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supposing I have a deeplink (e.g. www.mydomain.com/pages/themes/widget.html) pointing to one of my domains from another domain. Let's say the domain which links to mine has a PR7 . What influences will that have on my PR? Will only the deeplinked page raise tp 6 or will the whole domain raise to 6? Or will it be considered as spam?
If one page with a high PR links to another page with a lower PR, it will tend to raise the PR of the lower ranking page and _only_ that specific page. And it doesn't matter how "deep" any of those two pages is positioned on the website.
And deep linking is not spam, but some webmasters (mostly at newspapers) hate it! :-)
Pages have PR rather than sites/domains. Your page would get a boost in PR, and would then pass on some of that boost to all other pages that it's linked to.
I love getting deeplinks. I regard it as a sign of having provided good information. Newspapers don't like it because visitors bypass the adverts, which is a crummy reason in my humble opinion.
If one of your pages earns an increase in PR because other people find it useful and are linking to it, other pages within your site will receive "spillover" benefits. How the PR flows within your site will depend on which pages link to which other pages, how many of your links are internal and how many point out to other sites, etc. Do your best to make sure ALL your pages are thoughtfully optimized, not just the home page, and make sure there is enough navigational information on each page so that if someone enters your site via an internal page, they can get their bearings.
If a site is worried about visitors by-passing ads on the home page or something, I'd say the answer is to place a carefully chosen ad or two on the content page, not to protest about deep-linking!
mydomain.com
mydomain.com/civilwar/
mydomain.com/biblestudy/
mydomain.com/somethingelse/
While my main domain is more of a personal homepage, my subdomains are actual topics that people link to, so some of my subdomains have higher PR than my main domain.
mydomain.dk is really just a personal portal and people do not link to it. They link to my websites:
mydomain.dk/website1/index.htm
mydomain.dk/website2/index.htm
etc.
> I love getting deeplinks. I regard it as a sign of having provided good information. Newspapers don't like it because visitors bypass the adverts....
Ahemmm... err methinks that the animosity against deep links is mainly a question of vanit... err pride, I mean. I happen to have read what some danish newspapermen have written about deep links. A newspaper's website is an integral intellectual construction and should be respected as such. You don't jump straight into the third movement of a Beethoven symphony, do you?
if this is the only part i want to hear, I do.
;)
I happen to have read what some danish newspapermen have written about deep links.
Danish newspapers don't like deep links. On the other hand Danish web gurus believe that Deep Linking is Good Linking [useit.com]
You don't jump straight into the third movement of a Beethoven symphony, do you?
Yes I do. And when I read a newspaper I always start with the comics' section :)
I love getting deeplinks. I regard it as a sign of having provided good information. Newspapers don't like it because visitors bypass the adverts, which is a crummy reason in my humble opinion.
If they hate deep links, it has very little to do with skipping ads and very much more to do with commercial 3rd parties acting as indexes to their content.
> commercial 3rd parties acting as indexes to their content
Like Google?
> Like Google?
I didn't have Google in mind as they don't charge for access. We don't allow Google to spider, actually we don't allow any spidering within the limits of robots.txt, but with Google News we see that as an appropriate traffic driver and will shortly allow it in once we've got the noarchive meta tag in place.
It's companies like Moreover who are more of a problem, or at least are viewed as one. Mind you last time I checked Moreover used a standard browser User Agent for their spider so being sneaky like that doesn't help their image.
If they hate deep links, it has very little to do with skipping ads and very much more to do with commercial 3rd parties acting as indexes to their content.
From Digitalmass [digitalmass.boston.com]
"COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Challenging the World Wide Web's fundamental premise of linking, a Danish court ordered an Internet news service to stop linking to Web sites of Danish newspapers.
Copenhagen's lower bailiff's court ruled Friday that Newsbooster.com was in direct competition with the newspapers and that the links it provided to specific news articles damaged the value of the newspapers' advertisements..."
