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I thought till now that PR is a measure of how high a site is in a Google query for a particular keyword.
Also, how are links and PR related? I understand that back-links are very important fort SERPs, and that some links have more value (higher PR I guess). I would guess that, if a site that has a hight PR for a keyword, uses the the same keyword to link to another site, the PR is passed on to the other site, making that link more valuable and increasing the position of the receiving site.
I am interested in this, as my site has high SERP for certain keywords. Does this mean we have high PR for these keywords?
I am also surprised because Google doesnt seem to pick up the links we have in our links section (verified by using the link: option in the query), while the page seems to be well indexed (because I can find find it when looking for just the link's text). It seems to me Google is ignoring the links we have. Why?
PR is not merely something that that resides on a page, but is passed between pages as well, dynamically.
PR is a global phenom, having nothing to do with semanitic topology of a site. A page does not have PR for a keyterm.
PR is very closely related to Link Popularity, but they are not the same thing.
LR (Local Rank) is a scoring methodology, widely suspected to have been implemented in the infamous Florida Update last November, which is associated with semantic topology, but no one knows just how this formula would work, other than being derived from Hilltop, Latent Semantic Indexing, and/or Kleinberg.
Google has never shown all the links it has indexed between sites.
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