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[Coober]

Which PR 'counts':
Is it the page rank of the acutal page that contains the link, for example links.htm (with a page rank of 2), or the page rank of the site's home page (index.htm - with a page rank of 6)?

Thanks,

Coober

[robbinsr]

In reality, neither really count since us mere mortals can only measure a page's PR from the Google toolbar, which naturally doesn't reflect the ranking given it by the other two major S.E. (Yahoo! and MSN) plus it is not updated in real time like their search indexes are, so the number shown is often woefully out of date. Besides, any link from any other site has value to you, especially if it brings in on-topic traffic which you can then convert. Other important things to consider are whether that site is considered an expert in your field by the S.E., whether its low PR is due to it being sandboxed and quarantined and not due to the future measurable quality of its pages, how long that link will remain there, can you get the anchor text you want for your link, how many other links are there on that page also, will your link be straight html, etcetera. Hope this helps!

[Jill]

The page your link is on is the one that has the ability to confer PageRank and link popularity to your site. It makes no difference what the home page's PR is if the page you're linked from is something completely different.

That said, you're looking at the wrong measurement completely as none of that will help your site get targeted search engine traffic and sales.