILLION competing sites. Most of the backlinks to the article are on sites with High Page Rank, but my link is on new pages without PR.
I no longer see where the post links to my profile in Adobe forums. How is Google going to index something it can´t crawl?
Very interesting study. I appreciated how you laid out all your steps for testing. I am still going to reserve judgment on whether this works or not but I really appreciate your research. I look forward to more comments by anyone else who has tried this. And maybe I should get around to just trying this myself.....
Hi ContentBoss, in the summary of this study, I have stated it will take weeks (or maybe months) to verify (if) the link will show up. You can subscribe to my blog and get notified once I observe if there is a backlink from Adobe.
As I explained in one of my previous comments, adobeforums.com is a PR5 domain (not PR 9 or 10)! Read this: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=10270636&postcount=67 And for christ sake, stop listening to the crap Angela says. She couldn't even look up the PR for this domain name...