Keyword indexing

If keyword is in link does it go to the page its linked to?

[kilo]

Most of the content on my homepage are links. When I do searches on keywords/phrases that are contained on my homepage (that are within links), it brings me to the Page the link represents and not my homepage. The page it represents however has a very low page rank then compared to my homepage, and my homepage does not show up in the results at all.

Is this because if the keyword is only contained within a link it will automatically show the page it is linked to rather than the linking page even tho it has a higher page rank?

thanks

[keywordguru]

I would say there can be a few different theories on this.
I would say it can be a combination of the internal pages getting credit from your homepage, as well as possible targetting with keywords on that landing page.

Let me ask, are you seeing this in yahoo searches, and/or google as well? I have noticed that yahoo sometimes seems to first do this with links, and then eventually with time the homepage takes the lead while sometimes it doesn't.

As for google, I have seen completely different things.
I would say that even if the traffic is entering at the internal page, you are one step ahead because if a user comes to your main page, they may miss the link they are looking for. I guess to really understand I would need more details.
KG

[kilo]

Interesting I checked the same search phrase on Yahoo and instead I got the Homepage at a high position rather than the page the link is representing.

The reason I was asking the question, is to find out the usefullness of having regularly changing content on the home page. I had some text on the homepage that is updated weekly, and was checking if it was being indexed for the keywords that were on the homepage, and I noticed that if typed in a keyword that was within a link it would show the linking page, rather than the home page.

[mona]

It looks like you've just 'accidently' discovered a key factor in ranking well in Google, Kilo. Congrats!