Internal Linking Question

13 years ago

I'm not sure about outputting a list automatically, but if I wanted to do this, I'd start with my atom feed, and copy/paste from that.

If there was a ridiculous lot of links, I'd look at parsing the feed for permalinks.

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deckman

13 years ago

Originally Posted by RyanAndrews

I'm not sure about outputting a list automatically, but if I wanted to do this, I'd start with my atom feed, and copy/paste from that.

If there was a ridiculous lot of links, I'd look at parsing the feed for permalinks.

I am not sure what atom feed or parsing the feed is but I guess I will Google it and start from there.

Thanks for the response.

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Jason Stepp

13 years ago

Yesterday, I replied to this same post with a solution (generate a sitemap), but for some reason, your entire thread was deleted.

Anyway, here's what you need to do...

Download and install this WordPress plugin: WordPress › Google XML Sitemaps « WordPress Plugins

After you install the plugin, head to your WP Dashboard, click settings, then open the XML-Sitemap settings.

About half-way down the XML-Sitemaps options page, you will see an area where you can specify the content you want included in the sitemap you generate.

Once you are happy with the settings, generate the sitemap.

The plugin will create a sitemap for you and it usually places it here:

Code:

http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml

You can give this link to the guy who needs the information

Hopefully that helps...

If I confused you anywhere along the way, let me know. I'd be happy to help you a little more if you need it.

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deckman

13 years ago

Thanks Jay!

I understand what you are saying. My son had installed the sitemap generator as I have seen it in my dashboard.
I do have a question though. I think that I may have just answered this question as it dawned on me as I was typing. Let me ask anyways to be sure that I understand it right.

Do I have to have actual content with the pictures in my gallery so that the sitemap will include the pics in the sitemap as a separate url? I have worked some of the pics with the alt text and I am assuming that this will be what prompts the unique url for the pic?

Thanks for your help!
Deckman

I know why the post got deleted. I posted the same in two different categories as to make sure that it would get in to the right one to get answered. I now know that that will get it deleted. Sorry won't do it again admin!

Originally Posted by Jay284

Yesterday, I replied to this same post with a solution (generate a sitemap), but for some reason, your entire thread was deleted.

Anyway, here's what you need to do...

Download and install this WordPress plugin: WordPress › Google XML Sitemaps « WordPress Plugins

After you install the plugin, head to your WP Dashboard, click settings, then open the XML-Sitemap settings.

About half-way down the XML-Sitemaps options page, you will see an area where you can specify the content you want included in the sitemap you generate.

Once you are happy with the settings, generate the sitemap.

The plugin will create a sitemap for you and it usually places it here:

Code:

http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml

You can give this link to the guy who needs the information

Hopefully that helps...

If I confused you anywhere along the way, let me know. I'd be happy to help you a little more if you need it.

Thanks

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Jason Stepp

13 years ago

I'm not really sure why your 'seo guy' would need direct URLs to your images. If you really wanted to, you could create a hyperlink in the image linking to itself...

Code:

<a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/images/image1.jpg" title="image 1"><img src="http://www.yourdomain.com/images/image1.jpg" alt="image 1"></a>

Even then though, I don't see the practicality for SEO purposes.

I highly doubt your 'seo guy' is going to build direct backlinks to an image URL. I'm nowhere near an SEO expert, but I don't see how that could have any SEO benefits (except for maybe google images, but I doubt that too).

If you are displaying images in a gallery, as long as the gallery page URL is included in the sitemap, everything should be fine. He will see the gallery URL and be able to send some link love in its direction.

I hope that helps!

Thanks
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deckman

13 years ago

Dont know if you may be aware of what my sites main purpose is and its to generate sales leads for my contracting business.

Actually he is working on the internal structure of the site and I may not be using the correct lingo. I do know he gets paid big $$ for what he does so I am taking to heart what he can teach me.

We were talking about using images to be able to capture search engine traffic by linking to the different search terms with them. From what I am understanding it should be something similar to what Service Magic does to get all of their search engine traffic for leads.

And again please dont quote me on this since I may not be explaining correctly. Once I do it I will then understand better but I have to furnish him with the basic structuring of the website so that we can work from there.

He is too expensive to hire to do this for me so we have worked out a deal for him to teach me.

Thanks for all your help.

Originally Posted by Jay284

I'm not really sure why your 'seo guy' would need direct URLs to your images. If you really wanted to, you could create a hyperlink in the image linking to itself...

Code:

<a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/images/image1.jpg" title="image 1"><img src="http://www.yourdomain.com/images/image1.jpg" alt="image 1"></a>

Even then though, I don't see the practicality for SEO purposes.

I highly doubt your 'seo guy' is going to build direct backlinks to an image URL. I'm nowhere near an SEO expert, but I don't see how that could have any SEO benefits (except for maybe google images, but I doubt that too).

If you are displaying images in a gallery, as long as the gallery page URL is included in the sitemap, everything should be fine. He will see the gallery URL and be able to send some link love in its direction.

I hope that helps!

Thanks

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deckman

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Jay284

I'm not really sure why your 'seo guy' would need direct URLs to your images. If you really wanted to, you could create a hyperlink in the image linking to itself...

Code:

<a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/images/image1.jpg" title="image 1"><img src="http://www.yourdomain.com/images/image1.jpg" alt="image 1"></a>

Even then though, I don't see the practicality for SEO purposes.

I highly doubt your 'seo guy' is going to build direct backlinks to an image URL. I'm nowhere near an SEO expert, but I don't see how that could have any SEO benefits (except for maybe google images, but I doubt that too).

If you are displaying images in a gallery, as long as the gallery page URL is included in the sitemap, everything should be fine. He will see the gallery URL and be able to send some link love in its direction.

I hope that helps!

Now that I read your reply again the alt image text can play a major roll in SEO if you use them right. I know this from playing around in my dashboard with my images. I have several images indexed by Google already.You can use them to get indexed by keyword and this in turn can send them to your site.

You ever hear of SEOPressor? Use it and see how much using the alt image text will increase your SEO score.

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aleabby

13 years ago

Well yes, you can create site map, using wordpress plugin it will help you better and easily can be send, modify and update anytime.

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Microsys

13 years ago

Originally Posted by deckman

I am working with a guy that works for a large corporation doing SEO and he has offered to help me with my website. I have numerous pages to my site. He has asked me to send him a list of all the different url's of the site so he can do some internal linking and structuring.

My site is built using wordpress. Is there a way that I can get a list of all the url's without having to go to each individual page, copy the url and paste it to a list?

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Deckman

I think you should identify your best/quality pages/articles/offerings and have him link build and seo those.

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deckman 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Sitemapper

I think you should identify your best/quality pages/articles/offerings and have him link build and seo those.

I will be building more pages as we go. He is telling me that when we get done that anybody in my service area that is looking for any of my services regardless of what keyword they search with will have my site in front of them first page.
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opiz2012

13 years ago

WordPress plug-in created with the site map is a good way.

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