Should I Build Links To My Post Page Or Home Page

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by mvcathey, Jul 15, 2010.

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    I am new to promoting a blog and I want to drive traffic to and rank high one of my keyword optimized blog posts. Should I backlink to the post page url or to my blog homepage url?

    Thanks
     
    mvcathey, Jul 15, 2010 IP
  2. petr_ind

    petr_ind Notable Member

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    #2
    build to the homepage first, then to your post page.
    Your post pages are lot, so the backlink will be separated.
    Beside that, usually buyer will look on the homepage.
     
    petr_ind, Jul 15, 2010 IP
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    jitendraag Notable Member

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    Both :) You must continue to build links for the homepage but each new post must get some links.
     
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  4. deeps

    deeps Member

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    approach bloggers of your niche..
     
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  5. MaxwellSmart

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    A great way to build deeplinks is to submit your RSS feed to a variety of RSS directories...it will increase indexing as well as visibility, and build plenty of backlinks to each of your individual posts automatically, each time you make a new one.

    If your site isn't in a blog format, you can make an RSS feed of your pages manually using the icerocket RSS builder (google it)
     
    MaxwellSmart, Jul 16, 2010 IP
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    gauravgrt Peon

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    Depends on what you gives the most importance, just remember that building backlinks to a certain url will increase the value of that url, so its upto you what you want to promote.
     
    gauravgrt, Jul 16, 2010 IP
  7. MaxwellSmart

    MaxwellSmart Peon

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    Nonetheless, building backlinks to your inner pages that contain original content will make your overall SEO effort appear more organic, and therefore increase your site's authority in the eyes of search engines.
     
    MaxwellSmart, Jul 16, 2010 IP
  8. freeseoguide

    freeseoguide Guest

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    maxwell is right... Just ask yourself if it is normal that one website has 1000 pages and links only to homepage. Is that website useful ? Are that 1000 pages of content worth when nobody pointed at any inner page ?
     
    freeseoguide, Jul 16, 2010 IP
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    anhbloginc Well-Known Member

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    Building to your home page first then doing it with your blog post or inner-page to gain good position on search engine result page.
     
    anhbloginc, Jul 16, 2010 IP
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    gordongekko Peon

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    I can't believe some of the advice in these forums! If you want to promote a specific blog post and rank that blog post well for specific keywords, you need to build links with anchor text pointing back to that blog post. If I found a decent blog post and wanted to tell my friends about it I wouldn't link to the homepage would I?
     
    gordongekko, Jul 20, 2010 IP
  11. PaulSch

    PaulSch Active Member

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    Exactly. If I am trying to sell something from an inside blog page then I want backlinks to the specific page not to the homepage and then hope that somebody follows an internal link to the sales page.
     
    PaulSch, Jul 20, 2010 IP
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    speakeasy602 Active Member

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    Why do you people bother responding if you don't know the answer to what the person is asking?

    Most of you got this all wrong. You use your posts and pages to help push specific keywords. You take advantage of title tags, sef urls,, H1s, content links, alt tags in images, etc. Once you have the content and you know what keywords you're going for, then you use the anchor text on your IBLs to solidify the keywords to that page. Your domain still gets credit for links that point to inner pages; it's the difference between linkdomain and pagelinks. If you point everything to your homepage, you'll bottleneck yourself out of some really good keyword opportunities.

    I hope this helps. Please disregard 90% of this thread, it's bad advice.
     
    speakeasy602, Jul 20, 2010 IP
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    My answer is to direct most ib links to the post and some to the homepage - maybe an 80% -20% split.
     
    jimmyedge, Jul 20, 2010 IP