SEO question

[reggiemental]

Every page on my site is accessible via a main menu however, on many pages I also have links to other site pages, e.g. 'some of our other products' etc. These are just dotted about as reminders of what we provide.

Can this 'weaken' the strength of a page in SEO terms? In other words, if I have a page focussed/optimised on printed envelopes, will having links to other product pages, (other than in the main menu), lessen the impact of that page.

I do the same with tutorial pages. If I've written an article on how to prepare a business card for print, I'll have links to other similar tutorial pages at the bottom of the page, but not sure if that 'harms' the page in any way.

I'm sure it's more useful for the visitor doing things this way but wondered if Google sees it favourably.

I suppose I could just have some text that says 'see the main menu for other tutorials' etc?

What do the experts think?

 

[wykthorr]

Having as many links between pages of the site is actually a good thing as they'll better distribute page rank over the site and that without harming the page that's containing the link.

 

[reggiemental]

Thanks, I wasn't sure so you've put my mind at rest.

 

[PitchYourCase]

It should be fine the way your website is. Just make sure all your links are working and that should be sufficient.

 

[bdw]

My understanding is that Google only counts the first link on any page to a common destination page. That would be the first link that it encounters in the code reading from top to bottom. (Depending on CSS and layout this may not necessarily be the first link that appears on the page.)

There is some quite compelling evidence for this presented here.
http://www.seo-scientist.com/first-link-counted-rebunked.html

The logic behind this:
When Google's robot (Googlebot) indexes a website it is looking for links to other pages so that it can index these too. As it reads the code on any page it follows any links that it finds to the destination page. There would be no point in following a second link to the same page. This would slow the indexing process down.

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[pataktradingpartners]

Hello,


There will be no harm if you put other links on some of your pages, alternatively it will be beneficial from SEO prospective.

 

[eshopwiz]

yeh its all good. makes the site look real.

 

[pataktradingpartners]

Absolutely right said

 

[bdw]

Where is that smell of spam coming from? :|

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[reggiemental]

Thanks for all your replies.

 

[Jeff Knows]

My advice? Stop worrying about SEO.

Google aren't stupid, if humans can navigate your site then so can Google. Popularity more than anything else will drive you up the rankings, you can't code that in HTML.