Link PR value?

[digicam]

Hi, I can get a link from a PR5 site which is all well and good - I wrote an article on their product.

I then noticed that their links page is PR0.

If I do get a link from their Links page back to me then do I just get the zero benefit of the PR0 page link?

cheers

[dupac]

You will get some benefit, but not the same if they have your link on their home page.

[digicam]

Thanks for the reply, when I look at their other pages none have PR other than the homepage - interesing for a PR5 home page surely?

[Event_King]

Maybe it just hasn't been 'designed' to be spiderable?

I had a few main pages done like that and I now have Pagerank on those pages that I didn't get before.

[digicam]

Hi, still wondering about this, all their site url pages are in the form.

http://www.example.com/412 or 356

just numbers, no extensions

any comments? is this spiderable at all?

cheers

[edited by: martinibuster at 6:42 pm (utc) on Nov. 13, 2005]
[edit reason] fixed url [/edit]

[watercrazed]

They could be using some kind of server side rewrite to generate the url, it is pretty common. It does sound like the rest of their site is not spiderable or does not rank for some reason it is pretty common in dymanic websites that are not specifically designed to SEO well.

The link is probably not doing you much good from a google ranking point of view. If you can check your traffic logs and see if you are getting traffic from it.

[spiral]

Check the cache on their links page (use Google's "cached snapshot of page" feature in the toolbar). No cache = no good.

[digicam]

Many thanks, that is good advice, I have looked at ther cached page and it is there so I will go ahead.

[MrFishGuy]

If you can get a link from a site, it's always good. Whether it's a PR0 or a PR8, every link helps.

Does this website use flash buttons to link the pages? Alot of websites use flash buttons because they look good, but Search engines can't index links from flash.

[digicam]

I will take a look for Flash.

The problem with link exchanges is there are so many different things to check for, from flash, noindex, javascript, nofollows, ect ect ect that at the end of the day I suppose you just have to submit the link request and go on trust - otherwise you spend way to much time on single sites.

cheers