Lets say Im doing a link exchange with someone, and they actually put 2, or 3, or 4 or 5 etc etc links on their high PR page. Does the more links on the page help with page rank? Or does it only count as one link passing PR?
Having to share the link with least possible number of links will benefit you more. Sharing your link with hundreds of other links on a same page is pretty useless as far as page rank is concered. I never allow more than 15 links in my link exchange pages (just to make sure that my partners get benefit from my PR).
Hmmm, you kinda answered the question but kinda didnt lol. Im talking about just MY link. If I trade with someone, and they hav JUST my link more than one time, does that help me? My link meaning the same link over and over, no one elses URL. ?
I would say no as well. If you have the same link over and over again on a page, lets say 5 of them pointing to the same page then 4 of those links will cancel each other out. The best thing to do is have each link point to a different page.
Based on the original formula it would also depend if the page has internal site links. If that page had a side bar with 20 internal links and they had one external link just to your site then you would be getting 1/21 of the .85(PR). If they had 5 links to your site now you are getting 5/25 of the .85(PR). However if they did not have any internal links then it shouldn't matter because it would all divide out to 1 x .85(PR). But who knows how much that original formula has been changed. Dennis
No, it doesn't pass any more PR, I'm unsure if it passes any extra anchor text benefit, I'd like to test this if I get the time.
no it wouldn't benefit you, and to my opinion it's quite simple too. Every page has a certain PR value to pass on, which is divided among the links on that page. If I have $10 to divide, it wouldn't matter if gave it to you in one time, or if i divided it in ten times 1$ right?
what about all the extra keywords / hyperlinked terms from having multiple links? Wouldnt that be an advantage if only when indexing and not passing pr?
I've not seen anything one way or the other to prove or disprove that. I'd like to test the theory if I have some time.
There is my answer to the question. I am always floored by people who use article marketing and try to reference the same URL a dozen times in the text of the article. Doing so is absolutely pointless. Google only counts the first. Then they get to their resource box, and after having listed their domain name a dozen times in the body of the article, they think that their imbedded keyword text in the resource box is going to have real value. NOT. If Google is only taking the first reference to your URL, then you need to make absolutely certain that your imbedded keyword text appears with the first link reference to your domain on the page. Anything else is a lost opportunity. Bill Platt
My opinion would is it will be better if you have links with inner pages. Most probably they will google will consider this as each inner page will have different PR. But at the same time, it wont be same as linking to different blogs homepage with different PR.