yes, another pagerank question. i hate them to,but i'm going to ask anyway. site A has no backlinks to get a pagerank,but has a listing in the yahoo directory and that page is a pr 4. in theory,site A would get a pagerank of 3.would it? site B has no backlinks to get a pagerank,but has a link on site A. in theory,site B would get a pagerang of 2.would it? not a trick question.
well, at the directory page, even thought it has Page Rank 4, there are a lot of websites there and the PR will be split between them. You need a lot of links to get PR3 and you can't get it from just a link in a directory. you can't get PR from just one site. you need more links for that.
thats why i said in theory. it can take only one pr4 link for a page to become a pr3. look at any site that has a pagerank.pages that have a link on the front page often have a pagerank one lower then the index. anyway,i asked could it happen.
Looks like you are been in the forum since 2006 you would have gone through the basics first. no offense http://www.google.com/corporate/tech.html http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank.html
I guess that is part of google's black box of rankings. No one really knows exactly how the back link weighting occurs.