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Again for the most part I would prefer links to my index page, but not all the links. Having links deep in your site gives the robots ”side doors” to your site, and it is my belief that side doors gives a better overall spider coverage of the site and insures deep crawls better then a “link to index only” site. Let the articles that fit content in your site in a natural way link directly to this content.
Life is not black and white, SEO is also not always clear cut. Good compromises is often the way to go and what makes the more successful site is the quality of the compromises you make
But you should put all links to your index page...then place a sitemap link on the index page so you whole site gets spidered to boost your PR.
Ever tried to check on a search engine who is linking to your site? You would naturally type in your index URL. You dont want to be thee for hours typing in every page you have! In your case over 100!
Hopes this helps with your decision?
PM me if you need a hand
Is it good to have in a submitted article 2 links - 1 to your index page and 1 to a "deeper" page - maybe the page that has the original article on your site?
Let's say your widget site has a page on blue, purple striped, yellow poka-dotted widgets then you could of course link to a relevant site from such page which only lends your site more credibility.....and in turn have such site link to your homepage. Tit for Tat with good reasoning.
On another note, if you've more than one site, then be even more creative and incorporate what I call the "drip down effect" or "pyramid effect" in which no smaller (lesser known site) of yours links upwards, but they all link downwards, and in turn:
IF linking outwardly to other sites, have them link to one of your other sites whereas, you link to them from yet another of your sites. Thus, everyone's happy depending on the standing of the sites in question. It takes a bit of keeping track of, BUT, as long as you keep records (mentally or on paper) then you'll be fine. It's done well as long as you've never tried to trick the SEs with crappy linking and crappy content. Let's face it, Crappy sites are a dime a dozen.
Good consumerism all the way! Something unheard of amongst alot of folks on these forums.
And I've recieved similar one way links from other sites that have used my photos on their sites.
Sometimes the two sites are complimentary enough that we end up with two way links, but not always.
If you are talking about providing articles for other sites on a regular basis, and want to promote yourself as a content provider/writer, you might want to build a page with links to a small sample of sites that you have provided articles to.
You'd want to link to your best articles on the highest quality sites that have used your work in that case.
