which has more value

[malcolmcroucher]

which has more value 100 links or 100 pages of content with good internal linking ?

[enigma1]

Depends on many other factors:

Here is a good case example:
100 static links from PR10 sites listing you at their home page.
100 original content pages where each describes a patent you made.

Here is a bad case example:
100 jscript/mangled links from hidden pages of questionable external sites.
100 duplicated/scraped pages of someone else content.

The good case has value, the bad case doesn't.

[Shaddows]

Also, would you be splitting 1 page-worth of content among 100 pages? Or consolidating 100 pages of content onto one sprawling page?

Assuming that each page is well written regardless of how many you have, my preference for this trade-off would be (for Google)
25 pages with 75 IBLs, 27 to home page, 2 each to the rest

Another question though: are you looking for SERPS ranking, trafic, useability or commercial sales (ecom)?

[edited by: Shaddows at 1:02 pm (utc) on Nov. 27, 2008]

[malcolmcroucher]

25 pages with 75 IBLs, 27 to home page, 2 each to the rest

What does this mean ?

25 pages with 75 IBL's? ( meaning : its not in the glossary - internal back links ?) with 27 to home page and 2 each to the other 25 pages ?

I would be looking for serp and then traffic , traffic is useless unless its targetted .

Regards

Malcolm

[Shaddows]

IBL= Inbound links, AKA backlinks.

The way I see it is this.

1) The more pages you have, the more links you need to get them ALL into SERPs (conversely, less pages are easier to rank with few links)
2) The more pages you have, the more targeted those pages are
3) The more targeted pages are, the higher the conversion (whatever your conversion goal is)

The unhelpful conclusion of these is that profitability requires lots of targeted pages supported by lots of links!

I suggest the trade-off position is a lower number of pages that are reasonably targeted, with a decent number of links.