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interlinking articles within my blog

by Retiring Ironman
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I read something the other day referring to interlinking the pages of your own site. Will this actually hurt me with google in regard to my ranking?

example: In my blog about endurance sports I will have an article about training for the marathon that I am preparing for. What I am doing, different tips, and so on. I may have a portion of that article surrounding Hydration, and part surrounding Nutrition, gear, etc.

Should I not include links to other articles that I've written on my blog on those topics to give my readers more to read if they are interested in that specific subject?

It's possible I misunderstood what I read, but I swear the guy claimed his rankings were dropping because of linking different pages of his site.
#articles #blog #interlinking
  • Profile picture of the author ElusiveEnd
    You definitely can create internal links within your own content, but as with external links, just don't spam exact anchor text links. Link to your other articles naturally.

    For example: (If your primary keyword for the other article was just "Nutrition")
    BAD LINK
    "Training for a marathon will require that you pay close attention to your food intake and general <link>nutrition<link> in order to better enhance your running ability.

    GOOD LINK
    "Training for a marathon will require that you pay close attention to your <link>food intake and general nutrition<link> in order to better enhance your running ability.

    The second example obviously still provides an SEO benefit but even better is that it shows your readers that you also have information available to them regarding nutrition.
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  • Profile picture of the author Weedy92
    Interlinking is GREAT.

    You're getting the link juice flowing throughout your site. Always worth doing.

    Don't do it for search engines though, try to make it user focused.

    If you write a car article.

    And you mention the word, "tires".

    Then link that to another article on "how to buy new car tires" etc.

    Pretty simple.

    Try to learn about bit more about how to do it the right way though, figure out what your most linked pages are, etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author mmchael
    Just Naturally link to articles from other articles in your site. It sounds like you are really into your subject matter so just link where it is relevant and useful and it will benefit you.

    Do think about your site structure

    Home
    / Nutrition
    / Training_gear
    /.... etc

    Then also write titles relevant to the topic and words on your page.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Internal links are basically the core of on-page SEO, Google is very lenient with anchor-text on internal pages.

    It's common for an average website to have the same internal link anchor-text spread out over a single domain with 10s/100s/1000s of pages.

    Look at the top of every single web page in the SEO/PPC/Adsense sub-forum here on Warrior Forum, thousands of pages with the same anchor-text. No big deal.

    Use common sense & don't make your pages look spammy.
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  • Profile picture of the author RedClickSeo
    You should 1000% be interlinking pages. Google highly advocates for it, and it's great for your websites overall SEO value.

    Think about wikipedia. It arguably is the best optimized website in the entire world (both on and off page) and every article has anywhere between 100-1000 interlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeadStartSEO
    Read this thread, particularly Yukon's comments. This is how I advice most of my consulting clients to structure their sites.

    Keyword Research --> Keyword Map / HTML Sitemap --> Build Silos

    From there, your blog can link to any silo on the site so long as silos don't link to the blog. Pay attention to which pages are ranking and adjust your linkbuilding (external and internal) efforts accordingly.

    Becker explains siloing here. Skip ahead to 9:30 to see how he traps PR and relevance within a silo.
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