Friday, January 28, 2011

Why Setting Up Internal Links is So Important

By Josh Martin


How to Setup Internal Links Within Your Website.

Internal links are hyperlinks the point to specific pages within a website. If you want your website to have more credibility and exposure then you want to link to multiple pages within that site. If your site has multiple links to different pages within the site then it makes it look more legitimate.


Where to Add Internal Links



Setting up links within your site is very easy to do. Just take several of your different keywords that are in your articles and create a hyperlink that links to other pages within your website that relates to those keywords.

It's important to make your keyword into a hyperlink rather than posting multiple url's in your articles. Search engines take special notice to the amount of keywords that link to various pages in your site. Url's don't carry as much weight with the search engines.

If you have other sites that you want to promote then you'll want to setup up links that point to those sites. Even though internal linking is important, you'll want to setup backlinks that promote your other sites as well because backlinks carry a lot of weight with the search engines.

The search engines put a heavy amount of weight on the number of links that point to a website. If there's a lot of backlinks that point to a particular website then that shows the search engines that the website is important and relevant.

On top of setting up internal links you'll want to make sure that you set up links to other sites that you own as well.

If you are running your website on WordPress then I highly recommend using a plugin called Seo Pressor because it will remind you to set up an internal link on every post. Also, Seo Pressor will make sure that you set up h1, h2, and h3 tags on every post, add rel="nofollow" to external links, add an image with alt tag set to your keyword, and it will automatically bold, italicize, and underline your keyword. These are all critical elements to follow in order to achieve top seo rankings.

Just remember that your site will look more credible with visitors and the search engines if you have multiple links going to the different pages on your website.




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