Page Rank of Backlinks

[Silent_Bob]

Just a quick question folks -

When talking about the PR of the backlinks to a site, does that refer to:

1) the pr of the website (i.e. homepage - www.widgets.com) that links to you

or

2) the pr of the exact page that links to you (e.g. www.widgets.com/links23.html)?

For instance, if I was to list one of my sites on Joe Ant - Joe Ant has a pr of 6, but the category for my site only has a pr of 1. Therefore, if it was the page rank of the category page that mattered to google, surely this wouldn't be a particularly valuable link to have in my efforts to boost my google rankings?

[Sharper]

In any published version of the pagerank stuff, only pages have it, sites don't, so it'd be the exact page that links to you.

(Yeah, you could talk about the average PR of all pages in a site, or the total PR of all pages in a site, or the highest PR page in a site, but that isn't useful for this particular question.)

[benc007]

If I get PR7 pages to link to me and their content is totally irrelevant to my site, would this still help boost my PR and SERPS? Any suggestions or thoughts?

[buckworks]

Yes, it would help, if you could talk them into it, but I bet the site didn't get to PR7 by linking to irrelevant content.