PR still used?

a link from a PR9 website is worthless?

[moftary]

Greetings,

In the old days, we all know that one link from a PR9 wesite would raise the linked website to a PR8 (assuming that there are not so many links in the PR9 one, etc..).

Now, I just browsed a website which is PR9 linking to another one which is PR0, both are cached by Google!

Could it be punished by Google? I donno, but it seems like the two website are of one webmaster that is testing something, the PR0 website is very simple and looks really like a test page (it even contains a text "email to sales@" and nothing!).

I know that there was a PR update, but this really seems like a huge one. Can one tell whether the website is being punished or not? Have anyone seen such case before? Any conclusions?

[ciml]

> In the old days

Sure, but the 'can have PR but not pass it on' thing has been around for at least a lear now.

> both are cached

Since freshbot started to update the cache, this hasn't been a reliable test for checking whether backlinks are counted by Google I'm afraid.

[moftary]

Both are cached, and the PR0 site has a backward link from the PR9 one.

I am wandering also because I have a similar experience, as my website is PR1 while it has many backward links from PR4 and PR5 websites!

[Stefan]

moftary, if it missed out on the last PR update, about a week or so ago, then it would still be PR0, (if it hasn't been online for very long). Even though we saw a PR update recently, it would have been based on older data so it could have just not gotten its PR yet.

Wrt the PR passed from a page: it really depends on how many links there are on it. Google only counts a limited number of links on any one page, so if there are over a hundred, and the pertinent one is way down on the page, it could get no PR. If it's on a page with 80 links, it won't get much. A PR9 page will only make another page a PR8, (if there are no other backlinks to the page), if there are a very limited number of links on it, like under 3 or 5 or something.

[moftary]

A PR9 page will only make another page a PR8, (if there are no other backlinks to the page), if there are a very limited number of links on it, like under 3 or 5 or something.

and simply that's the case here, only seven links.
Very enough to raise the other website PR to at least PR7!

[antrat]

Perhaps Google has simply not, as yet, gotten around to passing on the PR. It can take many months.

[Gambit]

I have a link on an index page on a PR9, for the last two Google PR updates.

Neither mine, nor any of the other links, have increased in PR from it. There are only 14 outbound links on the index page of that site.

Usually I see PR increase in the 2nd Google PR update.