A matter of topic sensitive page rank

Now and the future

[designhaus]

Here is the example.

Site A = PR 5
Site A has a total of 525 inbound links, 233 are recognised by Google. The google backlinks contain 2 PR 6 links, 3 PR 5 links and the rest PR 4 backlinks.

Site B = PR 6
Site B has a total of 195 inbound links, 110 are recognised by Google. The google backlinks contain 1 PR 6 link and the rest PR 4 backlinks.

After hours on the net trying to work with PR and get quality sites in the loop I was dumbfounded by the above. My belief has always been that you gain an average of the quality inbound links to form your PR.

How can this be, perhaps PR is more topic sensitive than I imagined? Anyone else seen similar examples or feels the same way.

[Pikin_It_Up]

Yeah, I've had a similiar experience with two sites. One site has a link on the front page of a pr6.

That has a PR3

The other site has a few links from the odd PR4.

That site has a PR4.

The sites have related content but the first site has a hell of a lot more content that the second.

I'm waiting for the next PR update to see what happend.

In your case...

It's weird. Not only is Google producing some strange SERP's but it also seems to be giving out some odd PR.

Anyone else had strange experiences with PR recently?

[glengara]

Designhaus, another thing to compare would be which has the higher number of the targeted KWs in their links anchor text.

[Pikin_It_Up]

I didn't realise that targeted KW's would actually increase PR. I just thought it would influence your SERP's results.

[glengara]

You're right, I picked up on ranking for some reason ;-)

Mind you, any topic sensitivity would also only show in ranking ....

[Pikin_It_Up]

If the content on the site was related, Right?

[steveb]

You shouldn't be dumbfounded. The one PR6 link could be better than the other sites links put together. All PR6's are not equal. Some are much better than others, and also the amount of outgoing links from the pages can make the value of the links very different.

In other words, the above information alone doesn't tell you much.

[designhaus]

steveb, if i understand you correctly, you are saying that the PR6 (which is from DMOZ of all places) may be of better quality than the other PR6.

Are you suggesting this could be determined by the fact that the higher PR6 could have 10 other PR6 sites linking to it. While the lower PR6 site only has one or two PR6 links in.

[steveb]

To oversimplify it PR6 could be PR6.1 or PR6.9, both show as PR6. Look at the linking to the PR6 pages and see what you can see. Some PR6 pages, especialy in a Directory, could be the result of a single link from a PR7, while other PR6's could have a link from a PR7 and several links from other PR6's.

[designhaus]

thanks steve. makes sense!