PR7 vs PR8

Goatboy 14 years ago

Originally Posted by nouseforaname

Actually, I don't care about the traffic. What I just want is to get ranked. By the way thanks for the comments though, much appreciate it

The game is about traffic. Being ranked won't help you unless you have traffic. There are stories here every day where someone has managed to rank in the top 10 and has only a few daily visitors and can't figure out why.

I've had a single backlink contribute as much as 10% or more of daily traffic to one of my sites on more that one occasion, and this is target traffic; that means people who are interested in my product are finding me.

Too often IMers think that ranking high in the serps is the game ender. The fact is that traffic is what we all need and to get that traffic, we need to push every button we can. On a weekly basis, I receive traffic from my ezine articles, from my blog commenting backlinks and believe it or not from my social bookmarking. It's true that these sources only produce 10% or less of my total weekly traffic, but I still can't discount the importance of having people visit who are already sold on what I'm featuring.

High ranking in the serps is nice, but it's nicer if you can drag some targeted traffic along the way. So, if you have your choice, take the 7 first.
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Dexter007

14 years ago

Speaking broadly, I would differ from you and go for the PR-8 link. Not only will it increase the quality, it will also diversify your backlinks to different areas and it will look 'normal'. By the way, go for both of them.. Thats the best choice to make!

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tami6699

14 years ago

I think, both links are to expensive

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dburk

14 years ago

Hi nouseforaname,

Search engines rank web pages, not websites. The PR of the page where you place your backlinks is the only PR that matters (Websites aren't assigned PR only pages have PR). With that principle in mind the relevance of a website topic is not important, however the relevance of a webpage is paramount.

Much of the time we can make a page that we place our backlinks on relevant by including our targeted keyword as the anchor text. We can also influence the relevance of the page where we place our links by creating additional links to that page using our targeted keyword.

If you have the opportunity to get a link on a page that has PR 7 or 8 then you should definitely go for it. Which of those two are better can vary based on many different factors, including the total number of outbound links and how relevant you can make the backlink to your keyword.

Aside from the SEO benefit, of prime importance is the potential traffic. You are more likely to get direct link traffic from a relevant web page on a website that gets targeted traffic relevant to your targeted keyword. Without having more specific information on each link opportunity it would be hard to say for certain which would be better.

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DanielSanderson

14 years ago

Originally Posted by dburk

Hi nouseforaname,

Search engines rank web pages, not websites. The PR of the page where you place your backlinks is the only PR that matters (Websites aren't assigned PR only pages have PR).With that principle in mind the relevance of a website topic is not important, however the relevance of a webpage is paramount.

Much of the time we can make a page that we place our backlinks on relevant by including our targeted keyword as the anchor text. We can also influence the relevance of the page where we place our links by creating additional links to that page using our targeted keyword.

If you have the opportunity to get a link on a page that has PR 7 or 8 then you should definitely go for it. Which of those two are better can vary based on many different factors, including the total number of outbound links and how relevant you can make the backlink to your keyword.

Aside from the SEO benefit, of prime importance is the potential traffic. You are more likely to get direct link traffic from a relevant web page on a website that gets targeted traffic relevant to your targeted keyword. Without having more specific information on each link opportunity it would be hard to say for certain which would be better.

Finally, someone in the forum that talks sense

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VeitSchenk

14 years ago

although I certainly don't consider myself an authority on this, to my knowledge the PR of the home-page is relevant too.

all too often you see pages in the top 10 of Google with PR0 and hardly any backlinks with all the other pages with at least PR4.
but when you check the PR of the *home-page* of the PR0 page, you'll always find at least a PR4 or higher.

but of course in this case it's pretty much irrelevant what the PR of the home-page is *as long as the PR of the page where you get your link really is PR7 or 8*!

Veit

Originally Posted by dburk

Hi nouseforaname,

Search engines rank web pages, not websites. The PR of the page where you place your backlinks is the only PR that matters (Websites aren't assigned PR only pages have PR).With that principle in mind the relevance of a website topic is not important, however the relevance of a webpage is paramount.

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dburk

14 years ago

Originally Posted by VeitSchenk

although I certainly don't consider myself an authority on this, to my knowledge the PR of the home-page is relevant too.

all too often you see pages in the top 10 of Google with PR0 and hardly any backlinks with all the other pages with at least PR4.
but when you check the PR of the *home-page* of the PR0 page, you'll always find at least a PR4 or higher.

but of course in this case it's pretty much irrelevant what the PR of the home-page is *as long as the PR of the page where you get your link really is PR7 or 8*!

Veit

Hi Veit,

Actually, the PR of any page that links to that page is relevant, as long as the linking page is relevant to your targeted keyword. This is true regardless of which domain the link is coming from.

Search engines look at the "web" that your page is contained within to determine your page's relevancy score not the website. Your "web" is made up of all the pages that link to your page as well as all the pages that you link out to. Those pages could be all within your own website but they could also all be pages to and from other websites. Search engines don't care about the websites, just the web pages.

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tami6699

14 years ago

But PR didn't say, that the site has "potential" traffic...

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tami6699

14 years ago

Fact is:

Webpage A with PR 5 Link is more "worth" as the "same" Link from a Webpage with PR4/3/2/1/0.

If the webpages are the "same" with same niche, same numer of: links, backlinks etc.

So, but we know, there aren't exist "same" webpages like this...so don't look only on PR, but its not fact, that PR is irrelevant.

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InternetMarketingIQ

14 years ago

Google is just software!!!

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dedicated

14 years ago

OP mentioned that he wanted to rank in SERP, so from the algorithm perspective, given the same conditions (anchor text, outbound links, etc) the PR8 is stronger than the PR7. There are plenty of high PR sites that are not completely relevant, such as Yahoo Directory, that lend a lot credibility and link juice to your page.

The traffic argument can be calculated as well. Do an estimation of the traffic you'd receive from the PR7 site + the SERP boost versus conservatively zero traffic from the PR8 site + its SERP boost. If we're talking about a significant number of searches for that anchor text, even one ranking boost could overcome that.

Without any details, only the OP can determine the traffic vs link juice tradeoff, but from a pure SERP perspective, the PR8 wins hands down.

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Ian2008

14 years ago

I would choose the PR 7 from a relevant site in my niche.

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nettech

14 years ago

Quality over Quantaty, thats my motto!

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firstdandy

14 years ago

I will try both if I can and determine which one is the best for me. I think You can see how better you rank in google for each PR.

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rogerbauer

14 years ago

I agree with Goatboy ... TARGETED traffic trumps ordinary traffic. Ordinary traffic trumps a high ranking if the high ranking produces very few visitors or (better yet) people who ring the register.

PR7 in a related niche outweighs a PR8 in an unrelated niche.

My $0.02 for what it's worth.

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