Internal Links for Website Optimization

 About Internal Links

Internal links are of two types text-based and image-based. Done properly, they are a major boost for optimizing a website and can influence ranking to a considerable extent. It also plays a major role in increasing the accessibility of web pages. However, like external linkings or inbound links, outbound links are contextual and could be subject to anchor text spam, so be careful. 

This may all look simple, but internal linking becomes a complex issue in the case of major portals. The activity prioritizes content and builds the correct hierarchy in the link architecture. Usually, in a site with good architecture, all-important content or utility pages should be accessible with two or three clicks, four at the most. 

These links could be placed within the content, in the sidebars, headers, and footer. They are instrumental in finding key content the user is looking for, especially in the case of very large websites which are often too complex to use. 

If you successfully create a topic cluster and link to a pillar page, the results are far better. But it would be best if you strictly stuck to contextual relevance. 

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Uday provides a search engine optimization service for digital marketing. In addition, he provides website content and content for authoritative links. 

He can be contacted at: 

pateluday90@hotmail.com

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A Back Link in The Cyber Space: Use and Misuse

About External Linking

Every aspect of website on page and off page is user experience. We do not visit the cyber space to change our clothes; we dwell in the vast space for seconds, minutes and hours and in times of Covid 19 perhaps for days. The visits are based in our intent but they excite our sensory apparatus - this reasoning is without any doubt.  For most visitors the virtual word is not for an escape or a an addiction, it is like exploring an island an intent oriented approach. 

Next Gen Evolution

Every given moment people wish to seek new discoveries and experiences. Perhaps static SERP with same keyword response again and again will become a negative experience devoid of thrill of discovering something new - an information panel that rotates may be the next gen evolution. This may happen in near future in order to make search results dynamic.  

Backlinks Regulations & Metrics

When the search engines began to discover websites and blogs, they relied on links and associated search terms on board for ranking purpose. They still do. 

Back links besides internal links are pathways of invaluable discovery. This experience has become better with  regulatory measures that have set in with the "nofollow" HTML instructions inserted within the code. This is to inform search engines to ignore the link or treat it partially for extracting information but no authority to be accorded. This has to be in place, for links are part of the cyber space which relies on networking and they serve other purpose as well. Even in excess, they provide access to information and may transform intent upon switch to the next page as well. They are excellent means of  creating referrals and saturate the web with website presence at the same time. They should never be misused. 

Content Wrapped Links 

Content wrapped links provide valuable information about the nature of the source as well as the forwarded page especially as regards the associated words. They also encourage content creation and enhance use of attributes like videos, inforgraphics and images. They are indispensable for search engines as well as the visitors. On many instances like in case of internal connect they encourage stay on the source besides making it more interesting or useful. This form of connect is between pages of a website or a portal with the aim of making the architecture and hence the user experience more fluid and rewarding.   

Ranking Metrics

The search engines now include plethora of metrics in order to index and rank a web page or a blog entry. Unfortunately back links as a metric received a bad reputation whence the black hats started to manipulate the ranking algorithms on similar lines as they did with keywords on page and off page. But search engines follow and evolutionary paradigm and continue to create fences around them that takes care of spammers. 

Links Are Evil

The perception has not changed especially in the mind of some editors who perceive every attribute that interconnects pages as spam or ill conceived. They are not to be blamed since the reputation garnered by the attribute has been blackened due earlier indiscriminate use in order to manipulate the ranking algorithms. Thankfully this has been taken care of, and one of the most active ingredient to keep the networked space alive has been given a life.         

HTML Code

How a link is created manually using HTML code. See the example below:

<a href="URL">anchortext</a>.

<a href="URL" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">anchor text</a>

The coding is diverse done for various purpose. You can read more below:

Link Anatomy

Building quality or authoritative links is the essence of this networked space but is also important for search engine optimization or SEO. Webmasters use them in their campaign and if they are honest nothing like it. Those with editorial scrutiny become valuable for SEO and the ones naturally gained due to usefulness of the web page become more valued for ranking purpose. 

