Internal link importance

with small PR will internal keyword linking matter?

[aias1975]

My homepage has PR 0. I have read that internal linking is important, but if I have few or no exeternal incoming links, will it matter?

I don't want to turn into a link Ho, but is there any alternative?

[jimbeetle]

Hi aias1975,

Internal linking is important for a variety of reasons. The most important, of course, so that your site visitors and SE spiders can find all of your pages.

For Google, just as links from external sites passes PR to your pages, internal links also pass their PR to the pages they link to. So, as you build your external links that PR is distributed to other pages on your site, depending on your navigation structure.

As on-page elements themselves, most SEs give keywords in link anchor text more weight than occurrences in plain text. If your home page links to sub-categories "Blue Widgets," "Orange Widgets," etc., you're telling the SEs (and your visitors!) that that's what the page is about.

Similarly, internal pages should link to the home page by something like "Blue Widgets Home" instead of just "Home."

So, keep building the external links, spread Google PR around to your internal pages and reinforce your keywords in anchor text.

Jim

[aias1975]

thanks for the insight. I changed my linking keywords recently, but now may be able to fine tune things. I knew that the keywords in link text helped the target page, but I didn't know it helped the submitting page. Ben

[FoodPlaces]

On a PR note (but not an internal linking note...) is there a way of checking the PR of a site that isnt in DMOZ when one cannot run the Google Toolbar?

Thanks,
Rob

[aias1975]

I saw something in google news a few days ago about PR checking, but can't find it. sorry

[fathom]

You can calculate it but a very long and tedious process (even if you understand the formula fluently).

Ask a friend to check.