Say I have a site where 95% of the inbound links go directly to the homepage with a variety of anchor texts. The other 5% point towards internal pages of my site. How do the search engines view this? Is this ratio too big? But more importantly how will this affect my rankings for: a) the homepage b) my internal pages Any and all comments welcome.
it depends what keyword you focus to rank... deep linking is used to gain PR and to index your pages fastly.
Im a big fan of internal links, a rising tide floats all ships. Try and get a larger % then 5 for internal pages, the higher the better. All your internal pages should have a link to the homepage with your primary anchor, so your internal links also give the homepage a good boost as well.
how many links are there on your home page? google does not suggest using more than 100 outgoing link on one page. oer this number your site may be cosidered as link farm
I agree with sweetfunny. I think the higher the % the better and I often build links for pages where the page itself doesn't need a boost, just for maintaining a good % of links to internal pages. And as said, the benefit ripples through the whole site anyway. 'Real-life' links - those that people just add to their sites without prompting - are rarely to the homepage, but almost always to individual posts/articles/pages, and that's the position you are aiming to recreate.
Thanks for the input all. Do most of you deeplink by just finding deeplink directories or do you try to cultivate other deeplinks?
I guess its a combination of deeplink directories, article marketing, link baiting with some great content, buying links and all the other methods of link building. Nearly all the generic link building strategies can be adjusted to target specific pages of your site.
getting backlinks to your inner pages is really helpful.............., it helps inners pages to be indexed faster and crawled frequently. It also helps get good pr and ranking for inner pages.