Difficult Link Choice

Authority PR6 or PR6?

[johnser]

We've been offered 1 link from an internal page of a friendly site.

EG: We sell "red shoes", they explain the shoe manufacturing process. Their home page is also top 10 in SERPs for "shoes".

Page A has 1,200 links incl 200 .EDUs pointing at the page
Page B has 200 links incl 50 .EDUs pointing at the page
Both are PR6

Obviously Page A is more powerful but....
Page B mentions "shoes" 5 times whereas Page B talks about its machinery without ever mentioning "shoes".

Which page is going to help us rank better for "red shoes"?
J

[Maxnpaddy]

Personally I'd forget 'rank' and just think of it as targeted site. Page A looks more promising.....

[martinibuster]

My guess would be Page A, simply because it has more inbounds, more trustworthy sites, and likely more spiders crawling it.

[glengara]

Assuming those 50 Edu links are shoe rather than machinery related, I'd go for topicality and choose page B.

[johnser]

Thx folks

Many of the .EDUs link to both pages so no, the 50 links to Page B aren't any more "topical" GG.

My first opinion was go for Page B bacause of the "shoes" relevancy.
But then I thought the same as MB above from an IBL perspective....

Basically the Q is:

In link power terms, does a VERY trustworthy page A far outdo a "less" trustworthy page B despite B's content being slightly more relevant to my "red shoes" site?

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(In my original post above, I meant "...whereas Page A talks...")
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[glengara]

I suppose it depends where one sees relevance/topicality going, but with MCs' propensity to home in on off-topic links and the increasing use of "relevant" and "industry-specific" in the G guidelines, I'm sticking with the "weaker" page B ;-)

[JohnRoy]

You may see it as Page A linking to
2 shoes pages

Page B

Your URL

On the other hand, if Page B has 0 outbound links, and Page A has 40 outbound links - Your link on Page B might be more efficient.

[johnser]

Think I'll go with Page A based on it having lots more .EDUs pointing into it.

Will let you know how it goes..
J