Can a lower PageRank page drain and reduce my PageRank?
Lower PageRank pages don’t reverse drain PageRank. The flow is always one way, from the sending to the receiving page. Linking to a lower PR page won’t lower your own PageRank. An exchange between two theme relevant pages might even raise each other’s PageRank. Google’s linking system, in it’s most basic form, is designed to reward linking to other sites, but not for establishing artificial linking schemes to trick the searc algorithm.
