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Connected Internet: Deep Linking, Or Rethink Your Site Promotion Strategy

  • Tomaz · 2 years ago
    Once my site ranks well for its main keyword and I exchange links with other websites, I always link to internal pages.

    They eventually pass pagerank to the homepage too if linked properly.
  • A. Adam · 2 years ago
    Very well written article. Too often people don't consider the negative effects of deeplinking, good that you pointed those out.
  • Urbanist · 2 years ago
    I've noticed immediate benefits from deep linking, particularly if the post that is doing the linking to other older posts hits the front page of a site like Digg, Reddit or Fark - Google seems to crawl it right away and pass on the link juice to the other page. This is a great way of building PR to older posts you think should have more juice than they do, not to mention a good way to expose readers to other good on-site content!
  • Alopecia · 2 years ago
    Deep linking is important, but I guess once your homepage starts showing ranks then linking to internal pages become easier. But it is a good to start working on homepage link as well as other pages link at the same time, and not wait for homepage to come up and then start working on the other pages.
  • 3gp · 2 years ago
    Thanks for the writeup.

    Deep links help create trust in the eyes of Google and i have seen it is good when trust is developed you start ranking for many other keywords and will not only increase PR but start sending some good traffic aswell.
  • Micah · 2 years ago
    I tend to go the route of linking to the homepage only. I figure once the homepage is high enough, the PR will trickle down enough to get the deeper links. But, once the homepage is to my liking, I think I'll start linking to individual pages more and see how that goes.
  • Kline · 2 years ago
    Well gee, It seems that most of you already know about deeplinking :)

    To Mycell, yes, it will trickledown, but I do not feel it is 'natural' enough, and if you run a blog, your old posts will quickly lose that trickle down effect ranking. I wouldn't recommend it for every page, but if you feel you wrote something fantastic, or if you have certain pages highly SEO optimized for keyword density or content or whatever, backlinking directly to that page does have its advantages.

    I'm sure theres some disadvantages I am missing, if you can think of one, post away!
  • abhishek · 2 years ago
    This makes perfect sense for blogs but it is also helpful for other sites too who want to rank high for different keywords.If you put all the keywords on the homepage Google wont like them so its always best to have internal pages also to be used in the link building so that not only u get high PR for those pages as well but it also gets the keywords its niche
    Cheers
    Abhishek
  • Glenn · 1 year ago
    Deep linking is a good SEO trick!
  • Starcraft 2 · 5 days ago
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