Which link url placement to buy - High PR vs. High PA?

[emerald]

I'm about to buy one directory link (just the one!) but can't decide which URL to place my link on in that directory because of the varying metrics - which is better of the below (bearing in mind my own site is still a PR0 sitewide)?

1. www.exampledirectory.com/categoryA/subtategory1/
   Metrics: 21 linking domains, PA 44, DA 59, PR0

2. www.exampledirectory.com/categoryA/
   Metrics:1 linking domain, PA 35, DA 59, PR5

I know PR is no longer relevant and usually ignore this metric (except for possible penalties) and just focus on Seomoz toolbar metrics, but as my own site itself is PA:37 and DA:28 homepage but PR0 completely sitewide (over 6 months old but relatively new site), I thought this might help to balance things.

Thanks for your advice.

[oznappies]

The fact that the site you are talking about is selling link will mean they will probably be hit by the next round of Panda updates, so save your money and hire a marketting person to create you some great content that people will want to tweet about or post links to.

If you look at the data from the last round of updates, sites droped rank upto 90% so your DA60 could become a DR6 and no value anyway.

Look at your top competitors and what they are doing right and do it better have a look at the current whiteboard Friday video from Rand to see how it is all changing.

By the way we are PR0 but have 8 keyphrases top 3 and 16 on page 1 which equates to a huge continual growth in traffic. We took the hard route and contribute to the industry blogs etc.

[Trupanion]

Google's PR is pretty much for visitors, and not for SEOers.  Focus on the DA of the site, and then the PA of the page.  If the site has a good DA, then the page should follow as long as it isn't garbage.

Make sure the site is still ranking well, because you don't want to have their bad juice get passed over to you.

This is a great post about links. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-wikipedia-model

Hope this helps.

[SteveOllington]

I wouldn't even bother with using PR to judge the value of anything. For a link I'd check it's moz bar stats, age of domain, number of root domains linking in, and where on the site, and on the page you get to have a link... plus how many other links are on that page.

I also hope you're not paying too much for a directory link... couple of quid at most