Say a website is PR8.... and one of the pages is PR0..... and my backlink is on the PR0. Does that count as a PR8 backlink, or a PR0 backlink? All along I've been thinking the PR of the actual page is the link juice amount..... but recently Ive been hearing talk that the pagerank of the actual website is the key What do you guys think?
I've always thought it was the actual page too If the actual page isn’t even directly/indirectly linked to the page it won’t pass any juice at all. But if the page is referred to the main page, the chances are, its PR will also be quite high So the page from which you are linked from passes on the PR juice (But that’s just guess work)
From all of my research, I truly believe that there is a whole lot of weight given to sites with High PR index pages. Many people will say that you only get credit from the actual page's PR, but I have many reasons for believing this is false; including these words from Matt Cutts: http://www.stephanspencer.com/search-engines/matt-cutts-interview
Keep in mind that none of us actually know Google's algorithm. None of us. At best, what you are getting is an educated guess.
I think if its linked to the hompage, eventually the pr from the homepage will go the page and than go to your site
well as you said it yourself that the page that your link is on has PR 0 so that won't be counted as PR 8
That sentence is your key. Websites don't have PR -- webpages do. Correct. It could be that the PR0 page is simply too new to show any TBPR, but it might really have some decent weight behind it.
Good point. PR seems to be a page-level thing, but authority is more site-wide (and probably more important).
Yes.... im starting to think that most people are wrong about thinking the actual PAGE gives the link juice I mean, a PR2 Backlink on a PR10 website.... must weigh more than a PR3 link on a PR4 website
No, they don't. PageRank, as was defined by Google in their document a decade ago, is a mathematical formula for individual pages. The home page of a site tends to have more, but that's simply a factor of every sub-page linking back home. That's possible, but that goes back to site authority, not PageRank.
True. But in answer to your question, it's a backlink from the page, not site, so it would be a 0... any directory submission would show you that
If this was the case, the millions of blogger blogs with PR0, and no traffic would be great backlinks, which they aren't.
each web page will have a seperate PR, so just because you link to a site with a PR8 does not mean that you will have a PR8 link. You need to check the specific page your link comes from and that way you will know.
Backlink depends on the Pr of page from where it is coming. And it also depends on other things like, number of outbound links on the page, relevancy of the page etc. Take the example of DP, if you have links in threads, does it mean they will count as PR7 links? If yes, then that would meant that I have 6000 links from PR7 pages and that will surely give my site a PR 10