Tricky Linkbacks?

I read somewhere that if you put a link at the bottom of your forum that points to another part of your forum, that it keeps the bots on your site longer, thus creating a higher SEO.

Is this generally true, or am I getting it all wrong?

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That's not true for all the bots.

For instance google seems that the reason that it will stay for a long time or it will visit frequently your site depends on your link popularity.

So I suppose the best is to have incoming links from other sites pointing to different parts of your site

So you don't even have to worry that those other links get clicked or not for SEO? (only if you are selling or want actual human eyes)

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Yeah that's right (if I got right what you said)

Something that may considered(forgot to mention before) is how much levels is your site's depth.

For example an eshop has Category (level 1), subcategory (level 2), product listings (level 3), product detail (level 4)

This site would be more difficult to get indexed than a site with this link depth :
Category - subcategory (in one page), listings, product details.

This is because at least the first times that a bot crawls your site, it wont follow all the links depth. And if your site is very big but has no link popularity, it may delay a lot of time to crawl it all.

In these cases a good solution is a google sitemap.

Ah yes, the google XML sitemap!

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