Do Incoming links from the same URL have less weight than...

[wahmjennie]

[sugarrae]

[wahmjennie]

So it is considered "illigimate" to have a link to your home page on all pages of your website? say if you have newsletter archives and for the sake of your visitors have a link back to your home page as well as the index page for all the newsletter archives. Is this not legitimate and hurtful to page rank?

If you're building the website for your visitors when do you know something like this will negatively affect your page rank?

I know smart pages can be considered "bad" by some standards, but if the pages within my site are quality content pages like archives for my newsletter is it still considered the same as smart pages?

[Andre Chaperon]

[Lynn Terry]

Dont worry about PageRank.

Anything that is good for your visitors (such as obvious navigation) is fine for the search engines.

When it comes to SEO, and seeking Inbound Links to your individual pages, seek links from relevant web pages outside of your domain. Links from within your domain are not bad, and should be there for the purpose of navigation & usability - but for SEO, concentrate more on "quality inbound links" from other domains.

[StephenR.]

[Andre Chaperon]

[StephenR.]

[pschlegel]

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Paul Schlegel

[sugarrae]

"PageRank is not important"

IMHO, pagerank is still a part of the algo. But, TBPR (toolbar PR - the green line they show to us webmasters) means jack .

[wahmjennie]

ok. I know smart pages are generated by software for the sole purpose of boosting traffic. I also know these pages are automitically generated "directory" pages based on a keyword phrase.

So I guess my next question is this:

when do "directory" pages cross over from legitimate to illigitimate?

for example, smart pages are a little like directory pages, meaning they provide a list of other websites related to a keyword (much like a google search does).

many of you and me and even google consider these automatically generated "directory" pages (based on a keyword) as illigitimate. Yet aren't google pages just that? automatically generated pages based on a keyword phrase?

Interesting.

But, if you want to get traffic from google you have to play by their rules which are rather vague, thus this discussion.

Am I running around in circles yet? I'm good at that!

So the name of the game if I'm reading this correctly is not that directory pages are not valuable to the visitor (since google itself is a directory and is very valuable to many people) but to be sure if you do choose to build a directory keyword page that you do it with the right intent?

So again, back to this question: If you are building a directory page, when does it cross over from legitimate to illigitimate?

I really don't stress over this question, and it really only matters if you are building directory pages that you feel are of interest to your visitors, but it makes for an interesting discussion any way.

[VacationGuy]

[Andre Chaperon]

[Lynn Terry]

Just a little clarification between "PageRank is not important" and "Dont worry about PageRank"... PageRank is important, and part of the algo as Rae mentioned - but it's something that will happen naturally if you do the rest of the steps. Not something you should necessarily focus on "achieving".

I recently read a paper titled PageRank Uncovered which was very interesting. You can get the link to download it and also hear a few of my random thoughts on the topic at this recent blog post: .

[nuttymarketer]

I think we guys are so much engrossed with Page rank that we forget the real cause with which we started a website. It is to add value. Marketing and SEO is great but you can not make these thing artificially.

It is old way of hard work to get higher rank in SEs. So just down and work hard, not just hard but smart.

Google Page Rank can wait and let the Google people think over it.

Arvind Kumar