What is the quality of link from page with duplicated content?
CheeryFox
9:03 pm on Jun 7, 2007 (gmt 0)
Searching to get links for my new website, I found that many webmasters offer links from news aggregator websites in form of blogs. The content of these sites are news articles taken from several other sources, usually from well-known news agencies. Often such news aggregator website has descent PR. How does Google estimate quality of links from such sites? Will Google decrease value of such link, or not? Or may be Google totally disregard such inbound links when calculates PR?
tedster
9:35 pm on Jun 10, 2007 (gmt 0)
How Google weights various links is a secret formula (and one that they recently changed). One key factor is the PageRank of the actual URL where the link occurs - and that's not the same as the PageRank of the site's home page.
My guess is that the situation you described would still give weight to the link if the aggregator site is well trusted -- not the sources where they get their data, but the site itself.
