I've been reading more and more about SEO through blogs and quality websites. I've come to the conclusion that I'll be able to achieve my goals if I stay dedicated, post quality content, and get plenty of backlinks. Here's the question, let's say I have a blog and want to get search engine traffic for a particular post, would it be better to link directly to the post or to the general website when trying to get backlinks? I would think that linking to the post would be better, but it seems that if I have 100 posts on a website it would be nearly impossible to get a decent number of backlinks for each post. thanks -bowlcutah
Focus you link building mainly on your home page for your site's major keywords and topics. Then try to get a link or two to specific posts. The link juice to the home page will work into the posts to help them out too. If your posts are on the same topic as your main site (but more detailed) then you'll rank easily for each post with just a little bit of effort. If the post's keywords aren't too competitive that should be enough.
i strongly suggest that you focus more on onsite linkbuilding and if you obtain some great quality backlink it is okey for you to link your inner page and perform deep linking strategies that way you make your post rank and at the sametime it complements your index pages.
It is difficult to get backlinks for inner page and make them rank high. A simple rule of thumb is either homepage or inner, more the backlinks it will rank high but the condition is that it should be promoted at appropriate place rest it is ok to rank your website at top for 1000s of inner pages.
You want to focus a large proportion into your homepage but done be put off by building links into posts. This will help feed power into your site from the bottom up.
Depending on what result do you want to achieve you may use either way of linking. See: if you need to promote your homepage (that is, the entire blog) - place links to homepage. But if you need your particular posts promoted, you should obtain links to the posts as well AND build the on-site link structure so that the PageRank of the entire website was focused on the bottom-level pages (that is, posts). You can do that by using non-PR-transferring links - either JS links or links with rel=nofollow - to focus the PageRank of your website on the pages you want.
I have sites with subpages that rank incredibly well for competetive terms & the individual pages don't have many links going to them. They rank well because the main site has plenty of quality links & Google views it as an authority domain. To reiterate what has already been said: Build links to your homepage (and a few choice ones to your key subpages).
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