Whats the point of backlinks in a high pr/page

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Whats the point of backlinks in a high pr site, when the page you submit it to has 0 pr, rank and so on. What is the value there?
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  • Profile picture of the author smlover
    it's believed 1 backlink from PR5 = 100backlinks from PR0
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    • Profile picture of the author charliesheen
      Yes i know, but what I'm saying a backling from a underpage in a pr5 site, doesn't have pr5 value, its 0 right?
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      • Profile picture of the author smlover
        Originally Posted by charliesheen View Post

        Yes i know, but what I'm saying a backling from a underpage in a pr5 site, doesn't have pr5 value, its 0 right?
        you have to differentiate the PR domain and PR url. Which is both of them important. If a site got PR domain 9 and PR url 5 = very nice backlinks!
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        • Profile picture of the author dburk
          Hi charliesheen,

          Sites do not have PR. PR is assigned to the individual URL.

          If you place a backlink on a page that happens to be on a website that has a homepage PR of PR5, it does not mean you have a PR5 backlink. PR is a page level value. So your backlink value is weighted by the PR of the "page" where it is placed. The homepage PR has absolutely no effect on the backlink value at all.

          While it is true that a page on a website that has a high homepage PR often does end up more valuable, it is also true that it often does not. It really depends on how much PR that is passed to the page. That PR can come from anywhere on the World Wide Web, it has nothing at all to do with the homepage PR unless that homepage directly links to the page where you have you backlink placed.

          Having said that, you cannot see the real current PageRank score. The toolbar PR is exported every few months (or longer) and shows you a snapshot of what the PR was at the export date. The current "real" PR cannot be seen and you can only guess at it's value. Unless a page has been devalued due to web spam, or other trust factors, it will always have a PR greater than 0. At one point new pages were assigned a PR of 0.15, that may have changed slightly, but principle the remains.
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  • Profile picture of the author Aandice Austin
    google attach importance to website with high PR…
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    • Profile picture of the author mrfusion
      While the higher PR from the TLD won't get passed, there is trust from the root domain which gets passed to its pages which will get passed to your backlink.
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      • Profile picture of the author dburk
        Originally Posted by Aandice Austin View Post

        google attach importance to website with high PR...
        Hi Aandice,

        Google doesn't attach any importance to websites, they don't index websites, they index individual web pages.

        Originally Posted by mrfusion View Post

        While the higher PR from the TLD won't get passed, there is trust from the root domain which gets passed to its pages which will get passed to your backlink.
        Hi mrfusion,

        TLDs don't have PR, nor does root domains have trust. Search Engines index and rank individual web documents, not TLDs or domains. PR and trust values are assigned to the individual URLs, not TLDs or domains.
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