Hello, friends. First post from an amateur website owner. I have a small, nonprofit bible study site with about 60 pages and a currently humble page rank 2. Stat Counter shows I'm getting about 200 page loads daily from about 60 unique visitors. On the home page (http://www.jimfeeney.org) I link to only some of the bible studies, basically those I wish to feature. The rest of my pages I link to from the sitemap and from some other pages. My question to you knowledgeable people is this: Let's say (1) I add a new bible study page today. (2) I post an internal link to it from my home page to get it noticed quickly by Google, which seems to crawl my homepage daily or every second day. (3) I wait a few days to ensure that Google has discovered my new page from the link on my home page. (4) Then I remove that link from the home page, leaving it linked to from the sitemap and perhaps another page. (Remember, I'm new at this) Is this ethical? Is this an acceptable SEO practice? In essence, I'm trying to get each new bible study page discovered quickly by Google via the home page, then removing that home page link after a few days. I haven't done it yet, as I'm awaiting some expert advice. Thanks.
Nothing wrong with that. It would be like a news site adding content and as the days go by the old news is archived and removed from the home page. Completely ethical.
FWIW that is my SOP - I do a weekly "what's new" list, which cycles down the next week to "what was new," which disappears the next week. Everything's still accessible somewhere else.