Hi.
I need your help pls. My newest backlinks go to my home page, instead of going to my internal pages (as it used to be up until recently). My question is, backlinks to my homepage will also help improve the SERP's of my internal pages or just the homepage SERP's. In other words backlinks to home page also extend to internal pages, is it considered by the search engines to cover the entire site or just the homepage?
Issue is I have some internal pages that rank pretty well and would very much like to improve the rankings but rather without having to create backlinks to each internal page. Instead would prefer to cover the entire website in one shot.
Any advice?
Thanks
SearchBliss posted this at 21:33—2nd September 2005.
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Any backlinks are good backlinks. Links to your home page will filter down, but your home page will rank higher.
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ddmonkey posted this at 11:08—3rd September 2005.
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10x searchbliss for your reply. That's good for my homepage. However as I get it, having backlinks to my homepage doesnt really help the rest of the website. Any other way to create the backlinks so it helps the entire website, all in one?
WarriorFX posted this at 11:28—3rd September 2005.
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Yeah - Google page ranks trickle down... if you have too many affiliate links on your index site - you'll lose a lot of that trickle down effect to other people's sites.
Are you referring to Google? Many search directories let you manually submit other pages... and you should have a Meta Tag to tell the bots to follow your page links...
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Anita.Bonghit posted this at 03:01—10th September 2005.
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Sorry to barge in like this, but can I ask what meta tag to use?
WarriorFX posted this at 06:59—10th September 2005.
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This one will tell them that the current page links to supporting pages, and to follow on...
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">'WarriorFX.com
robfenn posted this at 22:50—11th September 2005.
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That tag actually represents a waste of space. Do not bother putting in your HTML. Same for author tags, or the comical re-visit tag.
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ddmonkey posted this at 09:49—10th September 2005.
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yes I have the robots tag, everything is perfectly set in place. However, telling the robots to follow the links does not help me since all my pages are indexed. The issue is the rankings only. Every single page on my site is greatly optimized for Yahoo and I rank good for some keywords with individual pages of my site. For example page domain.com/123.html ranks well on Yahoo for keyword <123>. This is because my backlinks strategy was to point links to internal pages of the site (i.e. backlink with anchor text "123" to page "123.html"). Now I've changed the strategy, my newest backlinks point to my home page (i.e. "domain.com/"). So I was wondering will this in any way help with the rankings of the internal pages (i.e. push them up?) or will just help the home page ranking go up? If it is the later, then I will most likely switch back to my original strategy.