External and Internal Links Offer Benefits

  • Links to external sources (Maximum 3)

Builds Trust with search engines: The popularity of a web page increases when it is linked to authoritative sites. External links can affect your site's reputation. Search engines can see the content from high authority domains linking to your site, which allows it to better understand your niche. It will also trust your website.

Brand building: You can easily expand your reach by linking to other websites. An SEO manager might notice a link you have created from a blog post to another company. It is a way to establish a rapport with others and can lead to a mutually beneficial relationship. You can also reach out to other businesses and possibly backlink to their site.

Loyalty increases: You show your customer that you care by including external links. These links are important to ensure that your customers have the information they need and the resources they desire.

  • Building more Internal Links (Maximum 7)

Too many external links can make your readers unhappy. Concentrate more on the internal links.

Your site will be easier to use if you do internal linking. They don't have to go through your blog archives and then search for the link they need. The link is already in the content/blog that you provided.

It's placed at the perfect time and in the most pertinent place for the reader. Your site will be easy to navigate and useful if you have many carefully planned internal links. These links make your site more engaging and appealing to visitors.

Internal links will enhance your SEO. Google will see your website as more valuable if other niche-related websites connect to it. This will improve your chances of being found on search engines.

Internal links keep readers engaged:Your visitors will spend more time on your website than they will diverting to other sites. This reduces your site's bounce rate, which is good, just what you want to do. Internal links make your site a map with all points easily available.

This allows you to organize your website more efficiently by separating the content. Your visitors will spend more time on your website reading old posts, learn new information, and become more familiar with your site. That is what you want!



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bjdluna Premium Plus
Hi Lily,

Can you please clarify something? Are you saying that for a post of 1000 words you have 4 to 5 links going to your other related posts and 4 to 5 links coming inbound to this post from your other relevant posts? What are the 7 internal links for? Sorry, I am a little confused.

Thanks very much,

Barbara
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Aussiemuso Premium Plus
That's ok Barbara. For a 1000 word post I would put in 4 internal links to my other posts that are relevant and 2 External links to outside relevant articles.

Lily 😁🎶
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bjdluna Premium Plus
Thanks, Lily.

Barbara
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RogerMackley Premium
Hello Lily, TGIF again, that pleases me. Excellent time for the tutorial on links, that's what I've been working on the last several days, along with meta descriptions, tags. A little bit time consuming for sure, but feels like moving forward. Hope you have a wonderful weekend and much success.
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Aussiemuso Premium Plus
Hi Roger,
Yes it is time consuming but so important for your success.
Have a lovely weekend. We are in full lockdown and Covid cases are spiralling out of control in Australia. Hopefully free soon.

Warm regards,
Lily 😁🎶
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RogerMackley Premium
Sorry to hear that Lily, stay safe and keep your distance.
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Aussiemuso Premium Plus
Absolutely. We are already fully vaccinated and hunkered down doing our part. More time to write and work on my business. 😆
Stay safe my friend.

Lily 😁🎶
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emarla Premium
This has been incredibly helpful. I needed this basic understanding. Thank you so much 😊
Erlene
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Aussiemuso Premium Plus
You are very welcome Erlene.

Lily 😁🎶
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YvonneBray Premium
Great advice Lily!
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Aussiemuso Premium Plus
You are welcome Yvonne.
I always wondered how links worked from the first day I started here.

Lily 😁🎶
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YvonneBray Premium
I often read different advice on links and was never too sure who was correct. Oddly enough, I got a message saying I wasn't using enough links, internal and external. After reading your tutorial, I will be going back on my posts to check which ones need extra links.
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Aussiemuso Premium Plus
I know. It was so confusing to me too. But now I can see how it helps our readers to find connected information on our website which improves our bounce rate, and Google likes links.
Going back and adding links is a great idea and if you do a light edit while there you can ask Google to crawl it again.

Hugs
Lily 😁🎶
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YvonneBray Premium
Cool
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LawrenceDora Premium
Hey there Lily
Thank you for this great training, it really made me better understand the purpose of internal and external links.

Lawrence
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Aussiemuso Premium Plus
Perfect Lawrence.
Lily 😁🎶
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