Macro - 5:21 pm on Feb 15, 2005 (gmt 0)

suidas, it sounds logical that Google would have more need to obfuscate PR issues for the more competitive terms. But, from a quick search or two that I did, it seems to also extend to very uncompetitive terms. For the term "medieval Spanish history" itself I'm getting 3s and 4s ahead of sixes. In fact, #2 is a PR0. But, yes, anything is possible with Google :)

About point 2 - we have no proof that they are intentionally warping tPR (toolbar PR) but yes, I agree, it looks like that :) and that may well be true. The tPR could be completely different to an aPR (algo PR) if they are running two concurrent PR systems.

HitProf, good point. Anchor text does not, of course, affect the PR itself but can affect your ranking in SERPs. Too much AT, too little AT and not diverse enough AT can all work against you.

For those new to it anchor text of the first link in my original post was the word "More...". Links pointing to you saying "click here" are considered less useful than links using your product name as the AT.

[edited by: Macro at 5:25 pm (utc) on Feb. 15, 2005]