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Some important tips for internal linking structure of a website -


- Make sure that your most important pages are linked from all of your other pages.

- If you are using graphical, Java Script or Flash based navigation and link buttons, then create text links on the bottom of all your pages.

- Try to include keywords in your text links to your internal pages. This will tell the search engines what your pages are about.

Hi

I think the better way to design a website is that page loadings between two pages must bee low ,

it should be much more user friendly,data retrival and data access should be faster, database updation must be more important for better access

bespoke ecommerce

Internal liking definitely helps in terms Search Engine but often people messed up and forget about their users behavior & taste. And there they make  mistake which results low returns.

How?

If the users find difficult browsing your site then how you can expect better return.

So do keep in mind your users too while creating internal linking structure for your website.

Yeah you should link only relevant and important pages which keeps your users busy reading info flipping through all the pages. Definitely you content should have quality.

Make sure that your most important pages are linked from all of your other pages.

- If you are using graphical, Java Script or Flash based navigation and link buttons, then create text links on the bottom of all your pages.

- Try to include keywords in your text links to your internal pages. This will tell the search engines what your pages are about.

When you have used fancy menu in your website based on Javascrit, Flash or CSS media queries, there may be possibilities of not working if viewed from different browsers. It may possible that a search engine may find difficulties to follow links and you make sure that it should get indexed.

Always link bank to your old articles when doing additional web contents. Make sure that you're linking back to a related topic. We don't want to confuse our readers by pointing them to a non related article they are not interested reading. Make your anchor text search engine friendly so that the page will appear in the search result when someone runs a query about it.

The internal linking structure of a web site are determines where link juice goes within, eventually touching which areas gain higher rankings in search results. The more links there are to a page, the more link juice it is capable of transient around within.

A website’s internal linking structure is a crucial part of the overall SEO strategy. Whether it is the end user or the search engines, it is important to optimize a site’s internal structure for maximizing the benefits. If you plan to obtain high rankings in search engines, you need to effectively plan your website’s internal linking structure, also termed as a website’s navigational structure or site architecture. The inner structure of the site must be planned adhering to the usability guidelines as well as the best search engine optimization practices.

The reason why MarcusWrite mentioned about using text links down the bottom of all your pages if your using graphical, JavaScript or Flash based navigation is because the search engines normally doesn't understand this language. This means your links would not work well with your SEO if you didn't include these text links down the bottom of your pages.