link values and page rank

[tyrojds]

if, say, a pr 6 site links to me but their links page is a pr 1, does this make it a low value link?

[Quinn]

Yes. Low PR value.

But I would not consider it low value for that reason alone...

[topr8]

if, say, a pr 6 site links to me but their links page is a pr 1

try to think of the web as a bunch of interconnected pages when you think pr - pr is page specific not site specific.

and of course pr can go up and down over time... so todays low pr page may well increase in value (or decrease of course)

[Marketing Guy]

As Quinn says there is more value lying in a link than PR.

Too many sites are thinking in terms of SEO (well, OK at least on this forum! ;)). It is entirely possible for a site to have a well established site, with a great user base and no PR.

For example, the Monster Jobs forums have no PR, but with 500k users per month, would you knock back a link?

Scott

[DaveN]

what if the link is coming from a page called links.html but its a pr8?

Dave

[mil2k]

If the page is well designed and does not have tons of link on it then take the link :) I know your thought process and I have also given it a lot of thought but i still feel links.html is here to stay. It would be very difficult to disregard links.html . The tricky part will be the combination of links.html with a directory structure. What do you guys think?

[trillianjedi]

This whole links page/site map issue is I'm sure related to a limping google.

It is certainly here to stay.

Even if it does get PR0'd for any other reason, if the potential traffic is good, take the link.

TJ

[tyrojds]

thanks for the info on this issue. now, for pdq (potentially dumb question) #2, what is "links.html?" is this a generic reference to links pages?

[trillianjedi]

thanks for the info on this issue. now, for pdq (potentially dumb question) #2, what is "links.html?" is this a generic reference to links pages?

Yes, and specifically the rumour that google that be penalising pages with that name.

TJ

[mil2k]

A week or two back the Google toolbar was acting really crazy and many link pages were showing PR 0 which lead to speculation that google was handling penalties to link pages.

It's not a dumb question . We sometimes think all members spend 12 hrs a day on WW and forget that there are also normal sane people out here who have a life other than WW :)

[topr8]

link.html

i think it likely that a page titled: LINKS is just as/more important that the file name

also remember that should google act on these links pages in a negative way it will only be to downgrade the value of the pr the page has, it won't be to penalise sites that are linked to from that page