High PR but Low Link Value?

13 years ago

Just because the page is of a certain PR that doesn't mean its actual trust rank is that high, and it doesn't mean you get a lot of juice from that. Pages that are saturated in links are of very little to no value.

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BenoitT

13 years ago

Maybe it doesn't have a lot of weight because both site have a link toward the other site. Don't analyze PR and backlinks too much you will end up losing a lot of time. It can also be because they other website isn't relevant enough.

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sndrsndv

13 years ago

i wouldnt take notice of the link value in spyglass only google knows the true value of links. Try and get all the high pr links your competitor has and you will more then likely rank above them with time

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candem

12 years ago

SEO Spyglass basically uses a "Pagerank / no of links formula". So they heavily discount links from high PR pages that have many outgoing links. In this formula a link from a PR2 with only one outgoing link is worth more than a link from a PR6 with six outgoing links.

Most SEO's would disagree with this and most of us tend to ignore the Link Value.

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krishacetravison

12 years ago

Don't be bothered by the numbers shown to you...If you have a chance to get link juice from those links, go and get them.

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BenJackson

12 years ago

PageRank passed through a link =

[(PageRank -10%) / Total number of links (IBL & OBL)]

= PR or "link value" passed through your link

P.S. There are many other metrics for evaluating a link.

Originally Posted by Knowledge Kick

Hey Guys,

I've been lurking around the forums for awhile now and finally decided to jump in. I've been using SEO Spyglass to check out my competitors backlinks. I really want to jump to the top for these certain keywords. While going through their backlinks I noticed that one of the pages that links to them has a PR4 from a site with PR6. From that, I thought the link should hold a lot of weight but under the "Link Value" column there is only a value of .001. Does that seem right to you?

Under "Links Back" it says YES by the way so I don't think it's a NoFollow.

Any input on this?

Thanks in advance!

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artion

12 years ago

You can check some others competitors backlinks and choose to use only dofollow they have

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koreSEO

12 years ago

try getting web 2.0 backlinks

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prcys

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Knowledge Kick

Hey Guys,

I've been lurking around the forums for awhile now and finally decided to jump in. I've been using SEO Spyglass to check out my competitors backlinks. I really want to jump to the top for these certain keywords. While going through their backlinks I noticed that one of the pages that links to them has a PR4 from a site with PR6. From that, I thought the link should hold a lot of weight but under the "Link Value" column there is only a value of .001. Does that seem right to you?

Under "Links Back" it says YES by the way so I don't think it's a NoFollow.

Any input on this?

Thanks in advance!

If you get the backlinks from the high pr site then it does not mean that you will get the link juice for your site of the root domain pr , No. But you will get the link weightage of the page that from where you have get that backlink as each page has the separate value in every site.

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Matt Broody

12 years ago

You need pages with actual high pr and low OBL

like here

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dadamson 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Matt Broody

You need pages with actual high pr and low OBL

^This.

You also gotta remember than PR is not everything, it is updated real-time to Google internally but we only get updated to the status every few months, so the PR could be long-gone but still showing up in the tools.

Just get the links and move one, no reason to stress over whether to pursue or not.
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RevSEO

12 years ago

PageRank is a very important factor when deciding backlinks.
It's the same reason that when you really look at the top SERP results
you'll see a strong correlation of high PageRank links.

If PageRank wasn't important you can bet your butt that there
wouldn't bee so many link vendors and services that are based
on PageRank. Let's face it, the secret would be out of the bag by
now especially this far into the SEO "game".

Dadamson is right though, PageRank shown by the toolbar is old.
Although there was recently an update a few weeks ago so it isn't
that old.

If you are equating what type of links to get, don't waste your time
with lower quality Web 2.0, non-existant PR type of links. Go for the
high PageRank links every time.