Incoming links to internal pages

Effect on Page Rank of main page

[crobb305]

Hi everyone...

So far my site only has incoming links to its top page. The resulting page rank (PR5) is distributed to internal pages (PR4). I have thought about trying to get some incoming links to some of the internal pages but I am worried about it having an adverse effect on the PR of my main page. Let's say I get a PR5 link to one of my internal pages, but that PR5 site has about 20 outgoing links. The resulting contribution of PR to my page would be low. Would the pr of my internal page decrease to something lower than the 4 it has now which would ultimately get circulated back to my main page?

Any ideas?
Thanks

[MeditationMan]

I can't imagine the PR dropping anywhere in your site by having someone deep-linking. In fact the PR of your index page should benefit, as some of the PR from the internal page would flow to it.

[crobb305]

Well...I have another site that also has all of the incoming links going to the main page. It too is PR5 and most of the internal pages are PR4. However, one of the internal pages has one incoming link from a PR5 site. The PR of that internal page is now a 2 for some reason. I can't explain it.

Update:
Well, I just discovered 2 pr0 outgoing links on that page so that may explain why it's a pr2 now. LOL.

[Marcia]

Hold it, hold it right here! Let's dig a little further on this point

Update:
Well, I just discovered 2 pr0 outgoing links on that page so that may explain why it's a pr2 now. LOL.

crobb, which page has the 2 pr0 outgoing links on it? Is it the pr5 page that's linking to your internal page, or the internal page on your site that has the link to it that's got 2 outgoing pr0 links on it?

[crobb305]

The top page has PR5. The internal pages are all PR4 EXCEPT for one of the pages which is PR2. It is on this page that I discovered two outgoing links with PR0. I have removed those. I am not sure if they were causing the PR to suffer. But it is also this internal page that has a single incoming link from a pr5 site. All of my other incoming links are to the main page. So, that leads back to my original question...could incoming links to internal pages lower the overall PR of the main page if the PR is circulated back to the main page.

[yankee]

Are the PR 4 internal pages cached? If not, the PR 4 is a guess by google, not a real PR.

[Marcia]

>could incoming links to internal pages lower the overall PR of the main page if the PR is circulated back to the main page.

No crobb, links to internal pages won't hurt the PR of the main page. If they're good links, given all other factors remaining the same, if those links raise the PR of the internal page then the link from that page to the index page will benefit.