Link popularity / anchor text question

Hi

apologies for a bit of a noob question (again) i just want to clarify something

my site (like most i guess) has the majority of Backlinks coming into the index page - the way i understand it is the amount of links and they're anchor text will benefit the target page (index in this case) in terms of ranking - however my question is this: do these links also effect the ranking of other pages of the site? -
i understand PR is passed along to the other pages so i guess there is some effect but is anything else passed along apart from PR?

Thanks,

 

not directly.

however, that doesn't mean that you can't take advantage of the fact that you have incoming PR to your main page.

let's say you have a PR5 main page. with this, you get, say 100-200 internal pages in google's cache. if you're doing things right, you'll be linking to internal pages from each and every one of these 100-200 pages- and the anchor text you used will be applied to those internal pages.

it can work quite well if you do it right.

 

I guess Disgust has answered this correctly, but I had some problems following his logic. So at the risk of repeating what he just said let me see if I can make it a little more clear.

1. PR is passed to all pages that are linked to, both internal and external. So if all your external inbound links point at your home page, or index page, it will acquire PR value from them.

2. The home page is normally linked to some, or all, of the internal pages. As a result it passes PR to these pages. The higher the PR of the home page, as a result of the external inbound links, the more PR the home page has to pass to the internal pages.

3. If the site is constructed properly, eventually the PR from the home page will be passed down to every page in the site. If every page in the site has a link back to the home page then they all pass some PR back to the home page. So the more the home pages passes down, the more that is eventually passed back.

4. PR is an iterative calculation. That means it is never really finished calculating. Google does it mutiple times before publishing the results. That means that the calculation of the internal pass down/pass back, is done many times. So everytime a new inbound link hits the home page its PR contribution is distributed through all the internal pages.

So the answer is yes. Inbound backlinks do effect the PR of all the pages in a web site assuming the internal linking is properly done.

For more information you may want to read my most recent article on the subject.

 

Nothing for me to add to this then is there lol.

Other than, the anchor text on the links to the home page will not benefit the other pages on the site directly.

 

Are you sure Shawn? I've had some offline dealings with Digust and it has never occurred to me that I was talking to, or working with, a member of the fairer sex.

I think the picture is none conclusive. The subject looks androgynous at best.

But if Digust is really a her then it explains why I'm having trouble with the logic

 

erm... thanks for your answer but that wasn't actually the question - (if you look again you'll see i said "i understand PR is passed along to the other pages so i guess there is some effect but is anything else passed along apart from PR?") but i think everyone's pretty much answered my question -

so lets see if i understand ---
when there are external backlinks to the index page:

they don't pass any of the benefits of their anchor text or link pop to the other pages of the site - but with a correct internal linking system your PR gets passed along to the other pages, thus giving the links on these pages added weight (in terms of their anchor text)
please somoene correct me if i'm wrong.

 

You have that correct. Except I'm not sure whay Link pop is in you vocabulary. I always thought it was a reference to PR . But if you mean relevance value then you are right.

If you think about it, how could it pass. The anchor text points at the target page. It might be totally non relevant to an internal page. I always find logic an invaluable tool when trying to figure these things out.