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Q: Internal Linking

by Charles Butler
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How do I go about setting up my links in a way that google counts them as backlinks like Amazon? Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author malfumos
    You can do link building with sites that are high in Page Rank. So, that it will counted as your backlinks. You can see this site below to see.

    Quality Backlinks Services
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  • Profile picture of the author Solidsnake
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    Originally Posted by Charles Butler View Post

    How do I go about setting up my links in a way that google counts them as backlinks like Amazon? Thanks!
    Post your site in forums, social bookmarks, blogs, article directories, etc.. there's a lot of things to do..
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  • Profile picture of the author Charles Butler
    Oh I think I phrased the question wrong...

    I am familiar with posting backlinks on other websites, but I would like to set up my own website to have an internal linking structure that helps it gain tons of backlinks as well, like this website:

    Site Explorer - Search Results

    Its product pages are being counted as backlinks to its homepage, how do websites achieve this?
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    • Profile picture of the author Solidsnake
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      Originally Posted by Charles Butler View Post

      Oh I think I phrased the question wrong...

      I am familiar with posting backlinks on other websites, but I would like to set up my own website to have an internal linking structure that helps it gain tons of backlinks as well, like this website:

      Site Explorer - Search Results

      Its product pages are being counted as backlinks to its homepage, how do websites achieve this?
      I think what you mean is on page optimization...
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  • Profile picture of the author Charles Butler
    I see, thanks for correcting me. So how would I go about optimizing it so that my website gets the deisred result?
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  • Profile picture of the author PeteHarrison
    Hi Charles,

    Yahoo! Site Explorer counts all links (including internal links) by default, this will show only external links:
    Site Explorer - Search Results
    Internal linking is a very important part of onpage SEO, as it not only helps your link count in the Search Engines eyes, it also helps to distribute/focus Page Rank within your site. It also facilitates indexing by the SE bots if you have a large site.

    Before you decide on your internal linking structure you must decide which page(s) you want to benefit from the "link juice" then you can set about building internal links to provide it.

    One thing to remember for your internal (and external) linking is always to use relevant anchor text in your links.

    I hope this helps, if you need any more info let me know and I'll put together a longer and more detailed post on internal linking.

    Pete
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    • Profile picture of the author melanied
      Is it a static site or a blog? Because there are wordpress plugins that can greatly help with this, if you're using wordpress...
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    • Profile picture of the author Charles Butler
      Originally Posted by PeteHarrison View Post

      Hi Charles,

      Yahoo! Site Explorer counts all links (including internal links) by default, this will show only external links:
      Site Explorer - Search Results
      Internal linking is a very important part of onpage SEO, as it not only helps your link count in the Search Engines eyes, it also helps to distribute/focus Page Rank within your site. It also facilitates indexing by the SE bots if you have a large site.

      Before you decide on your internal linking structure you must decide which page(s) you want to benefit from the "link juice" then you can set about building internal links to provide it.

      One thing to remember for your internal (and external) linking is always to use relevant anchor text in your links.

      I hope this helps, if you need any more info let me know and I'll put together a longer and more detailed post on internal linking.

      Pete
      Thanks for the info Pete, I just want all pages to support my homepage if possible. I have a clothing website and I want to rank it for specific keywords, but the website that I used in the site explorer example ranks for a couple of keywords that I would like to rank for and I see that its product pages link to its homepage,

      so I guess what I am asking is how would I go about getting the product pages to count as backlinks for the homepage?

      Originally Posted by melanied View Post

      Is it a static site or a blog? Because there are wordpress plugins that can greatly help with this, if you're using wordpress...
      It's a website that sells clothing, but thanks for the idea.
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      • Profile picture of the author AndyBlackSEO
        Originally Posted by Charles Butler View Post

        so I guess what I am asking is how would I go about getting the product pages to count as backlinks for the homepage?
        For this, all you have to do is make sure that each product page links back to your homepage using relevant anchor text.

        For a new site I have developed, I have added a bit of php code to the nbavigation bar so that every page dynamically randomizes the anchor text so it either says.....

        Keyword Phrase 1 HOME
        Keyword Phrase 2 HOME
        Keyword Phrase 3 HOME

        This site has over 200 pages, which are almost all indexed in Google now. What I'm hoping this will do is add my 3 main phrases to the sites internal linking structure and split the link density between the 3 phrases, rather than just one. This change has only recently been implemented so I'll have to wait until Google re-caches those pages.... it's just starting to now.

        In about 2 weeks or so I should be able to see what the results are from doing this. I'm hoping that my rankings for all 3 keyword phrases have increased. If so, it will prove that people are doing themselves no favours by having the word HOME as an anchor link on medium to large sites.

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  • Profile picture of the author Charles Butler
    my question got moved so I am bumping my post...can anyone here help me please?
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  • Profile picture of the author Charles Butler
    Wow, that little piece of advice made so much sense... Ill start placing links in the product description itself and if im reading this right it will count as a backlink...

    thank you so much for that...now I have more question and I will be good

    how would I get google to crawl the product pages? would I just need a robots.txt file or would I have to build a sitemap?
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  • Profile picture of the author PeteHarrison
    Hi Charles,

    Just link from within the text on your product pages to your home page using the required keywords as anchor text for the link.

    An XML sitemap is always a good idea to help the SE's to fully index your site.

    Pete
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    • Profile picture of the author TheHutz
      Internal linking is a bit of an "art" to get right, and is very important for on page SEO factors.

      For instance, your clothing homepage, would have some content about your range of cotton t shirts would link to your cotton t shirts page.

      Etc etc.

      As mentioned so far, make your anchor text relevant to the page that it is pointing to and that will help a lot.
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  • Profile picture of the author jtrag
    One thing you can do is make a blog on blogger.com and make it related to the same topic/keywords as your website and promote your blog while your blog has backlinks to your website. It doesn't take long to get a blogger.com blog ranking high in Google at all. Trust me, I know from first hand experience. Part of it has to do with the fact that Google sees all Blogger.com blogs as 10 years old (as old as blogger.com itself is) so that helps. There's a lot of other reasons blogs are good too but that's a whole other thread that I'll have to write someday when I get a chance

    Hope this helps

    Best of Luck,

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    • Profile picture of the author TheHutz
      Remember the question is about internal linking - not how to get backlinks to your site
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  • Profile picture of the author affiliated survivor
    I use the methods from Info Product Killer. It seems to work. I can get quite easy on the first page for keywords with about 5000-10.000 visitors a month. Without much external backlinks.
    Info Product Killer is about selling physical products with mini-sites. Something I haven´t been very succesful in this far. If I sell something it´s usually only in the first three days of the week. Amazon commissions are, compared to CB, low and I do not sell very much.
    However some people think the on page seo lessons of Info Product Killer alone are worth the price. I also think I can make more of them. For Adsense sites.
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