Do links from your own blog count?

[ichthyous]

Hi there, I have installed a Wordpress blog on my site which I intend to develop into a combined photoblog and a place which offers tips and tutorials. Ultimately I would like to be able to link to other pages on my site which are outside of the blog and boost their pagerank if possible.I have a few questions about this strategy:

1) do blog post links from a blog installed in your own domain carry less weight than external posts?
2) If I installed the blog under another domain which is hosted on my server (same IP address) will the links carry more weight?
3) If I installed the blog under on another domain AND another IP address would the links back to my main site carry more weight and be seen as external?

Thanks for any insight

[tedster]

At a guess, all three scenarios will see some link influence pass - but dampened compared to a link from a completely independent and unaffiliated domain. #3 might fly "under the radar" for a bit, but probably not for too long. The linking profile will probably become obvious as soon as you try to leverage it in any serious way.

There are many scenarios and patented ranking approaches where many liinks from domain A to domain B are seen as one link, total. Anchor text can still be helpful, and I think some PR influence may also be there, but with a lid on it.

[ichthyous]

Hmm ok, so I am wondering how so many sites have high PR for interior pages even though I don't see any appreciable inbound links to those pages except from other pages on their own site. My own site has all it's IBLs hitting the domain (not the index page) and all pages are linked in a 'inverted pyramid' with every page hitting the domain, thematically related pages hitting the category, and the lowest level pages not having many links in. In other words the higher up the directory you go the more pages link in. Some categories have external IBLs, but not many at all. I have been waiting for the PR to seep down to the category pages at least but it hasn't happened at all. Only my domain shows any PR. Seeing that it's nearly impossible to get quality links anymore, and the forums and blog posts mostly tag their links with "nofollow" where does one get IBLs to lower level pages except from other internal pages? Perhaps this is better topic for link development forum...I am most interested in how Google passes PR though. Thanks

[ALbino]

How long have you had your site? PR is definitely in an organized hierarchy based on link structure. It certainly is with my site anyway. If your site is still fairly new then this might not be reflected yet.

[ichthyous]

The site was up for almost five years and has a PR 4. I just replaced the old site with a new one, and that's been up for about three weeks now. The site is being indexed fine, and gogglebot seems to be indexing down to about three levels. I definitely need more links coming in, but I am surprised that no PR has trickled down at all from the home page.

[ALbino]

Three weeks is not nearly enough time, try three months instead. If it still hasn't trickled down then you might have a problem.

[ichthyous]

Hmm, since when does PR calculation take so long? I would think that on the next update it would start to show. Perhaps the problem is that my site is only a PR 4, and anything under a 5 seems to be put on the back burner these days. It's a snowball effect...since nobody finds you, nobody links to you...if they don't link you just stagnate.

[ALbino]

Nothing on my site newer than like August 1st has any toolbar PR. They're all indexed, in the SERPs and sending traffic, they just have 0 toolbar PR. That doesn't mean they don't have actual PR, just that the TBPR hasn't been updated. Don't sweat it.

[tedster]

Google is re-calculating PR every day to create the SERPs. But that new PR stays invisible to us non-googlers, and is only exported to the toolbar about 4 times a year. It's still influencing the rankings, you just can't see what it is, or how it is "trickling down".