The power of internal linking

I made a few changes to my internal linking structure, one of which is a link from an internal page pointing to my homepage with an exact match anchor text. This internal page was super-relevant to the anchor text, and its corresponding topic, that I was using to link to the homepage.

These changes were made 8 days ago, and look at the results -

I was looking for a plugin or tool to automatically detect relevant internal links for all the posts....shouldn't be too difficult to develop and I wonder why there are so few options with so much advancement in AI tech. The current options such as linkwhisper charge very high prices. As we add new posts, we need to revisit relevant old posts and add links to the new posts manually which is very time consuming and frustrating.

@davids355 Impressive!

@vin42 Today I have downloaded "Internal Link Juicer" which is a free WordPress plugin. But haven't tried it out yet. In the next few days I will take a closer look on that. Have you tried this one already?

vin42 said:

I was looking for a plugin or tool to automatically detect relevant internal links for all the posts....shouldn't be too difficult to develop and I wonder why there are so few options with so much advancement in AI tech. The current options such as linkwhisper charge very high prices. As we add new posts, we need to revisit relevant old posts and add links to the new posts manually which is very time consuming and frustrating.

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You can get link whisper here as @Festinger has shared it for free, also @davids355 not at all surprised cause each and every seo guide I have read here has spoken about the power of internal links hopefully you’ll post more case studies on this soon

vin42 said:

I was looking for a plugin or tool to automatically detect relevant internal links for all the posts....shouldn't be too difficult to develop and I wonder why there are so few options with so much advancement in AI tech. The current options such as linkwhisper charge very high prices. As we add new posts, we need to revisit relevant old posts and add links to the new posts manually which is very time consuming and frustrating.

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I heard very good things about Link Whisper
but I personally use Interlinks Manager

@davids355 Yes !! interlinking is godsent if done correctly.
It's such an underestimated technique.

Mr Positive said:

You can get it here as @Festinger has shared it for free, also @davids355 not at all surprised cause each and every seo guide I have read here has spoken about the power of internal links hopefully you’ll post more case studies on this soon

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Which one are you talking about?

Mr Positive said:

You can get link whisper here as @Festinger has shared it for free, also @davids355 not at all surprised cause each and every seo guide I have read here has spoken about the power of internal links hopefully you’ll post more case studies on this soon

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Yes, I have that and its the best out of all available. But that's a very old version and not very accurate. Its not accurate in the sense that instead of the keyphrase it picks up something not related or it picks up more words surrounding the keyphrase or it picks up internal links not very related. I was just thinking that I hope some developer uses the latest NLP AI like GPT3 etc., to create something similar but more accurate. That is because newer technologies are able to grasp and understand content better. There has been a flood of content generation and content outline services based on these recently. That will improve accuracy dramatically.

vin42 said:

I was looking for a plugin or tool to automatically detect relevant internal links for all the posts....shouldn't be too difficult to develop and I wonder why there are so few options with so much advancement in AI tech. The current options such as linkwhisper charge very high prices. As we add new posts, we need to revisit relevant old posts and add links to the new posts manually which is very time consuming and frustrating.

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If you're using the Link whisper as mentioned. Instead of revisiting the old page. Just save as draft - On a reload that Link whisper pops up the related URLs - That way you can select related internal links before publishing

Excellent advice. Need to try this on a page I’m working on today. Interesting the effect of linking from an internal page back to the homepage .

Topiano said:

If you're using the Link whisper as mentioned. Instead of revisiting the old page. Just save as draft - On a reload that Link whisper pops up the related URLs - That way you can select related internal links before publishing

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mate, that's still manual! How the fuck am I supposed to interlink dozens of blog posts that my autoblogging software autoposts every day on multiple autoblogs. You guys don't understand the meaning of the word "automated", which is: install the software / plugin and then... done! It does the job without any other interaction because it's automated

@tazarbm ,

You better build a custom tool than waiting on some folks to get that done for you.

vin42 said:

I was looking for a plugin or tool to automatically detect relevant internal links for all the posts....shouldn't be too difficult to develop and I wonder why there are so few options with so much advancement in AI tech. The current options such as linkwhisper charge very high prices. As we add new posts, we need to revisit relevant old posts and add links to the new posts manually which is very time consuming and frustrating.

