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Internal vs External backlinks

by gkhanna
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When you have a huge site above 10K pages or so, it's practically impossible to gain external backlinks for each and every page.

So, is it sufficient to create internal links as much as possible or too much internal linking also backfire...? Of course, I meant for internal links with super relevancy and not just for the heck of it.

Thanks in advance.
#backlinks #external #internal
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  • Profile picture of the author writeaway
    From my experience, if you link internally when it is MOST APPROPRIATE (ie., it actually helps highlight the value of your site's content), sometimes you end up drawing traffic.

    How?

    People sharing your stuff on social media.

    If your link gets shared enough, sometimes bloggers find your link and link to you
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  • Profile picture of the author expmrb
    Good internal linking is always good for greater good. And you answered your own query. As long as they are relevant they won't backfire.
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  • Profile picture of the author Adam Wilspat
    Internal linking helps to drive traffic and also helpful helps to improve keyword ranking. Linking with relevant pages with proper anchor text helps for better ranking.
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  • Profile picture of the author msulcs
    Internal linking is super important.
    Link relevant keywords to relevant articles and you'll see great improvement in SERP's for many keywords.
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  • Profile picture of the author Naman1234
    The 100 link suggestion is from Google's content guidelines. The aim is likely to minimize the relevance of links coming from link-farms. To answer the original comment's question about internal links, Google's sitemap guidelines also suggest keeping an sitemap limited to 100 links or breaking the map into smaller pages
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  • Profile picture of the author fastreplies
    Originally Posted by gkhanna View Post

    So, is it sufficient to create internal links as much as possible or too much internal linking also backfire...?.
    Backfire? Why?
    Interlinking is the main source of navigation around your site without which G.
    would be crawling your site blindfold and because Algo is intelligent enough
    to learn that this is the same repeated link, it won' follow everyone of them.

    Beside,my advice, build your site for benefit of your visitors and learn to
    care less about what Google thinks.

    Originally Posted by gkhanna View Post

    Of course, I meant for internal links with super relevancy and not just for the heck of it.
    Super relevancy? How do you know which is which?
    Every link you have is more than just super relevant, because if it's not, then
    why do you have not relevant in a first place?



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  • Profile picture of the author Stephen Paul
    Internal links on your web page will help a viewer to stay engaged with your website longer. This may encourage them to become a customer or follower. These links are more accessible to viewers, and they increase the authority of your web pages and overall site. So, don't think about a backfire.
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  • Profile picture of the author Vamsi Shekar
    Internal linking is good it reduces bounce rate and it is navigating user from one page to another. but external links helps to reach best position in Search engine results page.
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  • Profile picture of the author seocorporation
    You can see Wikipedia. It never got penalized for interlinking as It's internal links are super relevant. Interlinks improves user expericne hence quote useful and help in SEO as well.



    So you can rest assured that It will not backfire if it's relevant.
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  • Profile picture of the author seoexpertinindia
    Yeah too much Internal Linking is also not good for SEO purposes. But you should have a good internal linking for your important pages. Google should have multiple ways to reach your most important pages.
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  • Profile picture of the author Medon
    Internal linking is good. It helps to explain your website and makes it easy for visitors to get what they are looking for.
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  • Profile picture of the author KylieSweet
    The more content pages to the website the better internal linking it will give to site and specially to satisfy the users intent and dwells more time on the pages.
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  • Profile picture of the author outreachpanda
    Good internal linking is best for SEO. Make sure that the linking article is relevant and keep an eye on anchor text. That's it.
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  • Profile picture of the author mudassar450
    The link building that is done naturally, rather than forcefully inserting the link either internally or externally, is the best way to optimize your pages in Search Engines.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jason Walter
    Wikipedia is one of the best and greatest examples of internal linking. internal linking helps for better indexing in the search engine.
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  • Profile picture of the author webtechno
    Internal linking is important too, and as you already said if they are relevant they are of no harm. Just remember to link appropriate keywords to appropriate article, and you are good to go.
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