PR Update Observation #1

mlevenhagen · #1 (**permalink**) 04-22-2005, 12:05 PM

Internal Link Structures are Important:

I could have very well discovered an interesting way to get your internal pages a boost in PR Ranking. All though many of you may have already known or thought this, but it's a good reminder for the newbies...

I have over 25 articles on my website. 9 of these articles are written my eBay Radio's Product Sourcing Editor Chris Malta... I have all of them inter linked. Each article, at the bottom, links to all the other articles.

I also have my own articles at this website... but most of them do not inter link... or they might just link to a few other pages, but are not recipricol in nature...

Chris's articles all have a PR2... my articles all have a PR1.

They are all included in the SiteMap. I don't see any other reason for it... unless Chris is labeled an authority and Google gives me a PR point for linking to him, but I doubt that... I link to authority sites in some of my articles.

So that's my observation and something I'm going to really continue to pay attention to in the future. I've notices a few other pages with a little higher rank that are linked to in various areas of the website as well...

It's really Google's way of weighing the relevance of a page I would think...

If you want to see what I mean:

What is Drop Shipping by Chris Malta

wrmineo · #2 (**permalink**) 04-22-2005, 12:22 PM

I concur wholeheartedly with your observation.

I think that the better (relevantly) pages are linked within a site is more crucial than irrelevant inbound links or exchanges!

Outside links are still great, but I think Google is placing a value on internal links as well.

There is a plethora of possible rationales, but I believe that the internal linking helps shows relevancy, accessibility, and even authenticity to Google. Sitemaps are great for this, but having textual relevant keyword links between articles and documents has really paid off for me!