IITian - 6:40 pm on Jun 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

>It's not empirically proven but I also believe that links within the body text of a page might possibly carry more weight than those in global navigation or in the "template" parts of pages. That seems logical, I think they should.

I use both, links within the body text and on special links pages. I think that many visitors who just fell into my site and have no time to read my lenghty keyword-laden text would be better served by being sent to those links pages and finding out quickly what they are likely looking for.

Even on my body text pages, I think putting most of the links at the bottom (or top) helps them to find the links soner. Just like the bibligraphy section of theses.

Even when these links are in the text, I think the following format might be more useful than the format that follows which is common among SEos. [bold for clickable]

Example 1: ... One nice search engine is Google (www.google.com) that was started by two Stanford Graduate students ....

Example 2: One nice Search engine is Google that was started by two Stanford Graduate students ....