Tips for Internal Linking Structure

MarcusWrite · #1 07-14-2010, 06:41 PM

- Make sure that your most important pages are linked from all of your other pages.

- If you are using graphical, Java Script or Flash based navigation and link buttons, then create text links on the bottom of all your pages.

- Try to include keywords in your text links to your internal pages. This will tell the search engines what your pages are about.

DaveSpencer · #2 07-16-2010, 10:39 AM

Some basic, but good tips mentioned there.

The reason why MarcusWrite mentioned about using text links down the bottom of all your pages if your using graphical, JavaScript or Flash based navigation is because the search engines normally doesn't understand this language. This means your links would not work well with your SEO if you didn't include these text links down the bottom of your pages.

alevin46 · #3 08-13-2010, 10:27 AM

Hello Friends........

Internal linking structure plays a key role in On Page Optimization. Search engine spiders will crawl your web site from home page to remaining internal web pages. This process knows as spidering or crawl.

Thanks

cpace32 · #4 08-13-2010, 08:44 PM

Text links are good, as well as good alt tags for images/links.

StoneWilson · #5 12-28-2010, 12:01 PM

Nice tips, text links always the good way for seo.

williamslicer · #6 01-05-2011, 11:17 AM

interesting tips.the tips are really helpful to the newbies for their web designing.

bobwillz · #7 01-05-2011, 11:35 AM

Nice tips..and i must say internal link structure of your site can have a massive impact on the ranking in search engines. This is especially true if you have a large authority site. You can effectively improve the ranking of the internal webpages by making changes to internal links within your site. You are actually boosting the ranking of certain pages by diverting the link juice from important pages of the site

neoro · #8 01-06-2011, 01:23 PM

great tips. would love to read. good to apply

nilson1 · #9 03-24-2011, 05:44 AM

Great Tips!!! Thanks for sharing this useful information with all of us.Keep sharing more tips in the future.

tanja · #10 03-25-2011, 02:53 PM

Nothing new for me, but thanks anyway. Hope your tips will be rather useful for the beginners and help them to be experts in the question of eternal linking.

bermuda · #11 03-28-2011, 01:45 PM

Using basic and plain text based links, especially while making footer links or sitemap pages of websites can be important always. Some websites are also powered by image links powered by Alt tags or attributes and they too are doing well today but sticking to static forms of solutions is the key.

Even if your website is consisted of tens of thousands of pages, but they are connected to each other through text links on stable and static pages, both people as well as search engines would quickly find and visit them.

seosignature · #12 05-29-2011, 01:16 PM

internal linking is one of the best techniques in SEO.

tahir.1990 · #13 05-30-2011, 10:39 AM

Very nice tips,but any suggestion on external linking for seo?

eliza189 · #14 07-25-2011, 07:11 AM

As far as I know very high importance has the first link found on any page. So if you want to tweak internal linking make use of the very first link you place on your page.

ezbrowse.uk · #15 07-26-2011, 10:04 AM

Internal link structure should be monitored properly during website creation. It shouldn't be hazardous both for users and search engines to surf these. For better interlinking structure one should follow some instructions, few are,

1. Link Categorization

This site feature is technically termed as ‘navigability’. While developing a website for success, you should pay careful attention to the categories and subcategories that you create.

2. Anchor Text

The next important thing that you need to consider is the anchor text linking of your website. Today’s users are smarter. Anchor text links like ‘Click Here’ are almost dead. Webmasters should try to use anchor text that entice users to click links. You should use call-to-action anchor text like ‘creating an ad campaign’, ‘improve direct mail response’, ‘designs that really work’ etc.

3. Redundancy

Here, redundancy refers to repetition of links. You should not link the same page double or three times from the same place. For example, placing a ‘Read More’ link under a post title which already links to the corresponding page is redundancy.

4. No-follow Attributes

While setting up the internal structure of a website, you will come across multiple links which are not so important. There may be some page links to which you do not want to pass on page rank. How do you solve this? For the very purpose, you have the no-follow tags available to you.

5. Sitemap

An important part of a site’s internal link structure is the creation of a well-defined sitemap. A sitemap keeps informed both search engines and people. It is a good idea to create both – a static sitemap (for users) and an XML sitemap (for search engines). Since well-explained sitemaps keep the search engines informed, it also helps obtain higher rankings.

6. Accessibility

Do not bury important web pages in deep links. Both in terms of usability guidelines and SEO, all the important pages on your site should not be more than two clicks away from the homepage. Search engines love to visit pages that are*easily accessible from the website’s homepage.

7. Dangling Links

Do not have web pages that prove to be a dead-end for users. Would you like the search engine spider to crawl a page which has ‘nowhere to go’? These links can be termed as dangling links. If you have such pages on your site, you need to optimize them appropriately to improve the inner link structure.

8. Broken Links

Keep a close watch on all the internal links of your website to keep them error-free. Make sure your site does not have any error pages like 404 or ‘Not Found’. There are various tools that you can use to detect such pages on your website. Fix these error pages as soon as you find them.

aarensmith · #16 09-23-2011, 08:19 AM

Great tips, text links always the good way for seo.

Randi · #17 01-23-2012, 07:46 AM

It is important to to overload the site with the link, internal and external.

dianna · #18 02-06-2012, 05:27 AM

internal linking is good to get high page rank in search engines

pullupbanner · #19 02-06-2012, 01:19 PM

internal linking helps in keyword ranking.....................

saira · #20 02-10-2012, 06:28 AM

tips for internal linking:-
1.While developing a website, take care about categories and subcategories you create.
2.Anchor Text should be optimized and relevant so that we can move to the page we want with the help of that text.
3.Do not hide important web pages in deep links.
4.Imperative pages on your site should not be more than two clicks away from the homepage.