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So, If the firstpage links to every page, every internal page will have PageRank 4.
Do you thing this is good idea.
I also have 5 domain names in our group. I would like to cross link between these domain names. What should I do? Should I cross link every page together by adding link at the footer of every domain name.
I would think in terms of both SE's and users.
Imagine how annoying it would be to come to a web site where you were confronted by a massive page containing links to all 1000 pages. I would suggest that you would not stick around too long. You may have your inherited PR4 but what good it that when people (your Holy Grail) disapear.
Instead work on logically structuring your pages so that users and SE's can easily navigate their way in and around your site.
Say you sell gardening products, try to categorise them in a logical. So your top level page has some info about general things with links to your main categories (tools, clothes, plants, furniture etc). Then when the users goes to the tools page they are presented with a page containing info on spades, trowels, forks etc, and each one of those links to your detail page.
This is a rough Theme, have a look at these posts that gives you the big low down on how to do it.
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Cant find the post by Brett on this subject ? There is an epic!
<ADDED> Found it, took it as a personal challenge. Halfway down the page.
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WRT to cross linking every page, not really such a good idea, that can be veiwed as spam. Instead consider targeted links to relevent sections. So instead of having a footer that that has a link to every other domain, create a "partners page" and link with subject related text. That is one option, there are others.
HTH
PR doesn't quite work like that
imagine PR is a logarithmic scale
Pr 0 = 10
PR 1 = 100
PR 2 = 1000
PR 3 = 10000
PR 4 = 100000
PR 5 = 1000000
if you have a PR 5 page (1000000) you share that PR amongst every page you link to (which in your case is 1000 pages).. that means each page you link to is given 1000 "points" from the PR 5 page... that makes each of these pages a PR 2 (see scale above).
this is a very simplistic explanation of PR.. it actually includes dampening factors and a few other elements. You can read a fairly detailed document here - [iprcom.com...]
