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raymor · 10-09-2011, 07:39 AM

All the experts I tasked to, the ones who get results versus talk, say different IPs, whois, etc. is a waste of time.

Let's consider the simplest case of a single domain with thousands of pages, all of which link to to one page. Think geocities, with thousands of pages all linking to the geocities home page. What those links are "claiming" is that the home page is the most important of all the pages. That claim is true! So Google had no need to weed that out. The PR algorithm, working as it normally does, just learns which of your pages is the main page.

Without incoming links from sites with PR, your feeder pages have little PR to pass, so there is no problem that Google needs to solve by looking at IPs.

The value of a link for PR is dependent on two numbers - the PR of the page doing the linking, and the number of links on the page. For example, if a page has a raw PR score of 1000, that's 1000 PR points it wil pass to it's links. If the page has 10 links, each gets 1/10th of the PR, or 100 raw PR points.

10-09-2011, 07:39 AM
raymor Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 3,745	All the experts I tasked to, the ones who get results versus talk, say different IPs, whois, etc. is a waste of time. Let's consider the simplest case of a single domain with thousands of pages, all of which link to to one page. Think geocities, with thousands of pages all linking to the geocities home page. What those links are "claiming" is that the home page is the most important of all the pages. That claim is true! So Google had no need to weed that out. The PR algorithm, working as it normally does, just learns which of your pages is the main page. Without incoming links from sites with PR, your feeder pages have little PR to pass, so there is no problem that Google needs to solve by looking at IPs. The value of a link for PR is dependent on two numbers - the PR of the page doing the linking, and the number of links on the page. For example, if a page has a raw PR score of 1000, that's 1000 PR points it wil pass to it's links. If the page has 10 links, each gets 1/10th of the PR, or 100 raw PR points. Last edited by raymor; 10-09-2011 at 07:44 AM..