Best way to link pages in a site

Linking pages in a site

[Tomseys]

What is the best way, seo-wise, to link pages in a site?

Say you have an index page that links to the other 7 pages in the site. On each of those 7 pages, there is one link back to the index page but no other links to any of the other pages.

Is it better, in terms of link pop of each of the pages, to link all the pages together? In other words, every page below the index would have a link to the index and the other 6 pages.

Does it matter?

Thanks.

[jbinbpt]

No ... It doesn't matter. Having your links one level down is fine.

That said .. It doesn't hurt to provide a line of navigation at the bottom of each page.

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[Tomseys]

Thank you for the information and the welcome.

Another question. Say you have an index page, with a link on the index page to each of your subpages, at various places on the index page. Is it then ok (in terms of not pissing google and other search engines off) to have a little navigation footer listing all the subpages as well on the bottim of the index page? In other words there are in effect two links to each of your subpages on the index page. Is that ok?

Thanks again.

[jbinbpt]

The page that this post is on has at the top "Recent Posts" and toward the bottom "Recently Active Posts". Both do the same thing, but have different anchor text.
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