Page Importance v. Incoming Links v. Other Variables

Ok, Something I'd like to ask the forum:

Now, I know that page rank plays a role in the validity of the link, but how much?

Google currently indexes jrwrestling.com with over 1,000 pages, even though I only have 300 product pages and a couple dozen content pages.

The reason: it indexes all the review pages, sorting among catagories, etc.
Do these pages (since they do have equal PR to their counterpart 'real' catagories) count a great deal when back links are involved?

 

What do you mean by "validity" of a link? If you mean relevance then you are wrong PR does have anything to do with the relevance of a link. PR is a mathematical sharing of the PR of all the interconnected pages. PR is a number and nothing more and nothing less.

They share their PR value like any other page. Google doesn't make any distinction between the type of pages. If a page has a PR5 it will pass as much PR as any other PR5 page on the Internet.

What I don't understand is what site are these review pages on if they are not part of your site? And what is a "real category"?

 

I tend to write quickly and not reread what I say a lot, sorry for the confusion.

"what is a "real category"

Well, I would consider any number of the direct links from the main page "wrestling shoes" wrestling headgear" etc, real catagories. I am just suprised that when google indexes the page, it actually 'clicks' the sort features and spiders those as well.


"Now, I know that page rank plays a role in the validity of the link, but how much?"

The PR of the sorted pages (for example, sorting by price rather than name doesnt happen much) is what I was asking about... Whether these pages PR3/PR4 counts as much as other sites, I was asking if this PR4 sorted page counted as highly to a search engine as a link from a PR4 Index..

 

I'm still having some problem understanding your questio. I'm not sure what a 'sorted' page is.

But the answer is the same as my first post. A PR# is a PR# and passes as much PR as any other page, front, back, up down, sorted, real category, price, name whatever.

Most people think the PR passing formala is (85% of the PR) divided by the number of outbound links from the page. It does not matter where the page is or what kind of page it is. Two PR5 page with 10 outbound links will both pass (.85*5)/10 = .425 PageRank value to every page they link to.

The explanation for index pages generally having high PR than internal pages is, in part, because every internal page will have a link back to the 'home' page, but the 'home' page does not usually have a link to every internal page. So there is more PR passed back than passed down.

 

Ok,

you answered the Question...

http://www.jrwrestling.com/catalog/index.php/cPath/21/page/1/sort/5a

would be a sorted page, this one is sorted by the Spelling of the Manufacturer's name.

Onto another question:

Does an outbound link count only if going to another domain, or to other catagories(on the same domain) aswell?

 

great read, thanks