Deep linking

When asking for links do people ask for them deep?

[dougs]

OR just nice and simple to the home page..

Doug

[fathom]

It would be better to get multiple points of links into your site.

1. Obviously the most appropriate page has value to the person clicking in.

2. PageRank distribution spreads better -- your deep pages are usually the meat pages (Brett's money-makers) where the mainpage is more for show. Thus deep pages are the ones you want ranked in SERPs.

3. One extra link on the mainpage doesn't help alot. One extra link on a topic focus page can be the difference between this page being ranked #1 and ranked #31.

[mil2k]

Yes people do ask for deep links. It helps if both the webmasters understand the importance of deep links. HTH :)

[netcommr]

your deep pages are usually the meat pages (Brett's money-makers) where the mainpage is more for show. Thus deep pages are the ones you want ranked in SERPs

so true

basically, you want links from other relevant home pages to the 'meat', as well as other sources, but not leaving from your own base.

[dougs]

I know the value, but I deal with 1000's of link requests and I very very rarely see someone asking for deep links.

So everyone may preach it but for my experience I see very few people doing it.

Doug

[Perplexed]

From my point of view a combination of both seems fairly desirable. Deep links to benefit my content pages ( fathom expressed it so well ) and a whole bunch of other links to a specific page ( not necessarily the home page ) which can be used as part of a link exchange system.