Hi there, I have a wordpress blog about drop shipping business. I have many posts on it. I built backlinks for the home page and for the internal posts. my question is: should I have backlinks for the home page if I want to rank internal posts. will home page backlinks help rank internal posts or not.
Thanks indeed
There is this thing called Link Juice (also known as Google PageRank) that flows around through the links on the web. It also flows inside of your website from one page to another one through your links. That Google PageRank can be used to tell Google that one page is more important than another page. Google assumes that a page with more of this PageRank is probably more important than a page with less of it. So you can tell Google which pages are more important simply by controlling which pages you point the most links at from inside your own site.
Do you understand what I am saying?
Basically, whatever pages on your site have the most links pointing to them will be the pages that Google thinks are more important. Those are the pages that will tend to rank the highest. There are other factors that enter into the equation, but PageRank is a very important factor.
So when you are creating links inside your own website, think about which pages you want to try to get to rank the highest. Then point more internal links at those pages and less internal links at pages you don't necessarily want to rank that high.
Your homepage usually acquires a lot of PageRank for two primary factors. Most websites have at least one link pointing to their homepage from every other page on the site. And, your homepage tends to be one of the most often linked to pages from other websites that link to you. Therefore, your homepage tends to build up more of this PageRank.
You can use that rank boosting PageRank from your homepage to boost other internal pages on your site. To do that you simply place a link from your homepage to those other pages you want to rank high. Also, when building links inside your own website, it is safe to use whatever anchor text you want to. Therefore you should take advantage of that opportunity to create keyword rich links to those pages.
