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Links to deep pages good for Homepage ranking?

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EduardoRuiz last edited by

Hello Moz community.

My question today is: if I got great backlinks with anchor text "abc" coming to a deep resource page in my site, will these links help my homepage rank for keyword "xyz"?

In other words, are all links (regarless of anchor text) coming to a site helpful for the homepage to rank for its main keyword?

Thanks.
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Atomicx last edited by

Directly no...but indirectly yes. The links going to your site will boost your domain authority. While it will not boost your homepages page authority, it will boost the domain authority which can help with your ranks
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