I am new to this so please bear with me. I am looking a site that serves as a searchable directory of organizations offering specific services. A search indicates about 1400 inbound links, but the vast majority of the links are in fact on the original site itself. How is this possible? They offer descriptions of the organization, contact info, etc. These pages show up as inbound links. How can a legitimate inbound link share a URL with the site to which it links? Does this kind of arrangement benefit ranking? This may be simple, but again, I am just getting started. Thanks. You all offer excellent explanations.
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Inbound Link Tomfoolery?
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clueless
, Mar 11 2005 12:24 PM
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Posted 11 March 2005 - 12:58 PM
Welcome, clueless 
You say that all these internal pages have the same URL as the page they're linking to. I expect that's not quite right. They're on the same domain, but if they have the same exact URL, they're all the same page.
For example: the pages http://www.highrankings.com/rates.htm and http://www.highranki...p?showtopic=833 are both on the domain highrankings.com, but they don't share the same URL -- everything after the domain name is different.
Back to your question... it's not uncommon for a site's internal pages to be listed as backlinks to the site's home page. On pretty much any site, every page has a link back to the home page. The reason you only see it on some sites when you do a link: search is because Google's link: operator is just not very accurate. On other search engines (and on Google), there are different ways of finding out which pages link to a given page or domain, and there are options for leaving out pages within that domain from the results.
You say that all these internal pages have the same URL as the page they're linking to. I expect that's not quite right. They're on the same domain, but if they have the same exact URL, they're all the same page.
For example: the pages http://www.highrankings.com/rates.htm and http://www.highranki...p?showtopic=833 are both on the domain highrankings.com, but they don't share the same URL -- everything after the domain name is different.
Back to your question... it's not uncommon for a site's internal pages to be listed as backlinks to the site's home page. On pretty much any site, every page has a link back to the home page. The reason you only see it on some sites when you do a link: search is because Google's link: operator is just not very accurate. On other search engines (and on Google), there are different ways of finding out which pages link to a given page or domain, and there are options for leaving out pages within that domain from the results.
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