interlinking

interlinking from internal pages to home page

[christinabob]

which url is prefered for internlinking. I mean if i give link from internal pages to home page with keyword which url i should use from following according to seo point of view.

www.mysite.com/index.html or www.mysite.com/

[piatkow]

I have never seen any numbers on this but what I have interpreted as the "accepted wisdom" on this from other threads is that the important thing is to be consistent on both internal and external links.

I standardised all my internal home page links to www.example.com a while back but I created a Google site map at the same time. Overall there was a small beneficial effect but I can't say which was the cause.

[christinabob]

please someone help me about this interlinking

[Beagle]

The addresses you list are for two different things (although they'd both end up on the same page).

This one is a link specifically to your home page:
www.mysite.com/index.html
Kind of like telling someone, "Come and knock on my front door."

This one is a link to the directory:
www.mysite.com/
Because your home page is the index page for the directory, a link to the directory itself will lead to the home page.
Kind of like telling someone, "Come to my house," assuming that they'll knock on your front door.

I'm not an SEO expert (to put it mildly!), but if the idea is to be consistent, then I'd think you'd want to use the link that goes specifically to your home page.

[Marcia]

Link to www.example.com/ (with the ending forward slash) from both within the site and from inbound links. Be consistent, and redirect non-www to www. If you prefer, you can use example.com/ and do the reverse, but the idea is to be consistent and use only one - without index.html.