Sorting Out Pages with Low Outgoing or Incoming Internal Links

Low incoming links

The most ideal approach to begin improving your internal links is by recognizing pages which have a minimal number of internal links. Each page should have a minimum of 1-2 internal links (pointing to other pages within the same domain).

For this particular one, we will have to leverage the Site Audit feature of the SEMRush tool which you’ll be using as your personal SEO suite. Using the SEMRush tool, you can always sort out pages with low incoming links.

You can get SEMRush totally free for 14 days.

  • Go to the site audit feature in your SEMRush account Dashboard and add your site;
  • Conduct an overall website audit (the free trial version of this tool will also allow you to run the complete audit).

Locate issues and click on it. Under Notices, click on the option that states, "X pages with just one or less incoming links".

Once you’ve clicked, you’ll see the list of those pages that require your consideration.

While you are leveraging the issue feature of the SEMRush tool, do evaluate a couple of different things.

Anyway, let’s now move on to other pieces of this riddle and sort out pages from where you can begin assigning more internal links.

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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
@kpercival55
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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@Nick-at-WA
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
So, Israel, how many internal links do you recommend for each post? Will one or two do it?
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@FKelso
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
@lesabre
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
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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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