Originally Posted by PornMD

I dunno - curious about this myself. I see a lot of sites in general do this - i.e. putting a link in the footer with particular anchor text they want to rank for that links to the home domain. I'm sure with some sites it's a sitewide link (i.e. Wordpress footer or blogroll in sidebar) and anchor text with internal links is supposed to be very important, but with linking a page to itself I don't see how it would be.