Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Why Setting Up Internal Links is So Important

By Josh Martin


How to Setup Internal Links Within Your Website.

Internal links are hyperlinks that link to related pages on a website. It's important to set up links within your website because it gives your site more credibility and exposure to your visitors. Your website will look more legitimate to visitors if you have multiple links going to different pages within your site.


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 very important to take your specific keyword and make it into a hyperlink rather than posting several different url's within your articles. The search engines pay special attention to the number of keywords that link to the different pages within your site and url's don't carry as much weight with them.

Even though internal linking within your own site is important you'll also want to set up links to other sites as well. If you have additional websites then you can set up links that point to that website as well. This will help to promote and create credibility within you other sites by creating backlinks.

If a website has a lot of backlinks that point to it then this shows the search engines that the website is relevant and important. Google puts a heavy emphasis on the number of backlinks that point to a particular website.

Make sure that you link to other sites that you want to promote on top of setting up internal links.

If you want to achieve top seo rankings then I highly recommend purchasing an plugin called Seo Pressor if you're running your website on Wordpress. This plugin will remind you to setup internal links on every post, add rel nofollow to external links, add h1, h2, and h3 tags to every post, and how to setup alt tags for all images on your website. This tool makes seo fun and easy to do.

If you link to several different pages within your website then your website will look more credible and important with the search engines and your prospects.




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