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Old 07-03-2008, 05:51 AM
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At the bottom of my homepage before the footer I have a few links pointing to internal pages Businesses for Sale - Buy or Sell Australian Business for Sale . Should I remove these links to keep pr on my homepage?

Any other suggestions for my on page SEO would be appreciated.

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Old 07-03-2008, 08:14 AM
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I may be confused, but how does having links on your homepage take away PR?

I would hate to see a site with no links on the homepage.
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Old 07-03-2008, 08:16 AM
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any kind of internal links are bound to benefit your site- thats why wikipedia always ranks as high as it does, it also adds to the user experience which is always a positive

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Internal linking is highly important. it allows the PR to flow through the site and it also creates topical relevance for each page. I get the impression that you are focusing on the home page for the wrong reasons. It shouldnt always be the home page that appears for a search but rather the most relevant page from your site (which should be the one which you have tailored to that particular phrase). One of the ways to attach a page to a keyword is to link to it (from within and from outside of your site) using that keyword.

Do you catch my drift?
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Should I remove these links to keep pr on my homepage?
You do not need to remove them. Stop being so fixed on that damn PR and concentrate on your visitors needs.
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I think you should add few effective keywords in your title tag and h1 tags.
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I get the impression that you are focusing on the home page for the wrong reasons. It shouldnt always be the home page that appears for a search but rather the most relevant page from your site
I agree with the above. In fact, some of the most successful sites can easily have 90% of its traffic to pages other than the homepage.
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