Importance of Internal Linking

[John Scott]

Originally Posted by gfriedm1

just read through your internal linking article. good information, but here is what i didn't understand.

in the beginning you used monster.com as your example saying that the word jobs does not appear anywhere on the site. but if you view source the meta tags read:

plus the title tag has the word jobs in it.

That article is years old, it was originally posted on Internet-Marketing-Research.net, so I would guess two or three years old. Monster.com has changed a bit since then.

Originally Posted by gfriedm1

but here is my real question. I am developing a site www.prepaid-cards-phonecards.com. On the homepage is my calling cards and at the bottom i have another link to each calling card page. If the link already exists on the page, does adding another link to the same location weaken the power of the link?

No.

[WagerX]

Originally Posted by JohnScott

I wrote something on Internal Linking quite a while ago.

Basically, site-wide links are not ideal. A directory type internal linking architecture is much better for SEO.

Great article about internal linking, makes perfect sense. A true gem. I didn't consider the link distribution weight until now. I've been linking to FAQS, TOS, Security policies from sitewide footer links. I've got to go back with that in mind and redo the internal link structure.

One question I have is this: Let's say I have a site >mysiteurl.com and in it I use prefix >http:www.mysiteurl.com/ for internal links.. to ease the pain of having to modify the prefix on variable deep folders throughout the site.

Do the search engines consider it an external link or do they recognize them as an internal link (from within the same url)??

[Kasparoff]

If your website's topic is focused and consistent throughout, then, yes, you will get a lot of benefit from internal linking structure. If your website's topic is inconsisten, link in a web directory, than, no, you won't get benefit except spidering and indexing.

[Saadh]

Just great, I thought I was starting a new thread after reading this one...hehe nice way for me to get my first post

Sorry.