Recipricol Linking all in one basket?

Should other sites link to me on different pages?

[moomelman]

Does it help my positioning to have other sites point to my site on different pages within my site?

Right now my home page is what all my outside links point to - mabe I need to rethink.

Thanks

[Beachboy]

I often have various content pages of my sites act as gateways. Pages are themed to reflect a particular keyword phrase. I find it to be beneficial for sites related to the content of a specific page to link to that page. For instance:

Joe's Red Widgets links to mysite.com/red-widgets.html

Assuming the incoming link is of sufficient quality, this procedure has the effect of boosting the relevancy and PR of the target page, and seems to benefit the site as a whole.

[moomelman]

Thanks beachboy - do the links leaving you "red widget" page back to the other site need to be on the same page? Or is it just as well to put all the outgoing links let say on one links.htm page?

Thanks

[startup]

Yes! Try and get links to the lowest PR pages on your site. Most sites have only links to their index pages and experience "link rot" when linking to internal pages. Having external links to internal pages is one of the keys to getting a very high PR value.
I believe this is the only way a PR10 site is possible.

[edited by: startup at 12:55 am (utc) on Sep. 25, 2002]

[Beachboy]

I'd do this:

1. Make sure the target site isn't PR0, you don't want to link to a site which Google has penalized.

2. Is that other site a competitor? If so, you want them to link to you, but you don't want to provide as much benefit to them, do you? So link to them from a low PR page leaving keywords out of the anchor text, or put all your links on a links page that has a "nofollow" Meta tag in place.

3. Hope they don't know what you just did. ;)