How to Distinguish Pages with the Low Number of Outgoing Internal Links

For this very one, we’re going to leverage the pro version of Yoast SEO. This version can likewise give you a chance to distinguish pages with low incoming links also.

Go to the Tools feature and have the text link counter feature enabled. Right in the SEMRUSH dashboard, you have all of your blog posts listed in the posts edit section.

Here, you can identify the columns based on the increasing or decreasing request of the number of links. In any way, one particular feature that I miss finding in the number of internal links is the possibility to account for the list of posts linked to that blog article.

Notwithstanding, this can be sorted out using another WordPress plugin known as WP Link status. Though this particular plugin has not yet been updated for a very long time, it works fine till date.

For a WordPress website, issues can be figured out fast using the pro version of Yoast SEO. Other sites outside WordPress & BlogSpot can leverage the SEMRUSH tool to identify such issues.

Once you’ve successfully singled out such posts with the low number of outgoing or incoming internal links, a large portion of your activity is already done. Henceforth, you should begin working toward updating the posts to improve the complete internal linking structure of your site.



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kpercival55 Premium
Excellent training Israel,
Thanks for sharing and making it easy to follow. Before reading this I didn’t understand the difference between outgoing or incoming internal links. I always appreciate learning something new.
All the best to you,
KyleAnn
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Israel17 Premium
You're most welcome, KyleAnn. Kudos for reading this training piece! Yes, incoming internal links redirect readers back to other pages on your blog while outgoing internal links redirect visitors to pages outside your blog and building internal links are instrumental for SEO and ranking.

Thanks for your contribution!

Israel Olatunji
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Nick-at-WA Premium
Thanks for the training...
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Israel17 Premium
Good to hear from you, Nick! Thanks for stopping by and kudos for reading this training piece! Improving your internal linking system is of paramount importance to building authority and driving more traffic. Thanks for contributing!

Israel Olatunji
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FKelso Premium Plus
So, Israel, how many internal links do you recommend for each post? Will one or two do it?
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Israel17 Premium
You're most welcome on board, FKelso. Thanks for reading this training piece! Yeah, there are two major types of internal links: the incoming internal links & the outgoing internal links & you're going to need to add between 5-10 of these to every 1200+ words post. This will ensure that for those pages that rank well, the link juice can be passed on to the weak ones. Thanks for asking!

Israel Olatunji
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lesabre Premium
Hi Israel,

Haven't heard from you in a while. Hope all is well.

Thank you for sharing a great and important tutorial.

All the best,

Michael
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Israel17 Premium
Hey Michael, thanks for being so caring and passionate! You are highly cherished, friend. Though I wasn't actually creating around here for a couple of weeks past, I've been stable again creating useful resources over the past 2 months now. Kudos for reading this important training and thanks for finding it as such!

Israel Olatunji
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ecomtom Premium
Thanks Israel. Wondered what the ideal number of internal links was. Most of my posts have only 1 or 2. I will go through and add a few more. Would it help to have more than 1 or 2 external links per post, or is this enough? Tom
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Israel17 Premium
Thanks so greatly, ecomtom! Kudos for reading this training! As a good measure to boost SEO for your industry websites, you need to add incoming and outgoing internal links and these should be about 5-10 per 1200+ words post. The SEMRush tool should also be leveraged as this has many great features such as the Site Audit feature that will facilitate your overall site audit. Thanks for contributing!

Israel Olatunji
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