Today, 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.
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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very good technique to get more traffic
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My blog has a link navigation bar on top, just added a smaller one on the footer of my blog..I yet have to see some changes in seo. But my blog doesn’t have tags…u know those tags after each post… Are tags important? I took them off because they were too close to my comments link and making it a mess
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Yup tags also helps in seo. As I am also using it you should also use it if possible.
Yes I agree internal link structure is one of the deadly technique that made site like Wikipedia dominates the search engines, it has solid internal link building, hierarchical structure of Wikipedia, this factor makes it rank so extremely high for nearly every topic you can think of. Wikipedia has a good habit to internally links to every word, every phrase and every page with it’s own page is mentioned.
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Ya that’s why we see wikipedia on top on many keywords related to knowledge and education.
Even you do this in wordpress. There are several plugins to try on to help you improve the internal URL structure.
About the plug-in, i’m asked it on my prev.comment and now i get it 🙂
Well, but sometime using plug-in have disadvantage.
Some plug-in work like this :
To linking certain word to certain article always.
So if “Do” word is linked to “Do or No Do Follow?” always, and in the case there is 100 “Do” Word on your article, that’s mean 100 internal link, right? It’s bad, right?
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Whats the plug in Bro?
But I don’t get why someone will link the word “do” as it is not going to give any benefit to him in search rankings. Just imagining, Is he thinking that people will search “Do” through search engines and they will read his Case Study of Do Follow or not ?
Your articles are really very much useful. I will look forward for your next posts
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Check my latest articles and I am sure you will like them also.
“Even you do this in wordpress. There are several plugins to try on to help you improve the internal URL structure.”
Hei I am interested with the plugins can you mention me their names or make a post about them? Because I’d like to build solid internal link campaigns in my blogs
Thanks
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I already told about few plugins in the above comment. But still I suggest you having these:
Internal Link Building Plugin
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
All in One SEO Pack
Breadcrumb Navigation Plugin etc.
@Typhoon, Although, is it just four plugin that related to increase Internal Linking??..If there any, it will be more useful if you don’t mind to make a Post about the Plugin that u used already for internal liknk..Thanks..
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The plugins I told are popular one’s n have used it but there are many other plugins which performs same task but different way. You can try any one and choose which one have more features and is best for your blog.
I never realised how important the internal link structure really was!!
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Now you got it right. You can start linking hereafter. But, I must say never always wait for someone to give these tips. If you think yourselves involved in your site improvement, you will get lot of similar ideas.
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And, after read this tips, don’t forget to your external link building since it’s more important.
Well, i find my site navigation is too conventional and giving not too many exposure, should edit it up. 😛
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External Link Building ? Do u mean getting links back. Of course, they are the most important part.
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internal link building are also help to prevent your blogspot blog from spamming means if someone stealing your blog content through rss .It gives you a linkback to your blog .
I think thats not possible Bro. They may not help all the times. But there are some scripts used which can link back to you automatically if some one copies your content.
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Yup, that’s tynt.com service but it’s not much of importance in terms of seo.
Yes i am using tynt too. It surely has importance. Its a good way to get back link when someone copies ur content.
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Well I read this post two times very slowly to grasp the exact concept you are trying to explain here. This simple tweaks on link structure of website can really in spreading PR to all internal pages of a blog. I must you are really a smart blogger and its so fits with name of your blog. Thanks again for sharing this valuable information.
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In-context linking is very much appreciated by Google. I even bold the anchor text in the sentence to make it more visible to Google.
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I just came to know from this article that internal link can affect to our site search engine ank. Well, as far i build my blog, i just concentrate on external link building. So thanks for inform me the information.
But except anchor text, because i’m already use it properly
Bro, most of us strive to get back links with anchor text we wish. Why not link to the article or page with the anchor site we wish from our site itself. 🙂
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Yes i just aware about the link juice things, so i have a homework to add it for some article. More exposure to the old article 🙂
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Hmm good. They can bring ur old posts life and if some of them are good, there are chances that people don’t know this if u don’t link to them.
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