Guest Blog Posts and PR
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Let's say I do a guest blog post on a PR5 site.
Let's also say the post is deep within the site, and the page rank that flows to it is only maybe PR1 or 2. Let's also say it doesn't get many links to it so it forever stays that way.
Will Google realize even though the PR of that page is low, it's on a PR5 site, thus giving it more link power than it the overall site were a PR2 site?
Did that make any sense?
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OK, I found the answer, and here is the blog post in case anyone else is having this question. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-is-googles-pagerank-good-for-whiteboard-friday
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You could also try getting relevant backlinks from related sites to point back to the article you did. It takes some work, but if it's a good article, you can totally get great additional mileage out of the article.
I had an article published on a PR7 site. I then contacted other sites that had written on the same very niche topic and many of them added an "UPDATE" to their article with a link pointing to my article.
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What you're describing to me is basically page authority and domain authority.
When you create a new page on a website (like a blog post) there won't be any links to it or any other metric for establishing authority, so it probably won't have much page authority at all.
However, if it's a PR5 site (which has a good amount of domain authority), it will still be a valuable link. Typically it's stated that the deeper in the site the link is, the less valuable.
So, based on how I'm understanding you're question, the answer is more or less "yes."
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