PhilC - 9:59 pm on Nov 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

Hi ciml,

Yes, all links on a page count as links but when Google hasn't spidered the remote page, they are called dangling links, and dangling links are dropped from the PR calculations within the first few iterations and put back again a few iterations before the end. In that way, they have minimal effect on the resulting PRs of other pages. That's according to Brin and page's original document.

Google doesn't spider pages that the robots.txt file says it can't index. So they are the same as pages that they haven't even found yet but have links to. That's why I believe those 'Contact' type pages will be treated as danglings and, if they are, they won't suck up any PR - or a very minimal amount.