Does having multiple links to the same page influence the Link juice this page is able to pass

[TjeerdvZ]

Say you have a page and it has 4 outgoing links to the same internal page. In the original Pagerank algo if these links were links to an page outside your own domain, this would mean that the linkjuice this page is able to pass would be devided by 4.

The thing is i'm not sure if this is also the case when the outgoing link, is linking to a page on your own domain. I would say that outgoing links (whatever the destination) will use some of your link juice, so it would be better to have 1 outgoing link instead of 4 to the same destination, the  the destination will profit more form that link.

What are you're thoughts?

[sesertin]

I think the pagerank it forwards can be the same, but if you link to your own pages that does not affect your rankings as much as if you do it from some other domain.

[RobertFisher]

Link juice is divided among links and effects internal and external links. Most data supports internal linking being very important for this reason among several.

[TjeerdvZ]

Hi Robert,

Thank you for your answer. I was already thinking in this direction but needed some reassurance. I'm currently tackling some of our internal linking issues, this being one of them. Basically we are throwing away pagerank with 4 link to the same page.

[AlanMosley]

Reagrdless of external or internal. lets say you have 4 links

Link 1 goes to page A

Link 2 goes to page B

Link 3 goes to page C

Link 4 goes to page C

Lets leave out that the first lionk passes a bit more then the second, page C will get 50% of the PR.

But it will only get the link text relevancy of the first link to it.

But if you linked to page C like this

pagec.html#someAnchor

and

pagec.html#someotherAnchor

then you will get the link text relevancy for both links