Non homepage pages

[KevinC.]

I just discovered something. I have a homepage and five important subpages that are now indexed with inktomi. These subpages are very different and link to about 100 other pages.

I went on MSN and typed in a search term. I couldn't figure out why I was rated 10th and a competitor 5th.

What rated 10th for me, was not my homepage, but one of the 5 important subpages. And to be honest, this subpage is even a better place for customers to end up, even better than the homepage.

What I discovered though, through linkpopularity check was that my homepage (which did not come up on this particular search) had 47 links to MSN, while the subpage had zero. The competitor who beat me out had only 6 links to msn.

What a drag that links back to your site are not counted for all your pages back to your site but only the homepage! Is my analysis correct? That if my homepage appeared in this search term, it would have ranked much better, and hence; maybe it's a waste to put effort and money into having these other important pages indexed. I could have lots of great links pointing to my site, but not it appears they are only counted towards the one homepage.

If this is correct, then I really have to beef up titles and text on homepage?
Any comments. thanks!

Kevin C.

[KevinC.]

PS

Let me clearify or ask one more thing for this thread, to make sure I don't have it screwed up.

If your homepage (example only) is like www.dogs.com
and this site has a good link popularity.

And If you have a subpage called: www.dogs.com/labador.htm
and this subpage comes up on a search term, does the subpage receive the ranking boost popularity which the homepage www.dogs.com receives?
Perhaps it may, I have no idea, this is what I need to find out.

thanks again

Kevin.

[KevinC.]

PSS. Sorry, to www.dogs.com ; it is a real page, just using the name as an example. Kevin

[Javi]

I'd like to know the answer to this too :)

Anyone know?

[ihelpyou]

PR is distributed down from the front page normally. If the front page is a PR5, then the sub may be a 4 or 3. It all depends on many things. Too many to worry about. Just build a good, quality site that others want to link to and you will be just fine and dandy!

Sheesh... just noticed this thread was an old one. I cannot believe it never got an answer back in March?? Come on you guys, Get with the Programmmmm!!!! :eek:

[Alan Perkins]

PR is distributed down from the front page normally. If the front page is a PR5, then the sub may be a 4 or 3. The question was about Inktomi and MSN. Now who needs to get with the Programmmmm???? :eek:

[ihelpyou]

LOL. Sooo many questions about PR and Google......

[JustTrying]

If I'm not mistaken, links to internal pages are included as being links to the primary domain, and it is therefore difficult to tell what individual pages have links.

For example, in MSN, the query:

linkdomain:www.ihelpyouservices.com/forums/index.php -domain:www.ihelpyouservices.com

returns:

Sorry, no results were found containing linkdomain:www.ihelpyouservices.com/forums/index.php -domain:www.ihelpyouservices.com

yet, the query:

linkdomain:www.ihelpyouservices.com -domain:www.ihelpyouservices.com

returned 297 results; even though most of the links are to the page www.ihelpyouservices.com/forums/index.php

I really wish that there was a way to segregate the incoming lins for individual pages...but I'm not aware of a way as of now. Anybody?

Having said all of the above, I am positive that the major Link-Based Search Engines (Google in particular) do rank an internal page based on the links to that particular page, and not as you asserted (that all links to internal pages get assigned to the hompage).

Concerning MSN (Inktomi), even though they do not place as much weight on the linking relationships as other engines (i.e. Google, Teoma, Wisenut) in their algo, they still evaluate pages opposed to sites (although there is some controversy over this issue I think, especially between the likes of Mike Grehan and Brett Tabke IMO).

I would be curious for other posters input into this situation with MSN...