Do in page links pointing to the parent page make the page more relevant for that term?

[James77]

Here's a technical question.

Suppose I have a page relevant to the term "Mobile Phones".

I have a piece of text, on that page talking about "mobile phones", and within that text is the term  "cell phones".

Now if I link the text "cell phones", to the page it is already placed on (ie the parent page) - will the page gain more relevancy for the term "cell phones"??

Thanks

[IM_Learner]

Hmmm..probably i misunderstood your "parent" question. No value will be passed if link points to the current page.

[James77]

Yes - this is what I would expect - however reading http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/3-ways-to-avoid-the-first-link-counts-rule indicates to me there are still a lot of loopholes in the alogrithm, and I was just wondering if this had ever been tested.

Thanks

[SuperGroup]

(The confusion stems from the use of the words 'parent page'.)

But no, it's highly unlikely that a page can pass value/relevancy for a particular keyphrase to itself. The whole point in linking, after all, is to link one page to another.

[James77]

Thanks.
But are you sure that this is the case even when the link is point to the current page?

[IM_Learner]

Definitely. Each link is counted as a vote and internal links help in making the page look more relevant but the link should not be out of context.