The meaning of internal links

Dumb question here.....

[SoleDrag]

I have read here that "internal" links are AS important as inbound links to your site.

I guess I'm having trouble understanding what this means. I do have links to each page at the bottom of every page on my site, is this what you guys mean? For some reason I don't think it is.

And is my lacking in this department a possible reason why my main page has a PR4 and ALL my internal pages are PR0? Obviously, that is a concern.

Any help from anyone would be GREATLY appreciated.

[claus]

>> possible reason why my main page has a PR4

I'm not sure why all your internal pages would be PR0, but the reason that your index page is higher is probably that it has both internal and external links.

/claus

[dazzlindonna]

internal links are links to pages on your site from pages on your site.

[CCowboy]

It takes Time for PR to Sread out the other pages! Could take 90 days or longer to see real PR on sub-pages.

[SoleDrag]

It's been longer than 90 days. I'm lost. And I still don't fully understand internal linking.

[John_Caius]

Forget about search engines, PR, internal link strategy, keyword density and the rest. Pretend you've never heard the words 'search engine optimisation'.

Build a good site that your users find valuable. Build links between the pages according to what makes sense for the user. Increase the profile of your site by getting it listed in the major directories and exchange links with other sites on a similar theme so that visitors at their sites will find yours too.

SEO is more about common sense than a lot of people in the industry would like to make out. When you've got a nice little established site, then look at tweaking things to do better. But remember that Google is designed to highlight good sites - those that are relevant, content-rich and liked by their users.

Build a good site and Google will optimise its search algorithm to find you better.

:)

[claus]

There might be an issue with crosslinking. I know all these linking terms are confusing, but there's a good glossary link on top of all the pages here:

[webmasterworld.com...]

>> links to each page at the bottom of every page on my site

If you have, say, five pages on your site, this is quite common, whereas if you have 500 pages this is not very common and it might cause problems.

If you have a large site, it is much better to make a site map (with no more than 100 links on each page, preferrably a lot less) - and then make your site navigation so that you only linked between pages that are related in some way. All pages do not need to link to all other pages - Googlebot needs only one link to find a page.

/claus

[rezash]

had same problem.I was using dynamic pages like index.xgi?par=aa&key=b... reduced the number of parameters to only one like index.cgi?par=a and they are searched by google now.Aslo having sitemap is very important.
-Reza

[BigDave]

How are you linking to the other pages? Google does not follow javascript links, only standard HTML links.

[dirkz]

Have your internal pages been crawled?

Normally you can expect somewhat near PR3 for them when linked from your main page (PR4).

Yes, the links must be readable by crawlers, no JS.

90 days is much too long, there is something wrong with it.