“Types of dup include multiple URLs going to same page…”

The discussion was realting to dup content and “page” was referring to “content” (ie 2 different URLs for the same content causes dup content issues).

And to try and salvage some relevance from this post (:)) I do agree with Adam’s comments on your blog – from a user point of view, confusing link structure is a turn off.

Adam on Links

Plus the creation of mini hubs within a site is just good logical design – integration (for example) blog posts that feed category news headlines to mini hubs can create great entry points for a site that are much more likely to encourage natural linking.

It’s really the difference between bog standard dry SEO (the same keyword in H1, title, links, etc) and more advanced SEO-meets-marketing, which IMO is the way forward as “templated” SEO is becoming more antiquated.

For example, page2 links to page1 with a link from the first paragraph- Z-28 LT1 Modifications

page3 links with How to Perk up Your LT1

page4 links with More Added Horsepower Bolt-ons for LT1 Engines

etc. All in-context, all relevant, and from pages on how to increase horsepower for Z-28 LT1 engines.

I like to create mini-authority pages within the site. In addition, create a mini-hub, where a single page that links to all the LTI horsepower increase techniques.

The rather than try to acquire inbound links to the homepage, I can concentrate on acquiring links to the mini-hub page, and gain better control over what pages I promote in the SERPs.

I read on the various PubCon posts that named anchors are treated as such (and don’t cause duplicate content).

Therefore:

http://www.example.com/page1.htm
http://www.example.com/page1.htm#widget
http://www.example.com/page1.htm#stuff

…would all be viewed as the main URL http://www.example.com/page1.htm (ignoring the #element) and not cause duplication, but would be seen as 3 URLs pointing to the same page (from the same source).

I’m sure that example is used frequently and innocently.

Another example – you have regular text link to a page, and maybe an image (advert) promoting that page also – fair use.

In these cases (and IMO even the example of the 2 page sales pitch type site) the links do suggest where the important content is held and as such number of links to any page from any one other page may be a factor (to a certain extent before it gets labelled as spam).

I’m not too up to speed with the technical nitty gritty of the PR algo – does it go into detail about same-page multi-linking?

MG

With that said, I still think that much more attention needs to be paid to link structures. When is it necessary to have two or more links on the same page point to another page? I see that technique used often on MLM sites that usually consist of two pages, the home page, which is usually a long text page, and the action page, which is linked to several times from the home page. For example, ‘Make Money From Home” as anchor text used 15 times on the home page pointing to the action page.

I also see the same technique used by people that want several phrases with different keywords in anchor text on one page. I don’t like either technique.

Granted, that wasn’t the question being asked by the original poster, (although that intent could be inferred from the poster’s choice of phrasing).

So, what does it say to a search engine when a single page has 2 or 5 or 8 links pointing to another page? How does that affect the flow of PageRank (or page importance if you prefer)?