Incoming Links to pages other than homepage

Will they raise pagerank for my homepage?

[jlander]

When someone links to a page on my site, does it raise pagerank for the entire site, or just the page that it links to?

I have the opportunity to virally get a lot of incoming links to my site by giving away content to my competitors. My goal is to get my homepage (where I will be promoting MY business) listed well with a competitive keyword.

If I ask for the link to my homepage, I will be able to get links, but far fewer than if I allow them to link to a different page, so I need to know what is the best way to do it? Will it be better to get a few links to the page I want to promote, or a BUNCH of links to other pages on my site?

I could create pages and rotate the incoming links around so that it will appear to Google that people are linking to multiple pages.

[jlander]

Here is a topic I started a few months ago when I came up with the idea.

[webmasterworld.com...]

The flash movie is just about ready, and everyone who sees it wants to use it. There is even some java scripting embedded in the flash file so that the movie will only work from my domain, and only if I give them permission to use it. That way if my link is removed, I can disable the movie.

Now, the only thing I have to do is figure out how to best use these links to my advantage.

[automotivetouchup]

It may boost that page, but it also has something to do with the whole share the wealth thing. Like Brett said it is better to have 50 pages come up in the serp than have one page show up 50 times. Page rank will also share or leak anyway.

[nakulgoyal]

Yes, you get indirect benefit. Page Rank for your Links Page increases and all your pages are linked from this page. PR passes and they get benefit. '

That is why it's always recommended to have your incoming links flow accross your website and not just the homepage.

[jlander]

Thanks automotivetouchup & nakulgoyal,

That is a big help.

So, probably the best way to maximize the benefit is to create several pages that all link to my home page and have the incoming links that I will be getting go to them. Then optimize my homepage as best I can.

[automotivetouchup]

The Idea is a little different than that. I don't know how ink works, but Google is a little smarter than that. Basically pagerank is a tool that detirmines the rank of a certain page. It also is supposed to help a user determine a pages importance within that website as well.

In theory if those sattilite pages linking to your home page have no imbound links, those pages will more than likely just not get indexed. You should work on a clean navigation as well as good content.

Now if you are looking to develop links(who isin't right?) try submitting to some directories, advertise a little, or buy a few links. Or even better this whole forum discusses how to work on them.

[TomJones]

I target different facets of my company site on different pages. Each page dumps the targeted user info into seperate databases. I have been recruiting links for each different page seperately to boost page rank.

I will swear to the isolated increase in page rank on the targeted pages. My most linked-to page is PR7 while, my home page and other pages range between 4-6.

The best part of all this is the effect on your targeted keywords. I am #1 in Google for over a dozen keywords and phrases that link directly to pages within my site. I would never approach that trying to fit all my KWs onto one heavily linked page.

See your site as several sites combined under one main home page and, recruit targeted links for each individually.

If you are targeting specific keywords, maybe change the order or vary the word on different pages. If you link to your homepage from those pages using an absolute link (i.e., "http;//www.widgets.com/") rather than site relative ("/index.htm"), you should leak the page rank from those pages to your home page.

[jlander]

TomJones,

Thanks for your explanation. I am beginning to understand now.

Jim

[dougs]

deep links also makes your site appear to have organic linking...and with google looking more and more for these, it can't do any harm.

Doug

[buckworks]

If other sites link to internal pages on your site, there will be spillover PR benefits for your other pages. Just make sure your navigation is set up so PR can circulate freely within your site (avoid dead ends).