Link building is for diverse reasons as explained above but the webmasters should pay attention to search engine guidelines and to other aspects of page quality as well. User experience (UX) is supreme and the page loses its content value if the experience is in the negative.    

Although local listing is highly valuable avoid listing to SEO friendly directories until unless you can list the site in a niche. Forum and blog comment posting have been degraded almost to the level of "nofollow". But they may have some usefulness but this should not be for spam certainly. Even guest posting on blogs should use the "nofollow" attribute in the links.         

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Uday provides search engine optimization service for digital marketing. He provides website contents and content for authoritative links. 

He also teaches digital marketing in his home town Jabalpur. He can be contacted at: 

pateluday90@hotmail.com

09755089323          

           

Acknowledging Content Spam & Impact on Associated Links

Of Website Content 

Content along with links especially on website are the most important element of cyber ecosystem. They are instrumental in reacting to search engine algorithms and provide crucial information (answer to query) to site visitors. In short write for the user...and further... bad contents will bring bad results and will be acknowledged as spam in quite a few instances.  

This fact should be known to website owners who hire webmasters or agencies for promotion of their website or holistic digital marketing campaigns. Seo content writing differs from the regular stuff and SEs have blocked spam using high prevalence of keywords as a yardstick measuring goodness. 

Thus malady afflicts those who pen website pages, blog posts and articles for search engines rather than the users. Boldly repeating contents on page or in another page in the website architecture is certainly not impressive and is boring. Search engines upon noticing the futility of repeat paragraph/page would downgrade the page...writing same thing in a subtly disguised manner would also harbor same action since the algorithms are being constantly enhanced to deal with dilution or spam. This would also lead to penalizing of internal pages linked with content with malicious intent. In case of doubt create a sub section under suitable heading or main link and add the new page there underneath. If repeated or similar content is present lower down the hierarchy it should be more acceptable?            

Not only repeating in any form but also adding content not narrowly relevant to the topic can be seen as spam. this is done to increase website presence on far related topic. The link and content architecture of a website should be unique relevant and designed for the visitors.   

Repeating kills creativity, for it is a mad rush to impress the search engine it thus drains energy to create a new vision using words that are clearly invigorating to the readers and explain things better. Yes people like flair in the pen provided it explains things in a lucid manner and is not abstract. Visitor need direct and simple answer to their query be it navigational, informative of transactional whatever the intent. The attention span of most visitors is limited and there is no time for unravelling intrigue or abstract.  

More on Duplicate Contents

Creating New Pages 

Whence you create a new page be careful even honest intention can be construed as malicious if it is to narrowly related to the existing. Sometimes it is necessary to create such pages in order to bolster the information architecture of the website as whole. Another unintentional spam is seen on eCommerce sites in case of product descriptions where remarkably similar description are used in case of items separated by dimensions or price. 

Large portals are subject to repeat content which inadvertently creeps in especially in case where other writers dabble or have written in part. It is a mind boggling exercise which will lead to fatigue if scrutiny is made to extricate such malicious impact and most webmasters ignore if the fee paid is less and hence the time accorded or reasonable traffic is in place. But these site sooner or later will be beaten hollow by the peer on SERPs.     

Earlier a large number of pages where created to attract attention to closely related search terms. This is spam and making them landing pages will not achieve any authority for the website. A unique write up using semantics will automatically focus on diverse  search terms. Those out of purview will not be closely related hence a new page can be created as sub division of the same topic without any fear of losing authority if not penal action. Topics or sub topics can be repeated on new pages in order to elaborate information but the phrase used as introductory on a parent page should not be used.        

Search Engine Optimization Ethos    

Search engine should avoid penalty in the optimization framework rather they should discount authority if malicious intent is found. Imposing penalty is regressive and conservative unless until it is a case of a direct threat that viciously manipulates the algorithms. 

Website owners often fail to pay enough attention to on page contents because either they are not aware of ever changing dynamics of algorithms and the importance of on page content, or do not have enough budget to hire a seo writer which by all means come expensive. Search engine optimization is an art unlike its parent fold known as digital marketing and art costs money.

