As a general measure of a page's link popularity, TBPR still holds some interest. But we stopped looking at it years ago when it became clear that themed links matter, neighborhoods and communities matter, proximity to important Web sites matters, and low PR pages can often beat higher PR pages in the SERP's. neighborhoods and communities matter, proximity to important Web sites matters. could someone explain to me what does exactly neighborhoods ,communities ,proximity mean? geography neighborhoods? theme neighborhoods? i do not know.
"Neighborhoods/communities" refers to groups of sites that are related and often linked together. They may be related by industry/market (i.e, automotive forum sites, news sites) or more specifically by actual topic (i.e, Toyota-focused site, PC news sites). A good neighborhood would be a group of quality, related sites. A bad neighborhood would be groups of un-related sites or sites that are related but have little-to-no value/content or an obvious link exchange. It is a good rule that if quality sites are linking to you and you are linking out to quality sites and as long as the linking is "not excessive", then it's a good neighborhood.
Neighbourhood Also refers to the sites hosted along with your site on the server, In case its a shared server. In that case, if a site on a server is blacklisted, Impact is felt by almost all other sites hosted there..roximity here in this context means, Relevancy, the site should link out and should get links ONLY from relevant niche sites, making sure they are good enuff to link ..