USA282 said: If the majority of high authority backlinks are pointing directly to the https://www.example.com instead of https://www.example.com/blog , does it make sense that the inner pages which are linked directly to the homepages will gain more seo effect or it doesn't matter at all? Click to expand...

Honestly, I think a lot of it has to do with how you build the "blog" page. If you're just using the default wordpress category page, then I don't think it's really of much value - and I would noindex it.However, of late, I've been trying to rank my category / archive pages for relevant low competition LSI's & long tails. My thought being, get them to that page & then entice them to not bounce & read all the related articles.I basically write a whole 'nother long form article that shows up on the page. I manually insert links to some articles & then let the theme display everything as it normally would.