Hi Jay, great tip about internal linking - thank you

What I've been doing recently, is creating an "additional reading" section at the bottom of the blog article and linking through to older posts.(similar to what you've just mentioned) Online newspapers use the strategy showing you some images and headlines of older articles.

As I use categories for blogs it is easier to find old blogs within the category to link to. I create the section using columns and images.

I changed my website in Dec 2023 and ranking fell off a cliff. I'm trying all sorts of things to get the rankings higher again. The "additional reading" results look promising with the blogs and the website as a whole, slowly clawing it's way back up the rankings again.

Hey Jay, thanks for this. It is imperative to cross-link old and new posts as they help each other rank.

I have noticed your domain does not have dashes in between the words. As far as I know, from years ago already, your domain would be interpreted as a phrase that could easily rank if you separate the words like "I-film-things.com" and your homepage would very likely rank higher, especially if it is a high-demand and lowish competition long-tail keyword.

Something that I am practicing with the right post with traffic.

Thanks for the great tip, Jay! I do have one question ?
I’ve got one site that gets decent traction, and I recently built a sub-niche survival website as a smooth runoff from my Bigfoot site. The new site is only a week old and is already getting traffic from Google and Bing. I’ve got two blogs on the Bigfoot site that match up with posts on the survival one. So instead of an internal link, it would be more like a backlink, would this still help boost the newer content, or is the magic mainly in linking within the same site?

Shawn

Cool. Define an older post that has some traction. Are we talking impressions or clicks?