Aug 31 2011
How to Improve Your Blog’s Internal Linking Structure
It is important for you to have a good internal linking structure in place before you start working on your external links to help your SEO as well as your audience navigate your site. Therefore, the question is: how is it possible to add more value while also improving the structure of a blog’s internal links? The article below will show you. Create good link building services too. Links can be implemented in a variety of ways that can also be highly effective on your blog. When you’re internally linking pages, you should make sure that you’re not linking to the same page twice or thrice from the same page. Some people push the limit with this by using themes or plugins that create never-ending link loops on a page. Your anchor text should not be so general as to create confusion. The bottom line is you need to make your audience happy and not annoy them with unnecessary links. You will naturally create a more cohesive structure for your navigation links by eliminating the redundancy factor. Easy Access: You need to make the most important posts and pages on your blog easily accessible, meaning that you don’t want them buried behind too many deep links. To make your users happy and for the best SEO results, your most important articles should never be deeper than two clicks from your home page. Search engines favor those pages that are easily accessible from the homepage. You’ll see that many blogs tend to have a section in their sidebar where they have links to their popular posts; you can do the same. So keeping this in mind, select all the high priority pages on your blog and link to them from the main page. Like before, it can be done manually or automatically with a plugin. Write a Summary: You can also create summary posts regularly featuring links to your most recent and best articles, with a small description of each one. This is another chance for you to add some great internal links to your blog while also making life easier for your readers, so those who are new can find your best content and those who have been visiting your blog for a while can catch up on anything they may missed. With a link summary, you will guarantee more traffic for some of your older posts while also ensuring that search engine spiders also see them. It is important that you always look for new ways to create links to older articles. You should add links to any text that is relevant to an older post. Do not think that the little items will not play a part in site link structure because they do. Actually, the positive SEO points you score will do their part in your rankings. You’ll not only be able to drive better organic traffic to your blog, but even your visitors won’t have any problem while navigating.
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