Misleading Page Rank

What's the skinny on this backlinking issue?

[dj1cincy]

Has anyone else ever noticed that the internal pages of most website directories have a lower Page Rank than the main index page? In regard to submitting your website to one of these pages, here's the question.

If the main page of the directory is a PR6, but the page you will appear on once your website has been accepted by the directory is a PR2, will you be credited with a backlink rating of a PR6 or a PR2?

Dan

[Quadrille]

Clue 1: It's page rank, not site rank.

Clue 2: It's always AT LEAST three months out of date, so there's no point in sweating it either way.

[hercules]

clue 2 I disagree with.

The important things are how much pagerank is on the page and how many links are there. For example if both pages are related to you site. You should look athe pagerank AND the number of outgoing links. If one page has PR4 and 1 outgoing link and a other page PR 6 but 6 outgoing links i'd choose the PR4 page

[martinibuster]

clue 2 I disagree with.

Hm. The Google Toolbar PR is updated once every three months. What is there to disagree with? The green display on the toolbar is stale, a snapshot from the past. It does not display the current Toolbar PageRank.

Re the OP, don't worry about the PR. Check for quality. PageRank does not indicate the quality of the backlinks of the site you're obtaining links from. The toolbar is not an SEO tool, just as a nail clipper isn't a tool for trimming your hedges.

Some may say that you're dead in the water without PR 4 because nobody wants to exchange links with you. But in my opinion, anyone who cares about your PR is likely in a bad neighborhood and you're better off without them.

[Quadrille]

Some may say that you're dead in the water without PR 4 because nobody wants to exchange links with you. But in my opinion, anyone who cares about your PR is likely in a bad neighborhood and you're better off without them.

Amen to that!

[Halfdeck]

A link from a quality directory may be looked at as a link from an expert page or a hub page. If that page links out to many high quality sites, then you may benefit from that in the form of a higher authority score.

BTW, stating the obvious, but a link from a TBPR 6 page with 6 links on it does not equal a link from a TBPR 1 page with 1 outbound link.

[Quadrille]

Toolbar PR is no more a measure of a site's worth than hanging a piece of string outside the window to see if it's raining.

Those who choose to live by TBPR are destined to die by TBPR