Can you have too many internal links?
Published on March 14, 2019
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Whilst looking at my website the other day it came to me that all of my posts have internal links. This may not be seen as a bad thing as the training encourages us to have links from one post to another so that visitors are encouraged to look around the site.
However, I decided to read the site as if I was a visitor to it. As I followed links from one post to another, I realized that visitors to my website might feel that they were going round in circles. It is a site promoting Wealthy Affiliate but there were very few direct CTA links that went to Wealthy Affiliate itself.
I do tend to have WA banners on each post but if my site visitors are anything like me they probably ignore these. My brain does tend to ignore adverts if I am looking for information (I realize that this maybe just me!) so I feel that I should have CTA links within the actual posts.
Therefore, I have done some updating of my posts so that people don't have search for a link to WA - fingers crossed that this will help with referrals!
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