Comments on: Using Internal Linking to Build Backlinks – Part 6

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:49:03 +0000

I subscribed to your blog – you have lots of good content that I am using.

Thanks.

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:20:29 +0000

I knew all the benefits to it, I just didn’t know that it was best to be do-follow, since the SE’s were there anyway. I forgot about passing PR from page to page though.

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By: Breakaway

Breakaway — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:20:17 +0000

They CAN be dofollow, but then it’d be treated just like any dofollow link. There are many reasons for internal linking:

1) Your visitors can click through to more pages, which means more pageviews (for those with banners based on pageviews) more time on site (so more chances to click ads) and more likely to subscribe/bookmark the longer they stay at your site.

2) Search engine crawling… it allows the search engines to crawl throughout your site more.

3) It passes your page rank to all of your internal pages. People go back and forth about if page rank matters or not, but if you ever are planning to sell your site, PR increases the $$$ you receive.

Hope that kinda clears up the use of nofollow in internal linking. Some people make their about page and contact pages links nofollow, since those pages don’t really need pagerank and authority anyway.

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:57:52 +0000

Silly question – do internal links have to be do follow? When the spiders crawl, don’t they see all and where they lead?

I dunno, this just seemed different then outgoing links to me…like comments and such.

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By: Breakaway

Breakaway — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:20:14 +0000

Well, add the links in the post or site page. Then, just using Firefox, go to that page, and with the find nofollow Firefox plugin i talked about, see if it is or isn’t. 90% of the time, it probably will be dofollow, and you don’t have to worry.

If it is nofollow, shoot me a message on the contact form, and I’ll help you debug it.

By: Uncle Che

Uncle Che — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 06:08:09 +0000

I never took internal link building seriously. I always concentrated on external links, but your series has given me light on this. One question, though. HOW DO I ENSURE THAT MY INTERNAL LINKS ARE NOFOLLOW FREE?

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By: Breakaway

Breakaway — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:20:32 +0000

I do the full linking… even when designing themes and stuff, i always do the full linking. I don’t know if it’s better or not, but it seems better to me, so that’s what I do. No specific logic to it, but yah.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:59:00 +0000

Which would be better for internal linking?

a) a href=”/page/”

b) a href=”http://www.blog.com/page/”

does it not matter?

By: Tool Belts

Tool Belts — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:49:24 +0000

great article I need to go back and re-read the whole series. Thanks

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:18:00 +0000

This helps a lot actually. I’ve been very lax up to now in checking out GWT. I must do it!

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