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Internal Link Building to Boost your Search Engine Rankings

By Typhoon On March 28, 2009 Under SEO Tips

internal-link-building-stratergiesToday, I am going to talk about the most overlooked Link Building strategies. Most of the times I am surprised how most people completely ignores this powerful link building strategies. This is how sites like Wikipedia and Amazon dominates the front page of Google. It’s actually your own internal Link structure. The internal links within your own site can have a large impact over your Search Engine Rankings. This is especially true if you are having a large website/blog with many pages.

You can increase the ranking of the individual pages within your site by adding the right link in strategic places. In fact you can boost your own Search Rankings simply by modifying and doing few simple tweaks to the internal link structure of your site. You are basically funneling the link juice within your own site to boost certain pages of your site.

There are three main aspects of internal linking – site navigation, in-context linking and anchor text.

1. Site Navigation

Proper site navigation is a basic and integral part of on-site optimization. You want to link to your top pages from the navigation menu – whether those are main categories or just key internal pages.

You will probably have more than one navigation menu – a main menu for site navigation, and a secondary menu for informational pages (about,contact etc.)

The site navigation has just one purpose – to highlight the main sections of your website. Think of which top-level pages are the most important, and add them to your main navigation. If you have a blog or website and if it has several categories, then you can list them in a ‘third’ menu in the sidebar of your website.

2. In-Context Linking

Search engines give more weight to in-context links than link lists (on a links page or in the sidebar). This makes in-context linking important for off-site links as well as internal links.

Ideally, you want to make it so that all related posts/pages are interlinked amongst each other through in-context links. You can make use of Related Posts plugin(both blogger and wordpress have this).

If you look at Wikipedia their most of the word are interlinked with another article of Wikipedia. This is one the excellent example of how authoritative domains with smart internal linking practices and proper on-page optimization can dominate search engine rankings for all types of keywords.

However, if you do this on a personal blog or a blog related to something specific only; it might not look as good to the readers. So make sure you only choose some relevant pages to be inter linked.

But do note that Inter-Linking on a site with hundreds of pages will have a bigger effect than just a handful of pages.

3. Anchor Text

Links are important but without using the right keywords they will not deliver the required benefits. Links without related keywords are like shooting arrows blind – you are sending link juice y to those pages, but you’re not telling the search engines what topic those pages are relevant to.

These tips really works. If you don’t’ believe me I can show you a proof of this own blog.

Go to Google> In the search field of Google enter link:www.smartbloggerz.com Or you can simply just click this google link directly.

As you can see in the results on the front page; two of my pages are already been considered as backlinks by Google and they rank well on the search results too.

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At he end I would say that don’t underestimate the power of strong internal link structure. A site that is properly themed and properly structured to target a specific series of keywords has a much greater chance of dominating the front page of Google.

Hope you might have understood the power of Internal Link Structure and would try to follow it. Waiting for your response ;)


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Yo! I am Typhoon a.k.a Sushant, a 16 yrs. old blogger from India and the owner of SmartBloggerz. Here I try to share useful Blogging related articles which would help a blogger to succeed. You can connect to me on Twitter.

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  1. Kenzy

    November 14, 2009
    11:06 am

    I thought the best link building technique was link exchange, anyway i have learnt a new method.
    Thanks

  2. Kok Siong from Cytogenetics and Cancer Research

    November 22, 2009
    8:51 am

    i have tried to use the internal link build. But i still not manage to get some backlinks from that. I also havent get my pagerank. Is it because of my failure on link building? Thanks for information!
    Cytogenetics and Cancer Research´s last blog ..Apoptosis | Type 1 Programmed Cell Death Pathway My ComLuv Profile

  3. George from google link building

    December 2, 2009
    7:50 am

    I was under the impression that the only way to increase PR and rank in search engines was link exchanging. Thanks for the insight on a new method that sounds much more beneficial!

  4. Noman from Gezonde Voeding

    December 3, 2009
    9:32 pm

    This method are effective, i guarantee it. If you do as what typhoon says. Thanks typhoon for share your SEO knowledge for public like us.

  5. Holly Jahangiri

    December 7, 2009
    1:38 am

    The concept of interlinking is a natural one for me; my first experience with hyperlinking came from Windows Help design and content development. But I need to practice using stronger anchor text than “click here” – the link should be on the “to learn effective SEO techniques” (or whatever you want the reader to “click here” to do. Links should be natural, meaningful, and useful to your human readers, though.
    Holly Jahangiri´s last blog ..Ethics in Blogging My ComLuv Profile

  6. Madhuri

    December 10, 2009
    1:55 pm

    I am running on of the real estate website http://www.propertieshut.com and I made good internal linking but not getting good results and somebody suggest me I need one way linking as well. How can I do that.

  7. Anton from gambling

    December 11, 2009
    7:04 pm

    I have seen many times websites with a lot of content ranking very well in search engines. All of them have an internal link structure very well planned and very few links with other sites. The key for this, is not to compete for highly competitive keywords.

  8. Aditya from SEO Experts

    December 16, 2009
    1:46 am

    Internal linking strategy is very important for getting some good backlink. If you set the navigation structure properly than you surly get lot of link from it.

  9. irfan from the princess and the frog movie

    December 16, 2009
    11:47 am

    I use in context-linking in my blog. I usually link my article with other article in my blog. I suggest that we have 3 link to other post in our blog. Google like it. In future I will consider to use related post in my blog. thanks for your useful article.
    irfan@the princess and the frog movie´s last blog ..invictus movie trailer My ComLuv Profile

  10. Elbwoski from Link Building Services

    February 15, 2010
    5:31 pm

    I have seen excessive use of Internal Link Building on Eric Ward’s site. I feel Internal Link Building not only helps you increase the internal crawling but also helps in allowing flow of Link Juice and PageRank to internal pages (Money pages) on the site.

    All in all, a really informative post. Thank You for sharing!

  11. Senthil Ramesh

    December 9, 2009
    10:58 pm

    That must be wonderful. You have a long way to go, Sushant.
    Senthil Ramesh´s last blog ..Take Care Ann, Your Blog can be Spammed My ComLuv Profile

  12. akira07

    December 11, 2009
    2:50 am

    Knowledge which come from experience is always the best because it’s honest and pure and also already tested.
    Is this internal linking come from your research and experience also?
    akira07´s last blog ..Make or Break – Website Review My ComLuv Profile

  13. Senthil Ramesh

    December 13, 2009
    4:01 pm

    I had no experience in Internal Linking or Link Building too. But, when I started blogging, I read articles and network with people to know bout it. Its always good to learn from experience.

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