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But does it matter which page links to you? If a linking web site has a home page with a page rank of 7, and a links page with a page rank of 3, how does google weight links from either page coming into your site?
I am of course not looking for exact figures here, just a general guide rule for which page to try to get a friendly web site to use for linking to my web site.
Side note. What's weird is, I've seen home pages (and other pages) on sites have a higher page rank with the "www." prefix in front of the browser Address Bar URL than without it. That seems a bit silly.
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But does it matter which page links to you? If a linking web site has a home page with a page rank of 7, and a links page with a page rank of 3, how does google weight links from either page coming into your site?
The current page rank algorithm treats the web as a collection of pages, with no concept of a "site". So a links page with PR3 is a PR3 page, whatever the PR of any other pages on that site. Similarly the PR7 home page is a PR7 page.
If the link to you is on a PR 3 page at nicedomain.net, and assuming nothing is prohibiting the pr from passing, what your site gets is based on a link from a PR 3 page, and it's irrelevant whether nicedomain.net has PR4 or PR on its index page.
The reason www.domain.net/index.html and domain.net/index.html have different PR is, if I recall correctly (I'm still rather a novice so pardon if I botch this), www.domain.net is treated as a subdomain of domain.net, so they are spidered as different pages, unless the site owner has one pointed directly to the other.
It is quite technically feasible to have different content at www.domain.net/index.html and domain.net/index.html. While usually these are the same, this is not necessarily so.
