Don’t build more links to an internal page than you do your front page.
I don’t question your knowledge but do question the thinking behind that (on Google’s part if that is whom you base your statement) because it would seem to me that if you had something that went viral and people were linking in to it voluntarily and without request … that it would make perfect sense the inner page was getting more links to it than the first page.
Or am I missing something? My thinking being that often what everybody links to … is seldom the front page of that website. In fact most times I follow a link to another website it is to an inner page and not the first page.
I would think that even places like CNN … have more incoming links to a certain article on an inner page than they do to their first page.
Actually now that i think about it … (with few exceptions) any link I have to another site that isn’t there as a link exchange, thank you for a favor(s) or to a sponsor’s site … is to an inner page aiming at some particular article that i used to prove my point.