Marketleap vs Pagerank

[Netspeed]

Is there any reason that a site with fewer links in Marketleap's link popularity score higher in Pagerank than a competing website with a higher Pagerank?

[fatnewt]

Yes.

PageRank is not a factor only of the quantity of incoming links, but also of their quality. You'll get more PR if you're linked to from a PR 9 pages than if you're linked to from one, or several PR 1 pages. A high-PR page passes more PR... so not all links are created equal.

Marketleap's tool focuses solely on quantity.

[someonewhois]

You can have literally thousands of PR1 links, and have lower PR than if you got 1 link from a PR10, as Fatnewt has said.

[WealthStream]

Think of MarketLeap's link popularity count as being a completely unprocessed, unrefined number. The true value of your incoming links only becomes clear when you have categorized all of your links based on what sites they come from.

[Netspeed]

Thanks for the great info! So the true value is more based on what Google does correct?

[Netspeed]

How does one go about getting quality links? It seems as though it comes down to basically asking the websites for links or am I wrong?

[KLB]

How does one go about getting quality links? It seems as though it comes down to basically asking the websites for links or am I wrong?

Basically you are correct. One way I ask for links is to put a comment on every one of my pages asking some people to link to the given page if they think it would be useful to others. It is a great way to get free links as lots of people are happy to provide links to their favorite pages and websites without asking for anything in return.

[awall19]

also marketleap data may show multiple links over. so if you got a sitwide link on a forum and those show in yahoo and a few other engines well that is a lot of low power links.