Does internal links work like external?

qlithe

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Feb 14, 2012

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• Sep 12, 2013

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Let's say my domain has a PR of 5 and I link to one of my posts - does this link work the same way as if I had an external link with a PR of 5 pointing to my post?

And let's say I have an archive with blog posts, does that mean the domain gives power to the archives page -> posts?

 

CoreClub

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Aug 13, 2012

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• Sep 12, 2013

• #2

Yes. That's why you should treat every page on your site like a separate website.

 

gooma2

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Nov 18, 2008

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• Sep 12, 2013

• #3

yup, it's similar when you do that. that's why so many sites now are all nofollow to hold all the linkjuice in to their own pages.

but be careful with how many internal links you have per page as that will dilute the link juice flow to your other pages. I learned that the hard way!

 

Ungodly

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Mar 22, 2012

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• Sep 12, 2013

• #4

A lot of people neglect their internal linking strategy, which is great from a competitive standpoint. Interlinking your content properly will definitely help boost your efforts across the board. As gooma said, just don't overdo it.

 

Endire

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Mar 27, 2012

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• Sep 12, 2013

• #5

Qlithe,

As mentioned by the other members, yes its important. Cutts has a pretty good post on this even though its dated. Some of the concepts are still true.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/

Best,

Shawn

 

gooma2

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• Sep 12, 2013

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this was a great site that showed me how much linkjuice I had along with how many internal links per page too. At one point I had about 150 link on my homepage not realizing it, and stumbled on this which definitely helped me tone all that down.

http://www.ecreativeim.com/pagerank-link-juice-calculator.php