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What happens if we remove all the links to internal pages from our homepage?

by michealtech
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Hi community,

We wanna give a try by removing all the links from homepage to internal pages and keep just a free trial button. Will this impact our SEO anyway? We have nearly 15 important internal pages at 2nd and 3rd hierarchy level. They may drop in rankings but we want to risk for few days to understand how it works. Your opinion please!

Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author affmarketer101
    If you want to lose rankings from those pages (suppose you are doing negative SEO), that's really good, let do it.
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  • Profile picture of the author poshgarden
    If We Remove all the links from home we will loose the ranking
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  • Profile picture of the author Richa seth
    Don't do this....it is not good as SEO....internal links are very much important,You will loose ranking.
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  • Profile picture of the author Daijon Moss
    Yes It may effect on your ranking. If you delete the internal links from your homepage. Maybe you can see some differences on your SERP's.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by michealtech View Post

    Hi community,

    We wanna give a try by removing all the links from homepage to internal pages and keep just a free trial button. Will this impact our SEO anyway? We have nearly 15 important internal pages at 2nd and 3rd hierarchy level. They may drop in rankings but we want to risk for few days to understand how it works. Your opinion please!

    Thanks


    You don't risk for a few days with SEO.

    If you want to take the risk, fine, do it but the risk could be long term or permanent depending on If your current ranking is barely hanging on.
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  • Profile picture of the author Castor Troy1
    Actually internal linking is the easy gateway of another service of the page, sometime visitor can be don't click any tab of the site but they might be interest about the article. Main thing of the internal linking is easily go to the another page of the website.
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  • Profile picture of the author keith shawn
    Two best reason not to remove internal links are:
    Getting strong bound of INternal links for SEO
    Better crawling for new content.
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  • Profile picture of the author robbydal
    i will prefer not removing it for navigation and crawling new posts on site.
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  • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
    How in the world would anybody ever find those internal pages if they are not linked to anywhere from the home page? And yes, it very well could and probably will hurt the rankings of those pages.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rahul89624
    dave_hermansen 1 week ago
    How in the world would anybody ever find those internal pages if they are not linked to anywhere from the home page?



    Two best reason not to remove internal links are:
    Getting strong bound of INternal links for SEO
    Better crawling for new content.
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  • Profile picture of the author michealtech
    Thanks for all the suggestions. Everybody says not to remove internal links from homepage as if its going to hurt severely which I didn't expect. I have seen good number of websites which don't link from homepage to internal pages to make visitors to stick to the homepage and go through some CTA buttons. I would say crazyegg as one of the examples. Anyhow, we are going to link from footer menu which will be the last choice for a visitor to browse through homepage at the end. Is this such wrong approach? I don't think this is a black hat technique to get penalised by Google.
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    • Profile picture of the author Daniel1000
      Originally Posted by michealtech View Post

      Thanks for all the suggestions. Everybody says not to remove internal links from homepage as if its going to hurt severely which I didn't expect. I have seen good number of websites which don't link from homepage to internal pages to make visitors to stick to the homepage and go through some CTA buttons. I would say crazyegg as one of the examples. Anyhow, we are going to link from footer menu which will be the last choice for a visitor to browse through homepage at the end. Is this such wrong approach? I don't think this is a black hat technique to get penalised by Google.
      Crazyegg links their pages in the footer of their homepage. They don't put anything in the header.

      OP can try that, it forces the user to read the whole page before leaving.
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  • Profile picture of the author fastreplies
    Originally Posted by michealtech View Post

    We wanna give a try by removing all the links from homepage to internal pages and keep just a free trial button. Will this impact our SEO anyway? We have nearly 15 important internal pages at 2nd and 3rd hierarchy level. They may drop in rankings but we want to risk for few days to understand how it works. Your opinion please!
    My opinion?
    You're either the biggest troll from Trollsylvania or it's time for you to see brain Doctor.

    What I would like to know, what's the point and why would you think it makes sense?
    How it would help you to understand something even in theory is too obvious to ignore?
    Why are you trying to brake something that isn't broken and will take time to fix it?

    If you can't answer my questions, then read again "My Opinion" and take my advice.



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  • Profile picture of the author stephenchong
    You gonna loose all your keyword Ranking. If you want to test you can try but it will negatively affect your website.
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  • Profile picture of the author buzzinteractive
    you will lose the ranking. but its not the main site you can do experiments though. but not recommended from my side. and you mentioned that you will add the internal links to footer it may help but its better to use internal links in your posts as well as in the footer.
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  • Profile picture of the author BradYoung04
    What exactly are you hoping to gain insight into with this trial? To me it makes zero sense to do this, especially as you know you are going to lose visibility in the search results.
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  • Profile picture of the author vimalc98
    You should always try different methods and it will teach you new things. So yeah go for it. You will definitely learn new things.
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