Do links to internal pages increase PR for the home page?

[member22]

Hello,

When I create links to increase my PR , should I create those for the home page only or can I also create some for the pages inside my website ?

Thank you,

[tedster]

If the links pass PageRank at all (that's always a question when you create them yourself) then links to an internal url can help. They circulate PR through the link structure of the site. I assume most or all of your pages link to the Home Page, so internal links will help PageRank throughout your domain.

[gouri]

Hi Ted,

If possible, can you please explain what you mean when you say "that's always a question when you create them yourself." If links are created to inner pages from the home page in the body text, do the inner pages receive some of the link juice of the home page?

Thanks.

[tedster]

We are talking about links from other websites, gouri. For backlinks like that, Google is most interested in links that are placed independent of the website that is receiving the links. Backlinks that the site itself controls are very likely to be devalued.

But you are asking about links within your own website. Yes, links from the home page to inner pages channel some PageRank to those inner pages, as a general rule.

[minnapple]

In an ideal world, inbound links should be distributed to match you site structure. Your most important pages getting the most the lesser the less. All links should support upward if your site structure and inbound linking structure are in line.

[potentialgeek]

My experience:

Home Page (PR4)

Home Page > Directory 1 (PR 3)

Home Page > Directory 1 > Subdirectory A (PR2)

I usually lose one PR point per directory level, unless many other pages on the site also link to the directory, in which case its PR is the home page PR -1.

p/g

[raghavhere]

Google always pay attention in Internal and External links..
But the point is do we realize which link is usefull to the page or which is not? As I have seen at many cases, that websites are linked from every page and sometimes they are not related to other page. The better option is to block the link juice from high PR page throgh "no follow".

This will ensure to not loose any link juice to any non relevant pages or low quality content pages.

Guys what you think is this make sence...