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How Does Page Rank Trickle Out

by William.Rowe
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Does anyone have a credible theory as to whether or not one gets any benefit from having a profile with a signature containing an href anchor to your site?

If the main site is PR8 and you have a signature with your URL on that site, what non-Zero PR can you possibly get?

If the main site has a forum, and you post on a thread with your link in one forum, what non-Zero PR can you possibly get?

If the main site is a blog, and you post a comment on a post with your anchor link in your comment, what non-Zero PR can you possibly get?

It seems to me that there can be a PR 8 blog site but individual posts may have PR 0. Similarly with forums.

Do anyone have a credible theory as to how a search engine such as Gogle would take a PR 8 site and give a post on that site with its comments due weight?

For example, warriorforum.com has PR 5. The WSO page has PR 4. A WSO offer has PR 0. Another site with a forum might have PR 0 for the main site, the forum part, and each thread. Is posting on either site going to be a PR 0 proposition? Or does Google give a post on a high PR site more juice than a post on a low PR page?

Fundamentally, I am asking is the posting of comments, signatures, and bios with anchors to your site just a waste of time?
#page #rank #trickle
  • Profile picture of the author BobJutsu
    Not a waste of time if you want people to see it, probably a waste if you are trying to build a links. As you have stated, correctly, PR is page specific, not site specific. So, different pages on the same site will have different page rank.

    If you want an interesting read, look up the Matt Cutts interview in which he talks about PR sculpting with no-follow for internal links. Basically, using the nofollow to control how the PR flows through your own site, so you can leach the PR from unimportant pages, and direct it to the more important pages, etc.

    Do anyone have a credible theory as to how a search engine such as Gogle would take a PR 8 site and give a post on that site with its comments due weight?
    Links...internal links included. You can bet a PR8 site has a bit of credibility and can pass plenty of juicy trustworthyness through linking to a story internally, no problem. You can also bet that a PR8 site gets a fair amount of traffic, and probably has plenty of folks sharing and linking to their post fairly quickly, and naturally.
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