Link PR - any effect on link text?

[glengara]

In a nut-shell, does the PR of a link effect the "value" of the anchor text?

With our preference for high PR links you'd swear it must but I've yet to see anyone actively espouse the theory, which is a bit odd as I'd see it as THE major factor in preferring a high PR link.

Any hunches?

[Miamacs]

I don't really get the question... you're supposedly already paying attention to anchor text anyway, right? So, high PageRank or not, the wording will be on-spot, all the time...

The words your highest quality inbounds use have more voting power, and that includes the relevancy calculations. Was that the question?

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[fishfinger]

It would be logical if the anchor 'boost' of a link was greater the higher the PR.

What I have seen when looking at IBLs for sites would also support this in my view.

[dailypress]

If I understand your question correctly, I would say yes anchor text on high PR websites have a higher effect and play a more important role.

[steveb]

As I understand the question, is the link text from a PR6 link weighted more than the link text from a PR3 link... I say definitely yes.

[glengara]

"..the link text from a PR6 link weighted more than the link text from a PR3 link."

Need to work on my question formulation :-)

OK, assuming anchor text IS weighted by PR, would it be detectable through the allinanchor results or would it be part of the secret sauce?

[comusher]

Yes, the PR and the text do go hand in hand! I got a PR3 to one of my inner pages for the phrase I want that page to rank for. That page jumped to page 1 of google that very week and has remained there.
As for the rest of the site, I did not see any benefit (though I am sure there was some to a degree). The bulk of the weight went to the inner page and only for that phrase.

[Philosopher]

I don't think it would be detectable through allinanchor etc. Google likes to do whatever it can to make our (SEOs) lives a little more difficult and that would be way to helpful to us. ;)

[glengara]

Well you'd notice if pages were ranking substantially better than their allinanchor results :-)