Importance of Internal Linking

[ppokyh]

Lately I have been wondering how important internal linking is... I know mine is very pathetic.

Is it as important as external linking?

[gobeyond]

It is probably not as important as quality external links, but it is better than not having them.

Good internal links are helpful to spiders to find all your pages. Also, it helps by including keywords in the anchor texts of the links.

[JamieJelly]

if you don't have sound internal linking, your subpages will have a tough time getting indexed.

[PaulJames]

Link all internal pages and use a sitemap, its good practice

[Web Gazelle]

When setting up internal linking I like to do a couple things..

Make sure no page is more than 3 pages deep (2 links to get to it)

Make sure there is a static text link pointing to every page and the anchor text has keywords in it.

Internal links can effect your rankings and when done right they can help improve your rankings.

[etech-peter]

Search engines can spider all of your pages with the help of internal linking. It may also increase your web site’s ranking at search engines. It may not be the most important SEO tool, but it is certainly a contributing factor and easy to do.

[Ferre]

Apart from what the above posters have stated, you need internal linking for your HUMAN VISITORS, yes, that's right, humans visit your site too and when you make your site easy browsable for them they will stay longer at your site. In my opinion that's even more important than search bots.

[colinfu76]

Originally Posted by PaulJames

Link all internal pages and use a sitemap, its good practice

where do i can get the sitemap to link all my internal link?

and how site map work..thanks

[Web Gazelle]

Originally Posted by Ferre

Apart from what the above posters have stated, you need internal linking for your HUMAN VISITORS, yes, that's right, humans visit your site too and when you make your site easy browsable for them they will stay longer at your site. In my opinion that's even more important than search bots.

So does that mean my <meta name="humans" content="noindex, nofollow"> is a bad tag?

[sitionweb]

Originally Posted by Web Gazelle

So does that mean my <meta name="humans" content="noindex, nofollow"> is a bad tag?

Should be!!

Internal link are so important because make easy user's like while he's surfing in our website.

And, of course, a happy user is important for our popularity.

Talking strictly in SEO terms, internal links are less importants than external ones... so if you wonna get a great position in Google's serp, do everything to increase your link popularity...

My 2 cents...

[Manish Pandey]

Yes, its also as important as any external link...(one way, recis)... always try to make internal links from all the other pages of your website to your most imprtant pages of the website... like the home page ...etc... and link them with the proper 'anchor text' your primary keyword!

Take care

Manish

[Web Gazelle]

Originally Posted by sitionweb

Should be!!

I will remove it then.

[adamx8]

The internal links will definetly make your visitors stay longer and that is so important especially when you are trying to sell more than one thing. I always ask for feedback from customers on ways to improve. They like as many opportunites to get to everything so I have a couple of navigational bars on every page. To me it's all about the customers and them passing my site on to someone else when they are done. Always allow as much internal linking as you can!

[ScottFish]

Internal linking is very important!

Don't forget to link to inner pages from anchor text within content and not just a from a navigation bar.

I have built sites before with no nav bar and only inner page links from within content block, this seems to work well actually.

[jdw4jesus]

This is a great topic to read and learn from! To all who have given advice, THANK YOU!

[John Scott]

Originally Posted by PaulJames

Link all internal pages

What do you mean by that? Are you suggesting that all internal pages link to all other internal pages?

[sitionweb]

IMHO he/she suppose to link all the internal pages from the home page and viceversa...

That's the way I do...

My 2 cents...

[John Scott]

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.

[Johan007]

Agree John Scott's Internal Link Architecture article has some very good points on Navigation links including not to waste any link weight.

There are two types of Internal Links. For all sites there are Navigation links. For content sites an article can contain links to other articles within the articles text like on Wikipedia. In this respect internal links add up to "link text" that can be as powerful as the internal PR transferred. I believe it is a sign of an healthy website to have this kind of linkage.

[Webfu]

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.

Do you mean like a directory or sitemap that uses a hierarchy of categories and sub categories ?