Does PR have an affect on how quickly a text link gets picked up as a backlink. Example. Lets say I trade links with a site that has a PR of 7, then I trade links with a different site with a PR of 4. Will Google notice the backlink from the PR7 page before the PR4 page, or does it not matter. My thinking is that since the PR7 page gets spidered more, then that backlink would be calculated before the text link from the PR4 site. Is this correct? Or do all links get picked up when Google does their IBL update regardless of PR? Once again, I am not talking about the effects each page will have on my ranking in the serps, but rather how fast each link is picked up and noticed by Google. I'm not an expert, but i have a different point of view. I think google combine the pr together and distribute it evenly depending on what keywords are you using. For relevency.For example, if you search word "hotel", the result "hotels.com" at the first position certainly have more than 10,000 site pointing to theirs. And all that site have different PR. Some might have 5,7,1, or even 0. But the first 10 site that points to this site surely have something to do with hotels. Either there are an entertainment and recreation site or a gambling site .Well PageRank seemingly effects how often a web page gets crawled so in answer to your question djbj597922 I would say it's more than likely.Although it could easily happen as well that the PR4 page gets crawled first, it is just more probable that the PR7 link gets picked up on before the PR4 link.djbj597922 wrote:davidausI think gardenstew is on the right track ... it depends on the page that gets crawled first.The opinion is the more a site changes the more frequesntly it gets crawled. If the PR-4 site is very dynamic (News, Blog, Forum) then it could be crawled hourly. If the PR-7 site is fairly static (affiliate site, catalog) it could change less often and only crawled every two weeks.So the answer to your question is ...PR does not affect how quickly a site link is picked up, that depends on how frequently a site is crawled.Thats makes sense, but I always thought that just because a person had a high PR such as 7 or 8 then their site would get crawled more often regardless of how often the content changes. If two sites had the exact same content and it didn't change, would the page with a higher page rank get crawled first? Just trying to get a foot hold on how this whole SEO thing works. Doesn't matter how you phrase the question .... the answer is the same PR does not affect how quickly a site link is picked up, that depends on how frequently a site is crawled.Yeah, but I thought that the higher a sites PR the more it gets crawled.http://www.ozzu.com/other-google-information-and-resources/higher-pagerank-higher-index-rate-t33343.html&hi ... index+rateHmmm ... that thread got past me .... and it is totally false.I have found PR-7 sites that have not been updated in over a year. It almost looks like they have been abandoned. Google hasn't even updated the the site for over 6 months according to the cache. Are you trying to say that Google visits the site every day, just to see if a change has been made? Very doubtful ....Personally I believe that it does not directly because of Pagerank that there is a higher index rate. I believe that it all comes down to the quantity of links to your site in this case. Thinks about it, the more links there are to your site, the more avenues the crawlers to index your site.Although it could also be dependent on the nature of your site. For example blogs and news sites get indexed more often because their content changes very frequently.Quote:very smart rtchar. "Will Google notice the backlink from the PR7 page before the PR4 page, or does it not matter. "A link on the main pages of a web site will get the page indexed by SE easily.It does not matter to how fast it be indexed byb SE if the site is PR 4 or 7.I can make a one page site with no PR and have it linked with a forum. or I just keep updating that pageI think it still comes down to how many updates/dynamic the site linked to is. A forum with so much activity like this will be sending lots of bots along their ways to our sites..Hi Guys just to add something. What I