Link page with high PR vs. home page with high PR

Does it matter if the link page has high PR?

[jtmoney77]

I noticed some sites home page have a high PR (we'll say 7), but the links page has a low PR (we'll say 3).

How much influence will your link have on this site? I usually look for their link.htm page to have a high PR as well. Sometimes Im not sure if I should trade cuz their link page is 0 PR even though their home page is PR7.

One of my links pages is a PR4, but my other page is a PR1. How did I get one so much higher than the other?

Please give me some advice....

Thanks,
Jeremy

[DaveAtIFG]

Here's my advice:
1. Build your site to benefit your users and link accordingly.
2. Do a search for "page rank explained" and learn some basics.
3. Read in the Google News forum to learn about how Google handles PR presently.
4. There are many excellent discussions about developing and exchanging links in this forum already. Do some searching.

Perhaps some of our regulars will share links to the discussions they've found most useful.

[elklabone]

jtmoney,

You're looking for nice pagerank on the page where the link to your site is located.

Of course, PageRank tends to drop as you travel downward in a site, because most of us like to get links to our homepage.

For example, our site has PR6. Our links page has PR5, and the individual links pages have a PR4. If you exchange links with me, you'll get your share of the PR4, and not the PR6.

It's natural for a links page to have a lower PR than the homepage. However, you're always looking for the best link you can find.

[trillianjedi]

PR is page-based, not site based. It is calculated solely on an incoming links basis to each page.

The more incoming PR, the more PR the receiving page will have.

If you have one page on your website that lots of people link to, it's therefore likely to have a higher PR than other pages within the same site.

Think pages with google, not sites.

You can distribute the higher PR to lower PR pages by linking to those pages from the higher PR page.

PR has less influence at the lower end of the scale (<PR6) than it used to.

A high PR6 and PR7 and up still do seem to have some influence in the SERPS. PR8 and above definitely has a major impact.

The logarithmic scale knob got tweaked a few months ago.

TJ

[jtmoney77]

So what everyone is saying is:
Don't bother trading links with someone if their PR on the link page is low even if their home page is high. I have my other sites on my primary link page because it is a much higher PR than my secondary ones.

Thanks....

[mfishy]

If your only concern is PR, there really is no need to waste time trading links at all. Once can achieve their desired PR pretty easily. Most trade links for other "scoring" benefits.