Backward links Question

Backward links from myself to myself

[mikemcs]

How do you get links from inside your own page to show up as backlinks to your page?

[DaveN]

the page has to be over a pr4

and don't link like this
<a href="home.asp">Home</a>

Link like this
<a href="Http://www.yoursite.com">Home</a>

Dave

[peterpum]

Hi all, (my first post here).

Are there any chances or threaths in doing this (linking to yourself via the full URL)?

Raphael

[DaveN]

we always fully qualify our linking structure

<a href="Http://www.yoursite.com/products.html">our products</a>
<a href="Http://www.yoursite.com/information.html">information</a>

and a lot of our images are presented like

<IMG SRC="Http://www.yoursite.com/images/nice_pic.jpg" ALT="image description" >

never had any problems

Dave

[Pricey]

Would this not count back against your rank for having outgoing links? Interesting thought though.

I have noticed something about using links:www.domain.com though google; I only get something like 3 backlinks using this through google... but I get like 80 odd checking through ATW. If this is the case would my PR be increased if google picked up all those backlinks?

[Pricey]

Saying that ^ PR should really be evened out because you have your internal page links comeing back in. Question is; which is likley to get you a better PR? <a href="products.htm"> or <a href="http://www.domain.com/products.htm">?

Has anyone experimented with this?

[Dayo_UK]

Personally I link

home.html

not

ht*tp://www.mydomain.com/home.html

and aslong as it is a PR4 or above then it is showing as a backward link.

[Nick_W]

You guys do know that PR is just a diversionary tactic don't you?

Nick

[Dayo_UK]

Nick_W

Yep - Does seem to be - I run a directory (newish) which is now showing a PR0(looks like from a month or two back) and directory submission are down.

Certainly being diverted from my submissions page :)

[dupac]

I heard that google might be giving less priority to the links coming for own site. Is that true?

[JLindsay]

You do know that if you are thinking in PR terms you should not create as the backlink to the homepage:

ht*tp://www.yoursite.com/home /index or /whatever.

Just always make the home link:

ht*tp://www.yoursite.com

[vich1]

Related question:

When linking internally should I use the form:

<a href="../blah/">blah</a>

or

<a href="../blah/index.htm:>blah</a>

Thanks,

Vic

[Dayo_UK]

Hi Vich1

I would recommend using the second method :), the first method is just linking to the folder while the second method is linking to the file.

To be honest I have not used the first method - I assume this works if there is only one file in the folder but if there is more than 1 file then you may have a problem - not sure.

Cheers

Dayo