Link Importance Poll: Relevance or Pagerank?

I'd say relevance... What about you guys?

My vote is for relevance

I will vote for relevance.

Of course it is relevence. Just going for PR is the worst idea you could possibly have.

Oops, voted Page rank by accident
Pressed the wrong button and realised too late

RELEVANCE with....good trust, link page indexed by Google if your link will appear on a link page and the link page only contains relevant links too if you can't arrange contextual links.

IMO, no need to vote, the answer is pretty obvious for the last two years or so.

It would seem so... unfortunately there are some who decided to ignore that little detail

Yeah….if I counted every dumb email I received that mentioned a high PR link exchange from an unrelated site and on a non-related links page that isn't being indexed by Google...I WOULD GO INSANE!!!!!! That plus reading the same newbie posts over and over again here!

I wish I was as smart as Fathom, then I could intellectually demoralize them and if all else fails tell them all to PISS OFF!

Just to play devil's advocate for a moment...

1 relevant PR0 links is less helpful, IMHO, than 1 irrelevant PR7 link, assumng that the links are all on similar, unsaturated pages.

With that minor addendum to the argument, I still go for relevance over PR when the gap isn't as great, i.e. I'd rather have a relevant PR1 link than an irrelevant PR4 link.

You'll have a high PR anyways..so relax

Till now relevancy got major votes, Cheers
I prefer to get a good position in google SERP rather then got 7-8 pr. So definitely i put my money on Relevancy of links.

Definitely relevancy of the site.although PR is also a very important thing,but in comparison i would go for relevancy.

And how about the third option, Relevant with High PR?

I am not as sure of this as i used to be after reading much discussion lately on links. I would start by saying I think PR by itself is meaningless. But it is also probably true as I saw argued by John the factors that create high page rank are often (not always) the same that create high trust rank.

It should be remembered that most people on the internet do not have SEOed sites. Therefore a large (probably majority) of sites that have high PR also probably also have a high trust rank because they have received a large amount of links from other sites organically. I think many people that do SEO can get lost in the belief that because something can be manipulated is is mostly manipulated. I would imane more often than not high PR sites have not been artifically manipulating PR.

The premise here is not that PR matters but that a high high page rank site is indicative of a site with high trsut rank. therfore good to get a link from. Of course there are exceptions.

Secondaly the argument about relevance. i recently posed a relevance question in this thread http://forums.seochat.com/google-optimization-7/trust-rank-quality-score-or-quantity-for-lj-and-serps-128253.html

and got an intersting response from EGOL. There is a lot of question marks over relevance. There are many that argue that relevance is overplayed. That google can only really determine site relevance and not page relevance.

So if the question becomes would you rather a link from a high trust rank site ie edu that has no obvious relevance to your site or a low trust rank site ie billybobs car reapirs home page (which also has no or little PR ) and you were selling cars. I would take the edu anyday.

I would take both if had a choice.

I have come around to the opinion that my efforts for links now go into sites i beleive have high TR ie edus over relevance and low trust ranks.