Does Pagerank flow only through External links?

[Buyseech]

Hi there,

I am wondering if pagerank juice flows out only via external links.

Lets take an ezine article for example. All the links on the site are targeted on the same domain ezinearticles.com/blalbabla except for my link in the article.

The ezine article is PR3 ... if the only link is to my homepage...what does that mean in terms of PR "power" ... what fraction/percentage/amount of it can I await?

I know the whole PR area is very loosie goosie and noone knows anything for certian but still...any ideas?

Thank you.

[paulgl]

Originally Posted by Buyseech

The ezine article is PR3 ... if the only link is to my homepage...what does that mean in terms of PR "power" ... what fraction/percentage/amount of it can I await?

But on an EZA article page, your link is with over 50.

PR gets watered down in direct proportion to how many links are on it.

You have a PR3 page, one link, theoretically would get most of the PR3 passed.
If there are 50, well theoretically 3/50 for each link.

But links count for more than just PR. There is authority and relevance.
Which might be better than PR in and of itself.

PR flows to internal and external links the same, all things being equal,
and if google counts them.

Paul

[Buyseech]

Originally Posted by paulgl

PR flows to internal and external links the same, all things being equal,
and if google counts them.

Paul

This part was a mistery to me. It wouldnt make sense if it only flowed via external links. Cause stuff like Ezine or Hubpages would be "the bomb".