My base (home page) has a PR of 3. I want to put my link on sites with PR4 and above. However PR of which page should be considered when putting the link ie. base page (home page) or link page? Eg. The site on which I want to put my sites link has a PR of 5 for base page (home page) but has a PR of 2 for their link page. Will putting my sites link on their link page having PR 2 benefit me. Harish
There are many theories and Google's algorithm is in constant state of flux. For quickest results I would want a link page with page rank 4 or greater. In long term it probably does not matter. Many recommend exchanging links with any page so long as it does not belong to link farm. A page rank 2 page today may well be a page rank 4 page tomorrow. Recently forum posters report Google is showing some links with page rank less than 4. In past I have seen links from a friend's site dropped when page rank of her links page droppd below 4. What I am trying to say is you have immediate goals and long term goals. A page rank 2 links page may not help with your immediate goals but be helpful in long term goals. Shannon
The PR passed to you will be from the link page only. You will receive no PR from the home page of the linking site except for that which has been passed to the link page already. You should not only be looking at the PR of the linking site. If the site has the potential to pass you traffic / customers, that is an even better reason to have them as a backlink.
That's completely wrong. It will give you a backlink and if you use the right anchor text it will pass significant relevance to your page. All you guys need to read the 100 other threads on this forum that have established that PR has very little to do with SERP placement. But in answer to the other part of the question SEO_AM is correct. PR is passed by the linking page and has nothing to do with the site or any other page on the site. PR stand for Page Rank. It is passed from the linking page to the target page. End of story.
Also, if the home page is PR5 and it links to the links page, you would expect the link page's PR to increase over time.