Links from non-homepage pages (content pages)

[dgessler]

In terms of search engine rankings, is there significantly more weight placed on links from a homepage rather than a link from inside one of their content pages? For example, a website I want a link from is PR6 homepage, but they have a few PR5 content pages which I believe will be much easier to get a link on.

Thoughts?

Thanks.

[piatkow]

The site will want to pass that "link juice" to their own internal pages.

A home page link would be better for you but if you got it you would probably find it tagged as "nofollow".

[cybox]

Home page links are better than in the inner pages co'z more visitors will most probably visits the link. But if you got a home page that has low pr than it's inner pages, I suggest that you link to that inner page to get more link juice.

[dgessler]

So let's say for example the homepage is PR6, and the content pages are PR6 as well. Getting a homepage link won't help out rankings more? I'm not talking about getting more click-through's, strictly SERP. Since more links point to a website's homepage, it isn't deemed more important or anything?

Thanks,
Dan

[martinibuster]

I wouldn't fret about whether it's home page or inner page. Take what you can get. If someone wants to link to you from within a page of content then that's fine because natural links generally come that way. Of course bloggers blogroll with ROS [webmasterworld.com] links and that's natural, too.

Having a variety of links pointing back to your site is natural. An on topic link from within content is perfectly fine, and imo much preferred over a link from the footer of a page, even a home page. So take what you can get and move on.

[cabowabo]

I'm with MB here. I tackle link building by thinking "traffic first" and I want my link to be above the fold ina good location - preferably in the body of the content. I look at any Link Juice passed as "gravy" for my campaign.

[dgessler]

Good points, thanks guys. With my type of website, it's very hard to gain natural, dare I say non-free links. So for my situation in particular, the cost difference between a non-free link may be quite a bit different whether I link to the websites' homepage, or a less-visitied-but-still-high-PR content page.

[cybox]

PR's dont really matter. Go for the most relevant sites. It can get more good results in SERPs.