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I am trying to promote my web site and I have read here and heard from others that I have to gather links from as many websites as I can with relevant content...
OK fair enough...
On my journey towards a high PR I came across a web site with PR6 and it has one link... from a Site with PR7. Then... I came across another site with PR6 and 2500 links... My question is What is best? To have 1 link from a high ranked site or many from low ranked sites... Doesn't really make sense that if I have 1 link from a high Ranked site I get the same as if I have 2500 from a bit lower ranked sites... or?
Then I start thinking... Maybe it pulls me down to have links from lower ranked sites... Is this true?
/Johan
1) The PR of those sites may rise over time, with increasing benefit of those links
2) Your PR is not dependent on a single link, so is not so much at risk from PR fluctuation of the other site, or the site owner doubling the number of links on the page you're linked from.
3) Links are about traffic as well as PR. PR doesn't correlate particularly well with traffic, so a low PR link may bring more traffic than a high one.
The most important thing about links is for them to be between related sites - that helps with getting targeted traffic as well as possibly some theming effect, although no-one's really sure on that one.
Oh, and no link can 'pull you down', but if the link is from a PR1 page with 250 links on the same page, it's not going to boost your PR much.
It's like getting donations - every little helps, but which is better - one $10,000 donation or a thousand $10 donations? In the latter case, your overall funds are not much affected if one person pulls out, or decides to split his donation between two causes. You're probably more famous if you can attract a thousand small donations rather than one big one.
:)
If you have _many_ incoming links to a page you will also have some degree of added relevance for many different search terms that are on the pages that link to you. This may in most cases be of little help. (A raise from #217 to #165 for a vaguely relevant search term hardly makes any substantial difference for your website.) But in some other cases it may lift your page over the horizon for a relevant search term that you had not thought of really targetting.
PR alone doesnt increase your rankings. Be careful you dont confuse "Page Rank" as meaning where your page is ranked in the search results.
While the toolbar only shows integers, your actual pageRank may be 6.999... There's no way of knowing how they round those numbers off for display in the toolbar (maybe GoogleGuy will tell us :) .
Regardless of that - I'd rather have the 2500 links.
'twas a time when sites were interlinked because they had some innate value to the person doing the linking...
'twas a time when a person could spend hours surfing from site to site, in the end getting lost and not even remembering how, or why, they ended up where they were...
Sites with value were linked to more often. This was the theoretical underpinning of the concept of Page Rank.
Now links are commodities to be traded and sold. Page Rank is something that is hoarded via JS, CGI and other tricks.
Links have been devalued as they have been commercialized. They lay hidden on obscure pages containing vast lists of unrelated links with carefully crafted anchor text. They generate significant amounts of unsolicited emails asking for reciprocal links.
The romantic in me thinks you should give and recieve links based on the value of the site(s) information.
The realist in me thinks you should get that one PR7 link, AND the 2500 lesser ones :)
WBF
