NickCoons - 6:09 pm on Feb 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

rogerd,

<Nick, the domains DO count. Getting links from 5000 sites is not the same as getting links from every page on a 5000 page site.>

Do you have evidence of this? Based on Google's original algorithm (which has probably changed since, but to what extent is unknown to us), it counts links on pages only, and puts no weight on the site that those links come from.

If:

www.widgets.com/index.php
and
www.widgets2.com/index.php

...both link to a site, that's exactly the same number of backlinks as:

www.widgets.com/index.php
and
www.widgets.com/index2.php

...linking to a site. The PR is calculated in the same way, and no more or less weight is assigned to the PR because the links came from one site or two.

If you believe otherwise, please post how you're coming to this conclusion :-).