link structure & juice

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hi guys,

just trying to fully grip the concept of link juice as I keep optimizing my Amazon site. Here's my scenario:

Home Page has links to product 1, product 2 and product 3.

All 3 product pages have a link at the bottom that points them back to the home page. (i.e. "click to go back to home page")

Now if I'm building all my backlinks to the home page it would send juice onward to all 3 product pages. But what if I'm building backlinks directly to the product pages as well? Does that in turn pass link juice back to the home page?

If so, would the home page take that link juice and repass it back to those pages? Almost like a circle? or is just a single direction type of distribution?

Thanks and hope this question isn't too confusing!
#search engine optimization #juice #link #structure
  • you are correct. like a circle.
  • The search engine bots will keep following the links in a circle and this will make for an effective flow of link juice. It's called siloing.
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    • No? A silo structure is made to keep everything hyper targeted - in such a way that Amazon does. Amazon will only link to very specific categories from broad categories.

      E.G. TV > LCD TV > 55"-60" TV's

      The homepage will only link to "TV".

      To OP... If it's a small site, don't worry too much about it. I have some parts of my Amazon sites silo structured, but I don't fuss over it at all. For example:

      www.foodprocessor.com
      www.foodprocessor.com/recipes/ (linked in navbar sitewide)
      www.foodprocessor.com/recipes/smoothie1 (only linked to from recipes page)
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  • Its rotating like a circle
  • Don't forget to wiite useful articles
  • Silo seems the way to go!

    Are blogging platforms good for this? I'm currently using Yola for sake of time management, but I think I have some limits on how I can do subcategories to those categories URL wise. I think I've found some wordpress plugins and will probably move my site and content there unless I can find a way around it!

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