How serious is Google about internal linking report? Considers the links from sub-directories too?

[vtmoz]

Hi community members,

It's been clearly said by Google to interlink the important pages across the website and they give top interlinked pages in "Links report".

They do consider the links from the sub-directories like example.com/blog, etc. to sum up the internal linking .

But we do employ multiple sub directories and link to various pages which may not be that important to rank, example "terms of use" page at footer section. So, obviously these non-important pages might be over linked as per the search console "internal links report".

Will this make Google to consider the highest linked pages as most important and they try to give ranking importance to them? How about links from sub directories?

Please clarify and share your opinions.

[effectdigital]

The weighting of internal links is vastly inferior to the weighting of external links. I guess if you had no (or very few) external links hitting your site, the internal links might skew Google's view a little. But if some of your pages had even a few robust links coming from off-site (which are perceived as less biased links) then the internal linking wouldn't create any drastic movements. Footer links are often largely discounted, anyway - as they are not prominent and web-users don't often use them