Passing PageRank - can inbound links affect it?

[bhartzer]

I have a site that has a PR 6 on the main page. There is currently a PR8 linking to this page and it's been linking to it for a long time (at least 6 months). There is also to PR7 links and a bunch of others. I have been trying to figure out why the PR of this page is only a PR6.

Investigating further, I noticed that the PR8 page linking to my PR6 site has 341 inbound links and 1200 outbound links. So, there appears to not be very much PR available to pass on, thus it's not enough to bring my site higher than a PR6.

My question is this: If I increase the number of incoming links to that PR8 page will there be more PR to pass on to my site?

For example, if I take another site (or several other sites) and link to that PR8 page and add 2-3 thousand PR4 links to that PR8 page (this would reverse the negative links ratio), will there be more of the PR8 available to pass on to my PR6 page? Is this possible? Or would it be useless because there's just too many outgoing links on that PR8 page?

[steveb]

You would increase the PR microscopically.

It wouldn't make any difference. You are lucky to get any PR with that many outgoing links on a page... in fact, you probably are not getting much at all, since you say you also have PR7 links. Those PR7 links are probably more important to you.

[bhartzer]

Thanks steveb! It sounds like outgoing links are more important than incoming links to a page.