[neil0wen]

Does Google take base the importance of a backlink on the basis of the domain or a web page from that domain?

Obviously directories that have a PR rank of say 4 may have that for their index page but certainly not a sub directory, so is their any worth getting a link from a sub directory from a site?

[Gibbs]

neil0wen, on 20 July 2009 - 01:23 PM, said:

Does Google take base the importance of a backlink on the basis of the domain or a web page from that domain?

Obviously directories that have a PR rank of say 4 may have that for their index page but certainly not a sub directory, so is their any worth getting a link from a sub directory from a site?

PR (on each individual page) does matter. If your site is listed in a sub-directory that PR0 it's pretty much useless even if the main site is PR9.

Also a site with 1 backlink from a PR4 site could do better than a site with 1000 PR0 backlinks (those numbers are random but it should make sense).

Choose carefully and check the pagerank of where you're going to be listed (especially if you're paying).

[Martin Greenwood]

personally, and many SEM's agree with me, that the important factor of a backlink is the webpage it come from...
it doesnt really matter what the domain is, aslong as the link is relevant to your content and the page it comes from is relevant also..

for example, if you offer web design and SEO.. its pointless having a link in the middle of a webpage of content about taxation laws.. if you catch my drift..

[thefandango]

Although PR is an indicator, a backlink from a PR0 relevant page with good anchor text is not "pretty much useless". Have a look at PR, but relevancy is just as important.

[lazytycoon]

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for example, if you offer web design and SEO.. its pointless having a link in the middle of a webpage of content about taxation laws.. if you catch my drift..

No because I know someone who owns adulttoysuk and he is top for a lot of very high competition searches and he has proven that it doesnt matter where the link comes from it still matters.

A link should normally be, Relevant or Good PR or None of the previous. Nofollow, and unrelevant anchor text has a very important place in reducing the spammyness of your link profile, something which is important.

[Hafsoh]

thefandango, on 23 July 2009 - 12:00 PM, said:

Although PR is an indicator, a backlink from a PR0 relevant page with good anchor text is not "pretty much useless". Have a look at PR, but relevancy is just as important.

Exactly its not all about PR, the most important thing is that links you get are related, quality inbound links definitely will help to get higher SERP

[Gibbs]

thefandango, on 23 July 2009 - 12:00 PM, said:

Although PR is an indicator, a backlink from a PR0 relevant page with good anchor text is not "pretty much useless". Have a look at PR, but relevancy is just as important.

A backlink from a PR0 directory (which was being talked about) is "pretty much useless" if the sole purpose of it is for search engine performance. Directories are't really relevant contextually and Google devalues non-"authoritive" directories massively these days.

[david fernando]

Getting a link from that sort of directory on a page which have 0PR of no PR will definitely won't give you any back links. It may help the number of indexed pages in search engines i don't think that you will get any back link from these submissions.