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Don't do this automatic my friend. Do this manually. it will give you maximum results.

Topiano said:

@tazarbm ,

You better build a custom tool than waiting on some folks to get that done for you.

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don't be butthurt, bro! Just because I'm right doesn't mean that you have to attack me! I only said what "automated" means because people forget it too easily. Besides, I can live without a tool like that just fine. And last but not least, had I had the resources and reason to do it I would. But just because I don't have those doesn't mean that others don't have them either

Logic, mate! Logic...

tazarbm said:

I only said what "automated"

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Automated doesn't mean set and forget. You spend turns on resources(time and money)trying to keep up/maintain algo updates depending on the project at hand. It takes human resources managing automated tools.

Link Whisper gives you a room to be in better control on your inbound links by manually check/uncheck what internal URL be best for your posts. There are several lots other configs you can make automatic saving you more time.

Honestly, if you don't understand how this tool works and trying to make bogus claims. Best to end this conversation here and shove it off your a**

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by manually check/un

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aka NOT automated. Everything else you've said I won't be commenting on until you piss me off really badly, but you either don't know what automated means (even though I explained it to you clearly), or are trolling me (in which case I approve of it because I love trolling ), or... maybe you have a reason defending misinformation

Mr Positive said:

You can get link whisper here as @Festinger has shared it for free, also @davids355 not at all surprised cause each and every seo guide I have read here has spoken about the power of internal links hopefully you’ll post more case studies on this soon

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Where do you get link wisper for free?. Last time I checked they gone saas/patched free gpl.

IM Rider said:

Where do you get link wisper for free?. Last time I checked they gone saas/patched free gpl.

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Look into the download section, Festinger has a version for FREE !

IM Rider said:

Where do you get link wisper for free?. Last time I checked they gone saas/patched free gpl.

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Also intetesred. I always work with Screaming Frog for this work.

@davids355 and others - why such result is not achieved from homepage, since the logo on every page is linked to homepage? it seems google ignores such links from header and footer as far as internal linking goes . thoughts?

fb3003 said:

@davids355 and others - why such result is not achieved from homepage, since the logo on every page is linked to homepage? it seems google ignores such links from header and footer as far as internal linking goes . thoughts?

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I was thinking about this as well. I believe it is first to do with the likelihood of it being clicked. That is why links nearer to the top of the content are considered more valuable.

I had a good example of this last week when I had a web 2.0 with a link near the bottom of the content, exact match anchor to a page on my money site. I moved the link further up the content on the web 2.0 and a week later the page on the money site moved from page 2, onto page 1. So I believe the more likelyhood of the link being clicked, the more powerful the link is in terms of link juice being sent to the target (Regardless of whether its an internal or external link).

Secondly, I believe that Google will also try to determine the relevance of the link and how much weight it should hold with regard to the target of the link.

Consider this analogy -

You make a presentation to 3 people about engine oil and afterwards those 3 people come and speak to me, about your presentation.

The first person is a delivery driver for Dominos Pizza. He tells me that you a little bit about engine oil.
The second person is a doctor, he tells me that you don't know anything about engine oil and what you said didn't make any sense.
The third person is a mechanic working for Maclaren, he tells me you are the most knowledgable person he has met, with regard to engine oil.

Which one do I believe and which persons opinion holds more weight?

I think Google will be looking at this type of thing when they are analysing links - internal and external - and using it to decide how much weight they should give to that link.

So if you have a link from an image that appears on every page on your website, and points to your homepage, how much value does that hold and is it really an endorsement of anything?
Whereas, if you have a page about engine performance, and in that page you have a link with the anchor text "engine oil" pointing to your homepage, how much weight does that hold? Arguably a lot more.