Back links from the same site!

How they have done it?

[robinponty]

Hi,
When I see back links in google for most of the site, I can see a that a of sites show the back links from many pages from itself.

For exmaple when I look for backlinks for www.any-site.com on google, it shows up back links from

www.any-site.com/1.htm
www.any-site.com/2.htm

and many others at times. How does it happen. Is there a special site structure that needto be followed to have these. Personally I have observed that these back links from the same site itself can help in increasing link popularity. Any comments would be appreciated on this as well.
regards

[cbpayne]

Link popularity (or Google's PR) is calculated on a page basis not a site basis. All links to a page (external or internal) are counted.

[robinponty]

Thanks Cbpayne for your Reply.

Also, can you reply my first question that how the backs links are developed from the same site? Does it has something to take with the site structure?
thanks!

[trillianjedi]

cbpayne has answered your first question.

Google works on a per page basis, not per domain. Site structure is irrelevant, but the linking pages need to be in googles index.

TJ

[graywolf]

I get better results using absolute links instead of relative links. Additionally I use wide architecture as opposed to a deep architecture.

[chrisnrae]

Robin, as they've said above, it is a per page thing. If you want www.yourdomain.com to receive backlinks from www.yourdomain.com/page1.html and www.yourdomain.com/page2.html then these pages need to be in google's index (most easily done with good site navigation within your own site) and contain a link to the main www.yourdomain.com on the subpages you want backlinks from (again, most easily done with good navigation).

[erwig]

Also, Google tends to show only pages with a PageRank of 4 or higher for a backlink search (even though this rule is not set in stone). So once you reach a PR of 4 on all your subpages, they will show up at backlinks to your homepage.

Christian

[robinponty]

Hi Chrisnrae,
Any site which i make with less than 100 pages, normally i put all the pages on the root level only. Even then I do not see those links as the back links.

What do you think is the possibel reason. I think it takes something more than this. Can you and other friends throw some light?

Thanks in advance!

[dan_popescu]

As Christian said above Google will only show links from pages with a PR4 or higher. If we're talking about the site in your profile I see most internal pages have a PR value lower than 4. That doesn't mean the links don't count towards link popularity.

[martinibuster]

...normally i put all the pages on the root level only.

Root level is not really important. It's how many clicks away from the home page that matters. After a certain point, for some websites, the bots stop crawling.

One strategy to encourage vigorous crawling is to obtain inbound links into your deeper content.

As graywolf suggested, absolute links work well. I heard Matt Cutts say that it makes the crawl easier and helps to eliminate crawling errors.

[ThomasB]

sitemaps work very well if you have lots of sites. But having a good/useful internal link structure as well isn't bad.