Internal Linking Boost Search Engine Rankings?
Posted in SEO For Blogs by: ChetanOnce again Darren’s Problogger article gave this good tips about internal linking :
The advice is good - and can basically be summed up as follows:
Internal links within your blog are good for a number of reasons:
- Firstly they help your readers navigate around your site. A well thought out menu or relevant links within your posts to other post on a similar topic will help you retain your reader for longer and send them deeper within your site.
- They help Search Engine’s robots to navigate your site and hopefully to get every possible page indexed. If you have a site map page or an archives page that links to every page on your blog this helps the SE’s robots index you more comprehensively.
- It seems that most Search Engines (like Google for instance) do give some weight to internal links when it comes to ranking your pages.
However internal links are not the be all and end all when it comes to SEO
Google are decreasing the value/weight of internal links. There is a number of other people that I respect who believe that the last few updates to Google’s algorithm have had something to do with this - and that pages with a lot of internal links have actually seen their search engine page rankings (SERPS) decrease.
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July 24th, 2006 at 10:18 pm
Nice article shared by darren and thanks for showing it here.