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First, my links page is essentially a series of links to partners, pages on the site itself, and links to other sites people might find useful and sites that I find useful. There were quite a few links on this page but I've worked that number down quite a bit so now it seems acceptable to implement a PRx policy.
Next, the exceptions. Obviously, if a page I'm linking to is a reciprocal link partner their PR is irrelevant (I checked them just to see though). Second, links to pages within in the site stay regardless of PR. Third, navigation and "legal links" stay as well.
So I decided that a good PR would be 4. That typically indicates an established site with some backlinks and they are definitely not banned. So now, except for the exceptions, Every site I link from that page has a PR of 4 or higher. Most of them are at least PR6 or higher. The links page itself has a PR of 3 with no backlinks from any other web sites (according to FAST and AltaVista). So after the deep crawl and the next update I'll touch base and see if the PR of the page has increased, decreased, or stayed the same.
Experimenting as usual,
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> I myself have wondered (as have many other people) whether linking to high/higher PR sites can help with the PR of that page or the rankings of that page.
At least the effect for PR can be answered. Assuming that the original algorithm is still valid (and you have a 'normal' link structure, i.e. you can reach each internal page from each other with a few clicks) the PR of your link page as well as the other pages on your site decrease. However, normally you won't see this effect because of the resolution of the ToolbarPR and the logarithmic scale. Also, you will always have the problem that other parameters are changing too. Namely, the number of incoming links, the PR of the pages linking to you, the transferred PR to your site, the ToolbarPR scale etc. could change after an update. Therefore, it is hard to separate the different effects.
However, even if PR is decreased, external links could improve the ranking and that is finally the important point. It will be interesting to see if you could find any evidence for this. Even if this is currently not the case, Google could implement such an algorithm in the future.
Good luck for your experiments.
Number of internal links: 23
Average PR of internal links: 1
Number of external links: 58
Average PR of external links: 7
Total Number of links: 81
Average PR of ALL links: 6
Essentially, the theory being tested would benefit from cleaning out the lower PR links and increasing the policy of linking to sites from PR4 to PR5. But, that's not really an option so the test might be moderately flawed. It also might be flawed in the sense that my number of backlinks to the site (and various pages on the site) should increase over the next deep crawl and update. Potentially increasing PR site wide.
However, there are no backlinks to the links page itself and it currently maintains the same PR as the home page (which might already prove that this theory is fact). But, it's too early to tell.
So...
Should I see a site wide increase in PR it will be very interesting to see where the PR of the links page itself goes. If it stays the same as the home page then it is likely that there will be no conclusion (unless some more modifications are made ie, increasing minimum PR policy, removing low PR links, etc.). Should the PR of the links page be higher than the PR of the home page then this theory will be proven as fact. Right?
