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Importance of internal links

by rms1
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Hi Guys,

I got some great advice yesterday regarding my post SEO versus Adwords.

I mentioned that my new WordPress is going live this weekend. I have been working hard on SEO using Yoast and one thing I may have neglected is the number of internal links I have created throughout the site.

I can soon get to work on this but before I do, I just wondered how much value there is in internal links.
#importance #internal #links
  • Profile picture of the author Voxleaf
    As on site is most important just like this internal link is most most important........
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  • Profile picture of the author TemplatesforPowerPoint
    For link Juice Internal Linking Is much Important for website.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Originally Posted by rms1 View Post

    Hi Guys,

    I got some great advice yesterday regarding my post SEO versus Adwords.

    I mentioned that my new WordPress is going live this weekend. I have been working hard on SEO using Yoast and one thing I may have neglected is the number of internal links I have created throughout the site.

    I can soon get to work on this but before I do, I just wondered how much value there is in internal links.
    Internal links are more valuable than anything that Yoast does.
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  • Profile picture of the author rohanjha
    Yes I know that Internal links are valuable and most important, but how internal linking give benefits to our sites. please someone explain it.
    Thank you
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by rohanjha View Post

      Yes I know that Internal links are valuable and most important, but how internal linking give benefits to our sites. please someone explain it.
      Thank you
      Your selling SEO services but don't have a clue about internal links?
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      • Profile picture of the author rms1
        Thank you guys,
        That's my work sorted for the next few days.

        What great advice here.
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      • Profile picture of the author paulgl
        Originally Posted by yukon View Post

        Your selling SEO services but don't have a clue about internal links?
        Perhaps that's why the article....SEO or adwords.....?

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        • Profile picture of the author yukon
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          Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

          Perhaps that's why the article....SEO or adwords.....?

          Paul
          I'm afraid to look.
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  • Profile picture of the author high_plains_drifter
    Remember to think of the user when creating them, don't just throw some links at your keywords.
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO Power
    Internal links aid the flow of link juice throughout your site and help other pages on your site rank higher for their target keywords. Proper internal linking is an on-page SEO best practice.
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    ONE HOUR INDEXING - STOP WASTING MONEY ON LINKS GOOGLE NEVER FINDS
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  • Profile picture of the author SEOWizard417
    Internal links are a critical element to make use of. Not only do they distribute link juice to your internal pages, they also keep your visitors on your site and improves the user experience. No reason not to make good use of internal linking.
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  • Profile picture of the author InitialEffort
    This is probably not that important. You just want to have clear navigation through your website to the top pages. That is generally enough for internal linking. You don't need some fancy plugin that sorts through keywords in an article and links you to some other article you have on the site.
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by InitialEffort View Post

      This is probably not that important. You just want to have clear navigation through your website to the top pages. That is generally enough for internal linking. You don't need some fancy plugin that sorts through keywords in an article and links you to some other article you have on the site.
      Hopefully my competition is reading that...

      It's like buying a Ferrari & being stuck in a traffic jam, might as well bought a Ford Focus, lol.

      Seriously, internal links are just as important as external links.

      Why play around ranking one page per keyword when I can rank 2 or 3 internal pages per keyword with the same amount of external links. If the #1 SERP position has traffic the 2nd & 3rd position will also have traffic (per keyword).

      Then you have things like Sitelinks which are based on internal links, that's 4-5 free links in the SERPs per keyword for very little work.
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      • Profile picture of the author chris_87
        Originally Posted by yukon View Post

        Then you have things like Sitelinks which are based on internal links, that's 4-5 free links in the SERPs per keyword for very little work.
        For those of you wondering what the difference is between mega site links and site links see below examples.

        Mega site links


        Site links
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  • Profile picture of the author Poly Hossain
    Internal links are important to both visitors to your site and to search engines. Both of whom will use them to navigate your site. As both visitors and search engines will navigate your site using the same internal links, you need to find the right balance between creating internal links for visitors and creating them for search engines.
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  • Profile picture of the author andrewkar
    Your internal links are everything to you. But, those links can't be just links with anchors taken off the top of head. Those links must create a skeleton of your website structure, skeleton based on solid KW research. So, it's a bit more complicated than it looks. BTW, Yoast is just a plugin that helps to place meta data. Thanks to Yoast you don't need to dig in the code, that's all it does.
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    Do what you want to do!
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  • Profile picture of the author Tim P
    Long time ago, I only build backlinks to my homepage. But sub pages ranked high also with no backlinks. So my homepage pass link juice to sub page. That's importance of internal links.
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  • Profile picture of the author devinesoul186
    Internal linking not only help bots in crawling, indexing and spreading link juice but it also helps users to find new knowledge resources/topics in which they might be interested.
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