How to Begin with Internal Linking

The rule of the thumb of internal linking is that pages should be relevant contextually. However, in most feasible cases, leverage the anchor text internal links.

Relevant posts upon posts and Featured posts in your sidebar are the absolute, most straightforward techniques to link to a webpage internally. Literally, there are some WordPress plugins that can assist you with doing internal linking quickly.

You should emulate Wikipedia, and include 5-10 internal links in a post of 1500+ words. There is no restriction for internal links so far they are logically-relevant and accommodating for clients.

I frequently include internal links while creating a bit of content or when editing it. If you do have an editorial employee in your company, you should get him trained for including the internal links while proofreading content.

If you’ve been using the pro version of Yoast SEO, you’ll observe that it has an amazing feature known as “Yoast internal linking” which suggests the relevant articles on your blog that you can link each of your articles to. You’ll get an instruction to consider linking to some relevant posts on your blog. That’s one of the great features we have available in the Yoast SEO plugin.

If you intend to include the internal links in a blog with more than 200 blog posts, the Yoast SEO plugin will spare you a lot of time.

However, what about older posts?

How would you sort out pages where you haven't included enough internal links or pages that have low incoming links? Below, you’ll figure out how to distinguish such pages. When you have done that, you can begin proofreading them.