Comments on: What is a Good Internal Linking Structure?

By: Using Uncommon SEO to Boost Traffic

Using Uncommon SEO to Boost Traffic — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:29:07 +0000

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By: Glenna

Glenna — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:39:30 +0000

Hi Josh, Someone asked but I didn’t see an answer. Do the links in the columns of your blog count as internal links for that page or do you have to have the links in each post?

By: Max

Max — Mon, 25 May 2009 20:23:19 +0000

Josh, you wrote:

“Iâ€™m not sure who didnâ€™t recommend nofollowing external links like social bookmarking sites and any other links that doesnâ€™t need authority, but it wasnâ€™t me”

So are you suggesting we shouldn’t include nofollow n links to some external pages? But not our own affiliate pages? How do we choose which external links to add nofollow to then? Do we remove the nofollow links just from the social bookmarking sites?

I read the article again. But I still don’t understand why you would put nofollow tags on your afiliate links – surely you want the page rank of of your affiliate links to have a high page rank no? For many people these are the most important pages to have a high page rank as these are the money pages.

The higher the page rank of my affiliate pages, the more sales are likley to be made.

By: Work at Home Ideas

Work at Home Ideas — Mon, 25 May 2009 09:38:20 +0000

I agreed an organised linking structure is needed on larger sites. I now tend to favour the ‘organisation chart’ approach but seem to have reasonable success with the tag and category approach too.

By: Dennis Grubbs

Dennis Grubbs — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:35:35 +0000

I recently ditched the tags system on my blog and will now have to implement some manual internal linking between posts. The main reason I ditched it was 1, it was not very aesthetically pleasing, and 2, it wouldn’t let me use say “internet marketing” for a tag and also “internet marketing” for a category. So I said to hell with it.

By: Day Trading for Beginners

Day Trading for Beginners — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:53:59 +0000

Thanks for this valuable and informative post, Josh. I always knew that internal linking had some importance, but this has reinforced ways of excluding some of the pages that don’t need the authority, even though there is a link there.

Kind regards,

Barry

By: Adrian Lee

Adrian Lee — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:51:19 +0000

It was only after I’ve read your post that I realized that internal linking was important.

Does this mean that as long as your internal links out-number your external links you should come out ahead?

How about making some external links “nofollow” and leave the rest as it is?

By: Josh Spaulding

Josh Spaulding — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:51:30 +0000

@ David – Sure, I have all internal pages linked to on all pages at http://www.gethomemortgageloan.com/

Yes, that’s why I recommend linking to all pages ON all pages for “thin” sites with only a few pages.

@ Dennis – No you would definitely not get penalized for nofollowing external linsks. If you DON’T nofollow links that are blackhat you could get penalized though.

By: Dennis Grubbs

Dennis Grubbs — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:08:19 +0000

I had never thought of adding “nofollow” to my contact page links.

What about not linking to 95% of external links? Would that get penalized? I used to get a crapload of spam because I didn’t use “nofollow” at all. So I started using “nofollow” and that eliminated the spam. Now I only manually “dofollow” links, which are normally very few links.

I “nofollow” all links unless it is to someone I know personally or a site that I highly recommend. So would I get penalized for that?

By: Paula

Paula — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:37:35 +0000

Great tip about not linking to your Contact page. I will be adding the nofollow to those links asap on all my websites.