Originally Posted by someguy

Sorry, but I have to disagree. I'm certainly not one of those "whiney webmasters", or one of the paranoid tin-foil hat wearing twitching SEOs who freaks at every new update or patent application, but our observation is that keywords on the page/site you are being linked from do have an effect on rankings (as opposed to just collecting PR).

Hi Someguy,

So, you were disagreeing with me. Well, maybe we don't disagree at all.

I fully agree that anchor text is very important, but I think it's important
no matter what the theme of the linked from page.

Of course, regarding relevancy, there also *might* be a boost if the linked
from page has some of the same keywords elsewhere on it's page. But
that is not what I was talking about. I was talking about the webmasters
that say all links should come from a relevant pages, period. I mean, some
guys can't finish a sentance without saying "relevant site", heh.


Bompa

The thing about PR is that it's always there.

It just doesn't always have PR displaying because PR updates are only done about every 90 days. So even if you have a display of PR0, chances are it still being factored behind the scenes and there is some PR juice there.

You just don't see it is all..