Linking out from the main page?

Are you talking about linking from your home page to your internal pages, or linking from your home page to a page that is not on your website?

I'm assuming it's the second, but it's worded funny. It sounds like you've already answered your own question. It's not required. Google might give you some domain authority credit or something, but I'm not really sure.

You could always get crazy though and if it's something that benefits your sites visitors link to it...

hi
link of internal pages matters, if the home pages is less and inner page link are good then over all ranking going to be good also.

Actually , I know this sounds normal but i dont want my competitors to view my home page and have it link out to all my special pages and find all my good kws that way

also there are too many internal pages to be listed on the home page and I dont see a reason for it

now if they happen to search a kw? and find it listed in google that way? sure no problem they found one of my internal pages
But I dont want some master list linking out from my root domain of those pages

It's natural to link from the homepage to your most important keywords.

But it should also have a natural flow that makes sense on the site.

Hi Outwest.

If you are talking about linking out to authority sites in your niche from the main page, then yes, this is a good thing to do. I have been using two strategies to link out to authority sites:

1) from the home page's sticky post or static page
2) from the footer
3) from a page called "Links" dedicated for this purpose.

The first strategy seems to be working best for me, but you may want to try for yourself.

Also, don't link out to pages that could directly compete with you in the SERPs. For example, if my site's main keyword is "best creatine supplement", I wouldn't link to any site that promotes creatine supplement, but I may link to a Wikipedia page about creatine as a chemical compound.

Many people will tell you to nofollow those links, but I leave them dofollow, I think nofollowing them is not a good strategy.

No I am not talking about linking out to other authority sites, I am speaking stricly of internal linking on my site

Hi that does help somewhat
thanks

this is an adsense site so I dont worry too much about "buying kws"

I am primarily trying to keep my competitors from harvesting a list of all my good kws if they click on my main Root domain, which they will if I link out to all of them IMO

For example with Silos
If I have 30 main silos that are all interlinked within each silo, all linking back to the main silo pages

I dont want to link out to the 30 Silo landing pages from my main page
because a competitor could easily come in and say OH AHH he is going after this kw, that one, that one that one,
I know there are probably software out there that shows them this nothing I can do to prevent this but I would prefer not to lay it all out on a silver platter for them

I think especially the newbie or somewhat new webmasters would not be sophisticated enough to use some of those tools, but certainly if I have a list of all my main Silo kws laid out it would be super easy to take all of them

if they happen to pull up one of my internal pages on google for that kw? sure fine
but I dont want them to easily find a list of all my kws that I am targeting and I feel that If I do link out they will be able to

I know one of my competitors ranks 1,2 on about 500 kws and this is all off of one domain and he certainly doesnt link out from the main page to those main kw landing pages

You don't use an all encompassing sitemap? What prevents those competitors from just looking at your sitemap.xml file?

As which pages of the site hold the best and useful information then try to get the links to those pages and do not worry more for whether it is the main page or the internal page. And provide link to that page and if you get the backlink to any of the page and if visitor find it useful then he/she definitely going to visit the other pages of the site.

A simple site:domain.com search on Google will reveal all your indexed pages/keywords.

Personally I wouldn't worry about it. If competition wants the keywords they'll find them.

I would avoid running the keyword meta tag, that's one of the first things I check on competition to find their keywords, lol.

If I understand correctly, what you're doing is absurd. You're sacrificing user experience, making it harder for your visitors to navigate through your website because you think that's going to stop competitors from figuring out which keywords you're after? There are plenty of ways for competitors to figure out what you're up to - you're just shooting yourself in the foot.

Should I have multiple links from my homepage to each of the Main Pages (as in Links within the content, in a Related posts list under the content, in the Nav Bar, in the sidebar, and in the footer)?

Or is it better to just have ONE link per page to each page I want to channel to juice into?

I appreciate your response, but I don't see it as an either-or issue and trust me, I'm not worrying about it--just looking for answers. I fully intend to do both internal linking and user experience/great content well.