jimbeetle - 4:13 pm on Jun 17, 2008 (gmt 0)

Is the home page really the most relevant page of the link?

Agree with everything you said under that. For a multi-section site I don't expect anybody to come to the home page from an SE except for navigational terms or some arcane phrases that really don't mean anything.

And again, it goes back to Brett's theme pyramid. For a multi-section site let's call the home page what it really is: a hallway page. A good hallway page, but nevertheless a hallway page all the same. If visitors happen to wind up there we present them with a series of doors from which to choose.

Though we need some external links to the home page to support the themes of the next-level pages, these are more likely to come naturally (lazy linking). So yep, concentrate on inner pages.