What is more important, the PR of the domain or the PR of the page where the link is on? For example would you take a link from PR0 page on a PR5 domain, or PR2 page on a PR3 domain? I have argued about this with some folks who regularly buy links and give too much importance on link page PR. I personally would take a PR0 link from an authority site, than a PR 2-3 from a PR3 site.
If that is an authority site then their linked pages will also have high pr. The thing that matters is that you have the page's pr transfer to your site! For example: If a webgae has a pr of 3 and has 50 links on that site then the pr transfer to your site would be 3/50=0.06 and if a web page has a pr of 2 and only has 10 links on that page then the transfer of pr to your site would be 2/10=0.2 So you see that the latter one gives more pr to your site. This way you can increase your pr, and your popularity! Hope this helps Take care Manish
High PR does not mean it is an authority. I can get a PR6 in 2 weeks just by throwing up some links on a new domain, authority? No. But if you buy links for PR get the link on a high PR page, with the less amount of other links and most related to your site. Also PR0 page on a PR5 domain - perhaps a new page? Just my 2 cents.
I care about the PR of tha page my link is on. It doesn't matter to me what the index PR is. I don't have a link there If the PR0 page was linked from the PR5 domain, i would want a link from the PR0 page (at the next update, this page will get PR). If the PR0 page will forever remain a PR0 page, offcourse i will choose the PR2 instead. Personally i agree with them. As Jim said, an authority site does not mean high PR only. Usually .gov, .edu links and other different aspects complete an authority site.
PR of the actual web page where your links is there is important. Its is true some times that a PR0 link is more valuable then a PR3/PR4/PR5 links if PR0 links brings in more traffic. Also a PR0 links may not be PR0 in the next update. So, always think in terms of what will bring value to your website and future prospect of the links.
PR of the actual page your link is on is most important, as that relates to how much pagerank transfer there is.
Surely high PR does not equal authority, but usually authority sites go with high PR. What I meant by authority is an old established site with quality natural backlinks. Here is a hypothetical scenario: site 1: PR 5/7, domain registered 1999, 100-300 old natural topical backlinks (few edu & gov, from homepage or content pages, no links/resource pages), site 2: PR 5, domain registered 2004, 700 links mostly from unrelated links pages, free directories, lots of recips) Now imagine you have to choose between two options: a) site 1 can link to you from a pr 0/1 content page that is a few levels deep (3-5) from homepage b) site 2 can link to you from their links page with PR 3/4 Now what would you choose, the PR 0/1 link from the authority site or the PR 3/4 link from site 2? I would definately choose the low PR link, as although its pure PR transfer value might be lower, its vote is far stronger than a vote from any links/resource page link from site 2. So basically my point was that it's far more important what site links to you (regardless of from which page) than what is the PR of the page your link is on. Trust Rank > Page Rank, as you can manipulate PR but you cannot manipulate TR.