I am working on submitting to a list of about 200 website directories, all of which have PRs from 2 - 6. My question is, a lot of them show a certain PR for the domain, but individual pages where the links are listed say PR 0. For example: www.fakewebsitedirectorydomain.com has PR 5 www.fakewebsitedirectorydomain.com/category1 shows PR 0 Do you get any benefit of the site being a PR 5 or do you really get no benefit besides people clicking the link? Perhaps its some technicality with slashes and www or something in the URL that it shows PR 0? Anyone know?
Only the page that links to you passes PR. A page can pass approximately 85% of its PR, but that PR is divided between the number of outgoing links. So a page that is a PR5 would pass 85% of it's PR if you had the only outgoing link. It would pass 1/10 the PR if there was 10 links on the page, etc. That's why pages with a large number of links pass very, very little PR. It can be better to have a link on a PR3 page than a PR6 with a hundred links. Google has blocked a lot of directories from passing PR. The directories that seem to be in the business of selling PR and which accept any link are more likely to have been flagged by google. If a page shows no PR, it can mean a couple of things. Either the page is new and hasn't gone through a PR toolbar update, or the page isn't passing PR. If the home page has PR, but all the inner pages with links show as zero, it isn't going to pass PR unless it happens to be a brand new directory. Google updates its internal PR (which is what is used) 2-3 times a month, while the toolbar PR updates 3-4 months. Toolbar PR is always a look at the past and by the time you see it, any benefit of the link has already been factored in. Google rounds PR, so a link could be a 5.01 or a 5.99 - so all PR5's (etc) are not equal, but you have no way of knowing the exact PR.
In my opinion, just check the page's PR (the one where your link will be). A PR7 homepage / PR0 directory page will be less useful to you that a PR3 homepage / PR2 dir page...