Question: I have a Webpage, A. On this page I place a grand total of 10 links. 9 links go to page B. 1 link goes to page C. When the pagerank that A can pass is allocated, will it be passed so that: 90% of PR goes to B 10% goes to C. or will Google's algo allocate: 50% of PR to B. 50% of PR to C. Your thoughts and comments welcomed please. Thank you.
Interesting question. As I read the algorighm, it is entirely plausible that 10% of page A's PR would go to page B and 10% of page A's PR would go to page C. So yet still another possibility to consider.
I’ve read that only the first outbound link to a unique url is counted, but individual pages are counter separately. So this is worthless a href=http://www.website.com a href=http://www.website.com a href=http://www.website.com but this is good a href=http://www.website.com/article_one a href=http://www.website.com/article_two a href=http://www.website.com/article_three Can any seo people confirm or dispute?
Hi Ron, what you've said coincides exactly with my own understanding, so that in my example above 50% of PR goes to B and 50% of PR to C even though more links point from page A to page B than point to page C. I haven't done any tests though and I don't have any real evidence to prove it. So, like you I'd also be especially interested if a SEO expert could point us in the right direction.
I also think that Google probably only counts the first link to any given page. If this is correct then your 50/50 suggestion is correct. Now the other question that follows from this example is say there is a third link to some outside page, is the PR passed to that page diluted by a factor of 11 or by a factor of 3? I've written an article about PageRank and how to get it, that you may find interesting.
Thanks Bob - I only started using these forums in the last 36 hours and what a coincidence - that article of yours is one that's been in my bookmarks for a couple of months. I've read it several times and I'm basing a campaign to raise my website's PR on what you wrote there. So thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and it's great that you're on this forum. One of the main reasons I'm trying to raise PR is not so much that I want high PR for its own sake as that having higher PR seems to make it easier to get backlinks with the anchor text I want.
Thanks Explorer. Nice to know that somebody enjoys and appreciates my articles. I agree that high PR does make exchanging links a lot easier. I don't really understand why this should be because any knowledgable webmaster knows that the publicly available PR is months behind in being updated and highly unreliable. But lots of people still live and die by a number that is totally untrustworth. Seems sort of stupid to me.
Yes, I think people are just trying to do their best with the very limited info that they have because (having been a reader but not poster on a few SEO type forums) there's a lot of disinformation out there.
Well, Bob, Ziandra, and Ron, I've set up an experiment on a site. Come the next toolbar update I will have a definitive answer to to the PR allocation question.
My understanding is that you pass 1/number of links off to any new page. Hence if you had 10 links and 1 links to site B, you would pass 1/10 of that pages PR to it. I also believe the algorithm drops duplicates AFTER counting the number of links. Hence if you had 9 links to site A, you would pass 1/10 of that page's PR to it as well. There is nothing that says a page rank 4 page has got to pass 4 worth of page rank off to the links. Lets say you had 100 links and 80 of them were blacklisted. The other 20 would get 1% of your page rank with 80% of your page rank not used to "boost" the page rank of another. Then again, I do not know exactly HOW google implemented it. I just read the paper over at stanfords web site so speculating on how they "may" have done it.