PR vs SERPs, how to determine backlink value?

Let's say I'm looking at a list of pages I could get a backlink from. The list comes from a Google search, all options are heavily relevant to the target anchor text / keywords I'm after.

Here's my question:

One page is #1 on the search result, but it has a PR 0 or 1

The other page is #5 on the search result, but it has a PR 3 or 4

If you could choose only one of those to get a backlink from, which one would have a better affect on the target site's search results? How do you come to this conclusion?

Assume they are both identically relevant as far as content, keyword density, etc...

 

Dont get confused in PR of Back links,
just build more and more backlinks through white hat techniques.
You will get good PR as well as SERP rankings.

 

Pr and SERPs are two different things, it doesn't means good pr will top ranking position

 

exactly PR & SERPS are two different thing. There are so many example of it. anyway concentrate on your back link you will get both.

 

PR means Page rank this gives only page rank of a page it is not relevent to ranking in serp.
SERP is the ranking of your website for a keyword in search engine result page and this is more important thing if your site appears in first page you will get more traffic.

 

http://rankchecker.net/

 

What is Serp?

 

Search Engine Results Pages

It means that when you search in google or other search engines, it will relate to the pages that come up with the keyword

 

Checked out this tool....anyone else used it.

Here is what it said:


Meta tag Analysis

Author
Found no Author meta tag.
The Author meta tag is used by most of the search engines. Consider to add a Author meta tag.

Description relevancy to page content is terrible.
The Description relevancy to page content is 46%.

Keywords relevancy to page content is terrible.
The Keywords relevancy to page content is 20%.

Title relevancy to page content is terrible.
The Title relevancy to page content is 50%.

Anyone have any idea of what some good percentages are for relevancy?

PLus what it an Author meta tag and do you really need it?

 

You said both pages are relevant to the anchor text you want to place on the pages. So:

1. Look at the google cache date of each page. (30 days or fresher)
2. How many inbound and outbound links are on each page. (PR4 with 100 links flows little juice for example)
3. Check the quality of the outbound links on each page. If one page has spammy links (porn, viagra, gambling, etc) it will most likely be devalued.
4. Which page has better content and may send traffic your way aside from the juice it will flow with your backlink.

Maybe get both links if its a tough decision

 

I would be tempted to take the high PR site; but that would not be a better choice, Rather the one with #1 on serps would be a better choice. Why? That one get more traffic, that means more chances for you to get visitors. After all money talks.

 

Hey that tool really not working good, dont rely on it...

 

If you're certain that the Google Keywords are relevant and get a lot of traffic then all other things being equal I'd take the link from the #1 position site and ignore PR. Google thinks this page is the most relevant so should give more weight to the link. In addition, since it's already #1 it has the chance of getting more natural links that will give it more PR than the other site in the long run.

 

higher pr site for more link juice, but depends on how many outbound links on that page in comparison to the other. The reason the other may be getting high in the SERP is that it may be deemed by Google as an authority site, a link from 1 of these is highly valued