Backlinks from the same website

[bobitza]

From your experience, how are links coming from the same website "valued" by SEs?

Let's say you have an IBL in the footer of a website; same footer code for all pages. Of course, some pages will have a higher power/pr/etc. than others therefore having a higher value but is there a discount applied to that "default" value when calculating the page juice transferred? Something like for 1-10 pages IBL from same site you get 80% of link juice; 10-100 IBLs you get 40% and so on.

[dozzn]

This may explain why my homepage shows up in google.... along with my "terms and conditions" page .... other pages show up every once in a while...? ... but always terms.and conditions.. which is in the footer...

[claybutler]

Your internal linking structure has an appreciable effect on your PR. I've experimented quite a bit with this and you can definitely increase the PR of deeper pages depending on how you spread your "link juice" (or should that be squirt or pour?)

The exact formula? Who knows? I'd take anyone's definitive answer on that one with a big grain of salt.

[Bernd]

@bobitza

Domainpop remains 1 !
Linkpop is not much better than a BL from the root/startpage only.

[mgk]

I think if someone had the correct answer to this one, we would all be on the top of page one for SE's. I've seen increasing amounts of people doing this, but not sure if its a big waste of time or not. Or is it a case of robbing Paul to pay Peter?

[JoomlaBear]

Internal linking can help dramatically.
Try pointing links back at your homepage using anchor text that contains your primary keywords - being the keywords you want to rank more highly for on your home page.
Links in articles are weighted more highly than footer and sidebar links.

[SEObyCanz]

Internal linking can help dramatically.
Try pointing links back at your homepage using anchor text that contains your primary keywords - being the keywords you want to rank more highly for on your home page.
Links in articles are weighted more highly than footer and sidebar links.

I agree with you JoomlaBear with a slight clarification, links from the page content in general on a page not articles in particular.

Lynny

[mjamrock]

I watched a video from Search Engine Watch from a fellow that attended a Google Conference - of course nobody knows the real Google algorithm but Google admitted that they count back links from the same URL differently than back links from multiple URLs.

The bottom line was, the more back links the better but the more URLs even better.

The video (and your post) got our attention because we own 8 sites that are all heavily crosslinked through footers. What I have seen through my own experience is that crosslinking greatly boosts our crawl rate, gets us indexed quick, and keeps the Google bot coming back.

But it seems a hundred backlinks from one site is not as valuable for PR as a hundred backlinks from a hundred sites.

I will try to find you the video and provide a link so you can watch it too and make up your own mind.

Britt

[mgk]

I agree with you JoomlaBear with a slight clarification, links from the page content in general on a page not articles in particular.

Lynny

So, putting links with your keywords as anchor text on your own link pages, can actually help with SE positioning? Sounds a bit wild.

[morestar]

The question is though, does anyone have a really decent resource (link) to a great tutorial or explanation of how to perform internal linking? This I need to know. Many of the page I don't need to show up in the search results do when there are definitely others that should instead.