This is just an introduction to content spam more digging will be revelation in this series. Stay Hooked!

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About Author

Uday provides affordable search engine optimization or SEO Services and Contents for Digital Marketing. 

He also teaches Internet Marketing in summers in Jabalpur in India his hometown. 

Uday is a freelance Naturalist and birder and mixes all vocations to make a living, 

He can be contacted at:

pateluday90@hotmail.com

9755089323

    

Search Engine Optimization Failure due to Structural Faults in Websites

As a Website Owner You Should Know all This

Web designers rarely care about optimization elements in the designs. This is not totally correct for those with SEO understandings and regular touch with the SEO consultants do care about elements or attributes that would help the site in ranking and win on the social networks.  

The first element and that which is of utmost importance is of course the link architecture. Search engines index and rank a website using standard calculations of hundreds of metrics they are able to decipher or concur from the website visits time to time. The algorithms like to run through the portals in an orderly manner with ease.

Website Link Architecture

The link architecture is arrangement of pages in an orderly manner. The funnel should create a logical graph depending upon the descending scale of importance to the visitors and certified by the funnel graph as we see in the Google analytics and that of other search engines. It should lead to the right end or conclusion example contact page, booking page purchase page, etc. 

Hence the home page would be the first page that a user would often land upon in an architecture of website this is given the greatest importance in the link architecture until unless it is a doorway page.

Another delimitation of home page being relegated is if the page is purely introduction in nature. Then it is somewhat relegated vis a vis a page with detailed information with an option to click the action button. Anyway in all cases it is the most prominent page from which all other pages are linked incidentally the Home Page is the most promoted page. Hence this should make things clear about the doorway pages they should be avoided anyway search engines do not appreciate them. 

All the pages be they information or functional pages should be linked to the home page. These should be placed on the top links in a series depending upon their scale of importance:

Home.2.3.4. contact...booking..testimonials, reviews...thanks. The pages post home page are also called internal pages.          

Additional information to be added are usually on two tier in form of html pages, pdf, articles etc.  They should be linked from topical pages or extremely relevant internal pages. Linking to other websites should be avoided even if you own them especially if they are placed in same folder in the hosting space.

Website Contents

Contents to the pages are most important and pages with thin contents are not appreciated. Meaningful and relevant, the contents should be well written without any blemish. The formatting of the contents is important as well for they inform search engines about the importance of the paragraphs as well as of the relevancy. Do not include contents which are not at all related. If the contents add to greater but related information then add them in 2 tier. 

They keyword saturation is important when writing contents for the websites. Spamming is not at all appreciated and your page will be pushed lower down the rung. H 1 and H2 tags should be used frugally usually H1 is the first tag which means important content is placed highest on the hierarchy or arrangement ...naturally. Tags are used in titles and usually H1 is used only once. 

Place contents in quotes if they are suggestive of greater thought or opinion. 

Avoid duplicate contents or similar contents use canonical meta tag if similar or repeated contents have to be used. Duplicate contents copied from other websites is a sure shot failure bound.  Hire a good content writer!

Attributes

Add videos, graphics, and images which are related and use descriptive alt text without fail. Do not keyword spam here as well a warning since the temptation is great.  

The text to background contrast should be appreciable and distance between links should not create a cluster separated by appreciable distance.  

Add indexing and follow option in the meta tag without fail in each page. Leave the robot.txt file empty or add page exclusion instructions without errors.   

Add both HTML and XML site maps and regularly updated. in coding replace index.html with absolute URL on all pages. Some scripts are not properly negotiated by search engines avoid them. Make sure all the pages except those with noindex/nofollow are crawled by the search engines. 

It is wise to be in Google Search Console which will help discover discrepancies and anomaly in site performance also place Google analytical code and connect it with the search console.
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Uday provides SEO and Internet Marketing Services. He also provides website contents in English. He teaches Internet Marketing in Jabalpur.
Contact: pateluday90@hotmail.com
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