Copyright tied to PR variable.

[Kurgano]

I tried looking this one up, it likely exists, but i dont know what terms to search for so...

scenario: I offer downloadable software or script or templates etc. On that internet viewable code is my copyright at the bottom with a link back to my site. I have no control over the type of site who will use my software, or its quality, so can I add some code that removes the link back to my site if page PR is below say.. 2.

PR1 and PR0 pages would simply display copyright without link.

It can be done but... should it? and where to start?

[henry0]

I respectfully disagree; why will you make a case against a site ranking low?
Is the ranking an IQ factor?
Plus remember PR comes only out of G so what about the other guys?
Further ranking is only a tiny part of the popularity equation.
Here is a scenario for you: Foo inc. just put together the greatest site in the world
It will take a while for them to get a decent PR so are they not worthy?
And last you will need somehow (but I am shooting in the dark) to analyze the result of a G bar, I do not think it could be done, but I am not in that field
Good luck!

[barns101]

There are webites that will tell you the PR of a given page, so I believe that it can be done. Have a look for Google APIs.

However, I agree with henry0 and recommend that you don't bother checking the PR and just inlcude the link every time.

[whoisgregg]

You'd be better off coding it to provide a different link "footprint" for each site (varying anchor text, surrounding text, coding style). A thousand identical footer links won't do you much good no matter the PR of the sites.

[Duskrider]

It can be done, but you'll have to code it so that the script queries G every time the page is loaded to check for the PR. I've done something similar. It was only to display the PR of the page, not to edit parts of the page due to PR as you're talking about, but once you have the PR number you can do whatever you want. That's where you want to start looking... how to get the PR of a page using php. There are a few scripts out there for it.

I would recommend, as others have, that you don't take the link away if the PR is low however, as there's no real penalty for being linked to by a low PR page. It's fairly sad to me that links now are more about getting PR transferred than getting people to click on them for traffic, but that's another thread.

If you're truly worried about low PR site links then you can simply add a nofollow ref to your links IF the PR turns out to be below your threshold. That way you'll always have the link there for people to click, but Google won't count it if the PR is low. Changing up the link text isn't a bad idea either, the more variations you have the better.

Sounds like a whole lotta work for nuthin' if you ask me though. :)

[edited by: Duskrider at 2:18 pm (utc) on June 8, 2007]

[Kurgano]

It WOULD be a ton of work, knowing me i'd want to add extra code so that cookies remembers if the query has been run on a site recently (google would hate the constant queries if I didn't i'm sure).

The benefit to the user? none. slower load times.

But as to the question "why?"

well, even if its only big G who determines PR, unfortunately internet advertising revenue is implicitly tied to that number for a LOT of ad companies. That number influences people too to a smaller degree. With this type of site, one that offers free downloads that eat bandwidth in large amounts, its hard to foot the bill.

The link back is a vote for my site. If its coming from an adult site it hurts my pr at best. Doing this would help my site and my wallet. selfish huh?

An API is limited to a few hundred uses per day, this idea is officially sunk.