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We are working on a website that has some high-quality industry articles available on their website.

For each article, there is an abstract with a link to the PDF which is hosted on the domain.

We have found in Analytics that a lot of sites link directly to the PDF and not the webpage that has the abstract of the article.

Can we get any benefit from a direct PDF link? Or do we need to modify our strategy?

In the last month, 8 - 10 links of varied anchor text. Roughly 100 pages on the site.

There was a followed link to the homepage on the powerful internal page as well as a nofollow. I removed nofollows and made the first link per html code an anchor text link to the homepage.

Only changes I have made over the last month is written articles and obtained links from quality sites. I highly doubt it has to do with something else than this immediate change.

Hi Ryan,

The homepage dropped from #8 to #16 -- why would that happen?

Thanks man. Hopefully the homepage gets reindexed soon. I will post results here in a week.

So the internal page has a PA of 67 -- homepage 55.

Internal page has already been indexed, waiting on the homepage to be indexed.

Thanks for your insight

Thanks Activity -- The amount of links (and high quality) pointing to the internal page are so strong that I don't think it will drop?? I do want to give link juice to the homepage as its' keyword is more important. It will be interesting to see what happens; how Google handles internal links that were nofollowed for years -- how fast do they react??

Hi Todd,

You need to visit each of these pages and make sure that they do not include "noindex" or "nofollow"

They should all be "index, follow"

In Wordpress there is a great SEO plugin: http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/

Hope that helps and let me know if you need anymore clarification.

I just started with a client, who has an internal page (not the homepage) that gets about 70% of all total links to the site and ranks #1 for a highly competitive keyword.

For some reason, the first set of links, including the first anchor text link to the homepage are nofollowed. I removed the nofollows yesterday.

Today, The internal page has already been reindexed in Google showing the followed anchor text link to the homepage

Should I expect a jump in link juice pointing to my homepage immediately with a corresponding rankings boost? Homepage is #8 for target term.

I hope this makes sense. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for responding Daniel.

We use an alt text of "home" but not the keyword.