PageRank from a single link over many high PR sites

Thursday, August 7, 2008, 4:49 PM
Website design by John

I got a tiny little gift from linkage love heaven today. One of my endlessly dumber projects, the Chunky Soup Curse website got a syndicated link from a number of high PageRank newspaper websites.

It is a single link on syndicated AP content, from an article about the 10 Worst Pop Culture Curses. You can see it at the LA Times website, the Orlando Sentinel and the Hartford Courant.

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This presents an interesting opportunity, barring too much further linkage, to study the effect of large scale syndicated content links and their effect on PageRank. The Times, Sentinel and Courant are PR 8, PR 7 and PR 7 respectively. I'm not really certain how many papers syndicated the article with the link, but enough of them did that it should have a visible effect when PR is recalculated in October.

So far, the LA Times readers are the bigger clickers-thru.

I hope there is actually a fairly large-scale reproduction of the article online, because I have long wondered what a handful of higher PR backlinks are actually worth.

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