What I learned about internal links

I recently learned how important internal links are - to help my reader and to gain google rankings both. I keep evolving on my blog, step by step. This is the latest new improvement.

NO Internal Links

I had over 25 posts, with no links among them. I learned about internal links. So I went back into each one and put links to other posts on my own website. That makes them internal.

External is when you link to Amazon, or to Wealthy Affiliates from your blog.

Just like with an external link, I put in to open in a new page by using the settings gear to open up the options.

One thing that is really cool, is that in the settings, you get all the posts listed on your site, so you can choose which one to link the chosen words of your post to. It is really easy to do!

By going back and doing this internal linking, I accomplished three things:

1. my readers can get information they want and get involved in my blog.
   
2. Google likes updated activity, and I sure gave it that! That should help me get ranking improvement.
   

and

3. Google likes the internal links themselves, and that will help my rankings.

A word of caution -

make sure the link is to relevant information! You don't want to mess up on accomplishment #1, the reason to have a blog at all!