Thread: Internal Linking is not good for SEO?

Originally Posted by olivadisuja

I think Internal linking is not good for SEO, it is a bad practice.

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internal linking is good i don't need to reiterate what others have already said.

Originally Posted by proweb

I have ready somewhere on a blog, that internal linking is not good. Certainly external links have much more values, but what about internal links?

I'm very confused now, because I thought that internal link building has a big importance in ranking.

Has google changed this in their algorithm? Any help is highly appreciate! Thanks!

Whomever wrote what you read is smoking crack! LOL Internal linking is VERY important from an SEO perspective. It not only affects rankings, but also whether or not your page gets indexed to begin with.

Originally Posted by olivadisuja

I think Internal linking is not good for SEO, it is a bad practice.

ROFLMAO And some MORE bad advice. Have you ever heard of Wikipedia. If internal linking where bad for SEO then this site would be at the bottom of the rankings instead of ranking #1 or #2 for literally MILLIONS of competitive keyword phrases.

puff puff pass lol

One of the issues with internal links are webmasters abuse them for slamming the anchor text. For example, with "anchor text" sp*m by placing multiple links to the same page but with different anchor text. So this kind of linking isn't good for SEO.

However, internal linking is the best way to drive users to your pages and help the search engines find them. A good example of a website that uses internal linking is Diagnose-Me - Online Diagnosis - Diagnostic Tool The site has 3000+ pages but there is no menu on the homepage. Rather the site uses internal linking as opposed to menu based navigation. Here's am example of internal page highlighting the internal linking scheme: Diagnose-Me: Condition: Heavy Metal Toxicity

In the Matt Cutts Interviewed by Eric Enge - Google Crawl and Site Architecture Matt Cutts expains that internal text links are good for SEO.

[b]Matt Cutts:/[b] A good example might be to start with your ten best selling products, put those on the front page, and then on those product pages you could have links to your next ten or hundred best selling products. Each product could have ten links, and each of those ten links could point to ten other products that are selling relatively well. Think about sites like YouTube or Amazon; they do an amazing job of driving users to related pages and related products that they might want to buy anyway.

If you show up on one of those pages and you see something that looks really good, you click on that and then from there you see five more useful and related products. You are immediately driving both users and search engines straight to your important products rather than starting to dive into a deep faceted navigation. It is the sort of thing where sites should experiment and find out what works best for them.

Originally Posted by bogart

One of the issues with internal links are webmasters abuse them for slamming the anchor text. For example, with "anchor text" sp*m by placing multiple links to the same page but with different anchor text. So this kind of linking isn't good for SEO.

However, internal linking is the best way to drive users to your pages and help the search engines find them. A good example of a website that uses internal linking is Diagnose-Me - Online Diagnosis - Diagnostic Tool The site has 3000+ pages but there is no menu on the homepage. Rather the site uses internal linking as opposed to menu based navigation. Here's am example of internal page highlighting the internal linking scheme: Diagnose-Me: Condition: Heavy Metal Toxicity

In the Matt Cutts Interviewed by Eric Enge - Google Crawl and Site Architecture Matt Cutts expains that internal text links are good for SEO.

Amazon's and Youtube's releated content features are a fantastic way to explain the importance of internal linking.If you show your customers/visitors that there is more content/products they might be interested in,they will at least open and "scan" the page to see what its all about,if the content is good,they will probably read it.At least thats the way I do it,if a link is surrounded with good content I will most likely click it to read more good content

Internal linking is a good option to rank for a keyword.

Originally Posted by proweb

I have ready somewhere on a blog, that internal linking is not good. Certainly external links have much more values, but what about internal links?

I'm very confused now, because I thought that internal link building has a big importance in ranking.

Has google changed this in their algorithm? Any help is highly appreciate! Thanks!

Don't believe everything you read. Internal linking is VERY powerful from an SEO perspective. The idiot that wrote that is yet another dweeb that has learned a few SEO buzz words and tauts themselves as an SEO expert.

Originally Posted by Social-Media

Don't believe everything you read. Internal linking is VERY powerful from an SEO perspective. The idiot that wrote that is yet another dweeb that has learned a few SEO buzz words and tauts themselves as an SEO expert.

Yup,that's one of the problems online,everyone is an expert,critic etc...But dont judge too fast,most of us do the same thing every day,we create a niche website,pay some freelancer $100 for a few articles,he writes them,we post them,and another spam page is created,the information the end-user receives is not really from an expert,it's just something that someone read and wrote again with different words,but who cares,it makes good money,and that's all that matters,we can't all be like Jobs and "put a dent in the universe"

In my own experiences, having a well structured, keyword oriented internal linking system would be really helpful in increasing link popularity and thus helps a lot in ranking purpose, too.

Thanks,

Interlinking is good there is no problem in if you do it. But while doing external linking i will suggest you that link with the same category blogs otherwise it may not have much value.

HI,

Internal link is must for a site. If internal linking structure helps the google to crawl the website properly. Its attracts the visitors