PR parsing best on links high up page

After an extended absence, John Scott returns to the v7n forums - and in an interesting post, he makes a point that on the Sevenseek directory, those links highest up the page code parse the most PageRank.

It had certainly been my belief for some time that footer links were very much devalued - what’s really interesting, though, is to see suggestion that there is an actual scale at work here, with links higher up a page having most value for parsing PageRank.