backlinks from my own site

What is the best way to deal with these and do they have much effect?

[daamsie]

I have noticed that my site's backlinks (link:www.mysite.com), only include one backlink from my own site (ie.. www.mysite.com/sitemap.htm). Now, when I type link:www.mysite.com/index.cfm that is where all the backlinks to my main page are (1300+). My question is whether I am losing any benefit by having it structured this way. I could conceivably point the 'home' links to 'www.mysite.com', rather than 'index.cfm', but I'm not sure whether this is worth the bother? My PR doesn't seem to suffer, but I'm wondering whether incoming link text is not maximized because of this?

NOTE: I did check to see if there had been any posts on this subject before, but didn't seem to find any :) please point me to the relevant thread if you know of it.

Thx

[CuriousWeb]

I changed a link in my navigation menu that appears on all the pages before the last deep crawl to include an important keyword and have seen it considerably boost this page in www2 and 3 for this update. (I know it may change but I don't think it will change drastically)

HTH

[edited by: CuriousWeb at 1:28 pm (utc) on Mar. 7, 2003]

[NickCoons]

daamsie,

I don't know if it makes a difference or not, but theoretically www.mysite.com and www.mysite.com/index.cfm are two different pages according to Google, so the links to Home on your pages probably should point to www.mysite.com.

[korkus2000]

As NickCoons says they are 2 different pages. Change your internal links to point to www.mysite.com instead of the actual page. I raised 2 pr points after doing it. Google will merge these 2 pages but it could take a long time.

[daamsie]

thanks for the advice guys :) will be changing that tomorrow!

[Mohamed_E]

> Google will merge these 2 pages but it could take a long time.

Interesting, my experience is totally different from that of korkus2000. Google has always merged the results from my.domain and index.html. As the saying goes, your mileage may vary :)

[Hagstrom]

> Google has always merged the results from my.domain and index.html

I did some experiments a week or two ago and got exactly the same number of backlinks for:

link:www.mysite.com/index.html
link:www.mysite.com/index.htm (even though it doesn't exist)
link:www.mysite.com/
link:www.mysite.com
link:mysite.com
link:mysite.com/index.htm (even though it doesn't exist)
link:mysite.com/index.html

But mayby index.cfm is different?

[albert]

I recently found at one of my sites different PR for "external" and "internal" URL:

www.mydomain.de has only PR 4

but www.mydomain.de/index.cfm/page/1/title/Home.htm (that's the link to homepage from every page of my site) has PR 7

Maybe that's why i have some pages with PR 6?

I hope now to get better PR for www.mydomain.com if i change all internal links to the homepage to "www.mydomain.de" ... or do you think i shouldn't change my backlinks to the homepage?