Backlinks and PR

[frenchnadine]

Is there a tool that searches backlinks and ranks them by their PR (not one that just shows you the PR but actually lets you rank the results)

[Michael Martinez]

If such a tool exsits, it would probably not be very helpful. What I would like to see is a tool that tells me which backlinks are passing value. Web documents with a visible Toolbar PR value may be blocked by Google (and other search engines) from passing value through their links (or by the Webmasters using noindex, nofollow, etc.).

[frenchnadine]

how would this passing value be measured? surely a tool that just showed passing value would not be very helpful as lots of backlinks will pass value but only very small value. maybe its better than nothing.

the reason i wanted to check by PR is because high PR links usually (not always) mean more value is being passed

[Michael Martinez]

how would this passing value be measured? surely a tool that just showed passing value would not be very helpful as lots of backlinks will pass value but only very small value. maybe its better than nothing.

Since most links probably don't pass value, knowing which links pass value is better than knowing which pages on which your links are placed have been assigned Toolbar PageRank.

the reason i wanted to check by PR is because high PR links usually (not always) mean more value is being passed

That is an assumption that fails to take the math into consideration.

If we assume for the sake of discussion that you can calculate the value a link passes on the basis of Toolbar PR, then 1 solitary link on a PR 1 page will pass more value than any 1 of 20 links on a PR 10 page.

[bornhaddin]

I do not think this kind of any tool is there for searching4 backlinks and ranking them.

[dominicfilip]

Backlinks come first. PR is a product of your backlinks. Now, if you have good PR it may help getting backlinks, kinda like being pretty gets you more dates. But you need the backlinks to get in the game.
There now seem to be 2 versions of PR. First is that used for the SERPs (the important one) which Google claims now updates continuously. This PR value can not be seen directly, only interpreted by how you're doing in the SERPs.

The second PR is that shown on the Google Toolbar. Rumors are that this now updates 4 times a year. If so it should be due to update soon. Updating this display quickly and accurately doesn't seem to be a Google priority.

Google indexes many more backlinks for sites than they show. For a better picture of what search engines are indexing, try checking yahoo or alltheweb for backlinks. In the meantime, you should keep getting more backlinks.

Also, do a search for the Google Sandbox and learn why that may slow new sites from performing quickly.