Same here. High-quality internal links are very important, especially those which link between pages that have a close relationship, with good anchor text. I always try to find out which pages already receive traffic, and then link from there.
For me it was improving the site speed. It resulted in the website visitors spending more time on my websites and thus Google rewarded me with more higher rankings.
Most strong seo signals will be with a standalone blog (not all on one domain) and the default flat next and back linking, not more, not deep silo (crawl waste)
As I’ve seen, content that matches the actual search intent works better than expected. For few pages, simply making answer clearer around what users actually need and removing unnecessary sections enough to improve their visibility.
Updating older content has worked surprisingly well for me. Sometimes improving the title, intro and internal links gives better results than publishing a completely new article
Another thing I’ve noticed is that internal linking can make a bigger difference than expected, especially when older articles already have some authority and traffic.
For me, improving internal linking and updating existing content around search intent made the biggest difference. Even small changes to titles, headings, and outdated sections can noticeably improve organic performance.
One of my website was getting about 500 pv per day. I thought to rework on the website and changed the content on most of the pages. It had positive effect and in next four months, the traffic on the blog tripled without me creating lot of backlinks.
100%. The best change one can make to improve ranking is internal linking. You have full control over the anchor texts used and the way link equity is distributed by PageRank. Directly passing link equity from your most authoritative pages to money pages works wonders/
Yeah, internal links tend to be easily overlooked.
Yes, cannibalization could silently cause signals to separate across pages. I would verify whether there is overlap of intent between the two pages through keywords and backlinks before merging them.
