8 Ways to Boost Internal Linking Throughout Your Blog
An internal link is one that navigates to another part of the same webpage or to another page that may be included in the same domain of the Internet. It is helpful to the user to easily go to the information he is searching for.
Internal linking is an important factor of site development and it progresses both search rankings and usability. An efficient linking technique poses two main advantages. First, page views are increased and readers read more about your blog due to the enticing links provided. Second, search rankings for your pages are improved.
Bloggers find this an effective strategy in creating a more user-friendly blog while increasing the search engine rankings. The following are some of the ways to enhance internal linking in your website:
1. Use a sitemap. This helps search engines find what the visitors are looking for. It’s also an easy way of increasing the number of internal links to your important web pages. Setting up a sitemap improves the traffic from search engines and enhances your visitors’ loyalty.
2. Second, use the cross-link technique for articles between your sites. This is very useful especially if you have many online materials. Remember to use only relevant ones.
3. Create a Frequently Asked Questions page. This helps you get internal links to your posts using keyword-targeted terms. This also improves the readers’ loyalty.
4. Create a series of posts to let your visitors learn more information relevant to the particular topic. Writing and publishing a series can link each post to the others, thus increasing the views.
5. Place links to the most popular posts. Many blogs include links to particular posts on the sidebar. This can be done manually or through plug-ins, but the latter is more convenient.
6. Use a week or month summary. To improve internal linking, do it regularly. Conclude each week or month with a post that connects to the most popular posts on the blog.
7. Place links in your footer area. This attracts most visitors so utilize it and provide links to pages and posts on your blog.
8. Lastly, take advantage of the 404 error pages. Make these pages friendlier to the users by providing links to your most well-liked posts.
Improving your website’s internal linking structure is indeed of great help. It works not only for online entrepreneurs but also to bloggers through developing their sites.
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Katherine, this is some great advice! Posted to Facebook. This needs to be shared.
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Katherine Droguett Reply:
May 28th, 2010 at 10:31 pm
Kyle,
It’s nice to see you visiting my blog and thank you for sharing my content
katherine
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Hey Katherine!
You share some really great tips here for interlinking your blog. Some I have already put into practice but a few I haven’t. This is great information for anyone getting started with their blog!
Thanks for sharing!
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Katherine Droguett Reply:
May 30th, 2010 at 6:48 pm
Hi Amanda;
Thanks for stopping by my blog
I thought putting a list would help newbies and give out some suggestions to the more advanced bloggers as well.
I’m glad it helped!
Katherine
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Hey Katherine,
Great information on increasing the traffic to your blog. Most of these tips are new to me, which makes your blog a place that I need to stop at very often. Glad you are sharing them to help everyone make their blogs more functional. Great leadership.
To Your Continued Success,
Bill
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Katherine Droguett Reply:
May 31st, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Thanks Bill!
I appreciate the support
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loving it!
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Katherine Droguett Reply:
June 15th, 2010 at 11:33 pm
Thanks Elizabeth
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Good article Thank you so much
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Katherine Droguett Reply:
June 2nd, 2010 at 11:56 am
No problem
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Interesting.
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been following your blog for 3 days now and i should say i am starting to like your post. and now how do i subscribe to your blog?
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Katherine Droguett Reply:
June 16th, 2010 at 10:48 pm
Hi Francisco;
You can subscribe through my RSS Feed, you can find it on the top right hand corner, my sidebar, or the comment area.
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Terrific work! This is the type of information that should be shared around the web. Shame on the search engines for not positioning this post higher!
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Pretty good post. I just stumbled upon your blog and wanted to say that I have really enjoyed reading your blog posts.Any way Ill be subscribing to your feed and I hope you post again soon
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Hi there, just wanted to leave a quick comment about the interface of your blog. It is really easy on the eye while also being catchy. I think I will do something similar for my blog as well. Thanks for the nice blog share.
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Thank you for Posting & I got to read nice information on your site.
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Katherine Droguett Reply:
June 21st, 2010 at 10:32 pm
Great to hear that Vincent
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it’s pretty cool to read a blog written by someone with similar views to mine. can I subscribe to the blog?
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Katherine Droguett Reply:
June 21st, 2010 at 10:32 pm
of course Kimberly!
Come back anytime you like
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I am glad I found your blog, I will return.
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Katherine Droguett Reply:
June 24th, 2010 at 3:15 pm
Thanks
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nice post i think you should check out my blog i would imagine you would find it humorous!
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Katherine Droguett Reply:
July 12th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Thanks John an I’ll definitely take a look at your blog
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