text links on a few high PR sites or many low PR sites?

[duckxtales]

text links on a few high PR sites or many low PR sites?

Me and my friend were discussing about SEO and was wondering what is better to increase your rankings in SERPs. have your link on many low PR4-6 sites or just a few on PR7-8 sites?

many as in over 10,000 pages and a few as in 1-10 pages.

thanks...

[netguy]

>>many low PR4-6 sites or just a few on PR7-8 sites?

Ideally, both. But if you have to choose one group or the other, a few PR7-8 links will generally pull much more than a bunch of smaller PR sites.

Steve

[glengara]

*many low PR4-6 sites or just a few on PR7-8 sites?*

If they were free links with "click here" type anchor text, the latter; if they were bought/reciprocals with "proper" anchor text, the former.

[hugo_guzman]

The determining factor (in terms of SERPs boost) should be relevance. In a hypothetical situation were pricing is equal, if you have a PR 8 that has extreme symantic relevance compared to a dozen of PR 6s with only marginal symantic relevance I would go with the PR 8. On the flip side, if the PR 8 is from a general interest site, but the dozen PR 6s are all from "niche" sites in your industry than go with the PR 6s.

If relevance factors are also equal, than my best advice is to go with your gut, or somehow try to get a blend of both.

[Powdork]

If they are all coming from one source (regardless of how many domains) then the risk factor may not be an issue. But if you are planning on getting them from several or many sources then the many links lower PR would be less risky just because of diversification. Your high PR links may suddenly not be able to pass their PR to you. Which would bring the most traffic?

<added>I'm not saying risk isn't a factor, just that it would be the same for each choice</added>

[BigDave]

Impossible to answer accurately as asked. There is not enough information. Not to mention that it is a totally unrealistic situation.

You can't even say "everything else being equal" because you might get a different response depending what those different equal things are.

If you are competing in a field with recognised Authority sites, and those high PR links are from the authority and expert sites, then those particular links would prbably be worth more than the mass of lower PR links.

On the other hand, if you are in a field that competes largely on anchor text, with no real authorities, then that mass of lower PR links will be more important.

Personally, if given the choice, I would go for the high PR links for my sites. But that is only because I get hundreds of new low PR links each month already. And every time I have picked up a PR7 link I have seen an immediate large jump in traffic.

[dmedia]

The few high PRs would be my choice. The "bump" in passed PR can really be dramatic, and I have a hunch that links form high PR sites can force botcrawls on the linked-to sites as well. Frequent and deep crawls can be what keeps you high in the serps.

Also, I've found that if you have a site worth linking to, the initial bump from the few high quality/PR links will bring in natural organic links from blogs, etc. That'll make the SEs happy in the long run.

Well .. this really is a big topic that could iterate over days and days .. the "formula" for hitting the sweet spot in terms of link balance depends in large part on the goals and nature of the project.