Marcia - 2:28 am on Apr 9, 2007 (gmt 0)

There's a difference between global (or section) site navigation, which even on smaller sites is often done using includes. I use PHP Includes even on an 8-10 page site, and so do others. So of course that's normal to be the same. That isn't the same as linking to an article from within text on other pages of the site using anchors relevant to both the page linked to and the page the link is on.

If there's a page with shoes and socks and a page about shoes that links to it, it would be expected that shoes would be in the anchor, since it's in the context of a page about shoes. If the link to that shoes/socks page is coming from text on a page about socks, there's nothing abnormal about linking to the shoes/socks page with socks in the anchor - it's an on topic link to an on topic page..

There's a difference between sites' common navigation and linking in body text within the context of what the page is about.

There's also a big difference between navigation ON and WITHIN a site and anchor text in external, inbound links. Unfortunately, this issue got muddied several posts back.

Thank you mfishy, for the clarity of your post.