Google Page Rank within Forums

[spectacularstuff]

I posted this as a reply to someone in another part however I would like to try this.....

This link shows proof that the statcounter forums pass PR to websites as www.webado.com at this time has a PR of a 4. The only way that this website is getting that PR of a 4 is through the statcounter forums www.webado.com&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&filter=0] (http://www.google.com/search?q=link:Click Here[/b]

We all know that if a website links to another website PR is passed from that website to others..... depending on a few factors

We also know that each webpage is independant of the other webpages.
We also know that Statcounter forum pages are a PR4

Look at the chart (http://www.sitepronews.com/pagerank.html)

According to that chart, we would roughly need 556 PR6 website pages linking to this 1 forum page in order to boost this one page up to a PR8.

If your link is included on this page this will pass back to you, if your link is included on the next page you still get PR which will probably be a 7......

Do you think it is worth the test?

What are your thoughts? Anyone?

I am personally going to create a dedicated category links page just for statcounter forum posts.

[robinev]

This is a frequently debated topic on WebProWorld (http://www.webproworld.com/forum.php) and other search-engine discussion forums. I don't see much of a consensus on it. Some folks insist that forum sigs make a huge difference while others insist that Google discounts the importance.

I won't be participating in it, but your test is somewhat unique since you'd be trying to raise the PR of the forum page in an attempt to raise the value of your sig link on this page.

Maybe that could work with a very popular forum, but an unusual linking pattern like that would raise red flags in Google's indexing algorithms.

But hey, why not use the low-value forum link at least occasionally:
-- Robin
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[spectacularstuff]

It is not the sig that matters.... it is the PR for that particular forum page.... then if you have a link on that page, PR is passed from that page to your website..... If there is no PR to pass then it does not help... however since we have proof that Google does walk these forums, especially if you add it onto their crawl list......

This what we know.... we know the more website links to a specific page will raise that pages PR.
We also know approximately how many links to that page it will take to raise the PR of that page.
We also know that they higher that specific page is in PR the higher the PR that page is...... and the more PR that page passes on to the other pages it links to....

I think that is pretty self explanatory.

:D

[robinev]

I think that is pretty self explanatory.

If it were self-explanatory, then you wouldn't have to devote so many words to explaining it, now would you?

I'd regard this as an interesting game if it were done under controlled circumstances. The situation you've described as your test is not adequately controlled to provide any kind of answer.

But there are issues beyond that. For one thing, PageRank doesn't make all that much difference anymore. It was an interesting academic theory when it was proposed. It worked adequately when was first implemented. But it's subject to manipulation. And it has been manipulated so grossly that Google seems to have wisely decided to scale back its importance in SERP placement.

--
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[spectacularstuff]

Yes, I do agree with the importance on the SERP's however it is still in the equation for placement. Every little bit helps.

I explained it for the people that do not understand PR however; for someone as yourself that does have a grasp, I believe it is pretty much self explanatory.