Important question about incoming links to a directory

Will they help ALL pages within that directory? or just the index file?

[chrisandsarah]

Hello,

I'm trying to work out a good link strategy to get more incoming links help my pages and have more webmasters want to participate rather than see me as direct competition and say no when i ask them to link to my commercial pages.
This is my directory structure at present:

www.mydomain/carType1/
(which lots of people will link to as its NOT a commercial page)
and then i have..
www.mydomain/cars_For_Sale/carType1_for_sale.htm
(Which not many will link to as its a commercial page, but i need to get the 'carType1_for_sale.htm' ranked higher as its what pays the bills!)

My question is
1. will incoming links to the directory /carType1/ significantly help the carType1_for_sale.htm page if i moved it out of the /cars_For_Sale/ directory, and into the /carType1/ directory? even though the links point to the directory and not the carType1_for_sale.htm page?

Many thanks

[takagi]

Links go from one page to another, and so is PR transfer. One could argue if inbound links have more PR transfer than internal links. But directory structure is not influencing the PR distribution. So a link to a sub page won't help other pages PR in the same directory unless there is PR transfer through a link on that page.

Sorry to disappoint you.

[topr8]

this is a strategy that is very useable and productive.

create a page to which other sites would like to link, make it attractive for them to link to, in your case the 'uncommercial' page fills this purpose.

then transfer the pr from that page to the page you want it for by linking to the "money" page, by doing this with several bait pages you can build up pr on the page where you want it.