Comments on: Internal Link Building Tips to Remember

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:13:52 +0000

Hi Rob,
That is so true! Many people often tend to forget about how important it is to truly build a solid brand.

Thanks for reading!
Take Care,
Nick

By: Rob Berman

Rob Berman — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:29:17 +0000

One of the projects I have undertaken is to link from blog post to blog post. It captures more audience that way and extends your brand.

Rob

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:58:51 +0000

Thanks folks for reading and sharing your thoughts!

By: Holiday Abroad

Holiday Abroad — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:47:09 +0000

Thanks for the Advice on the footer column, which we now intend to implement in order to assist our readers to navigate our site.

By: Jay Rowden

Jay Rowden — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:30:12 +0000

I love your site.
Every single article seems to give me yet more knowledge SEO related.
Now all I need is the time to implement it all….

Thank you so much Nick.
Keep up the good work!!!

Jay Rowden – Photographer

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:54:29 +0000

Hi Mark,

Thanks for reading and your comment!

Interesting point about more than 4 internal links slowing down the page load time, I have not heard of this before, but I will look into it further!

Thanks & Take Care,
Nick

By: seo wizzard

seo wizzard — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:07:52 +0000

Great post on internal linking tips, i suppose this can have a positive and negative affect in terms of SEO I think the key is not to be spammy and keep it relevant to your industry

By: Mark Demers

Mark Demers — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:59:45 +0000

My strategy is easy K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -Over complicating anything keeps your readers confused and repeating links too many times may even seem insulting and repetitive to your visitors. Keep your visitors happy by keeping your links highly visible and easy to access and most of all make them easy to understand where they go to.
Use pictures for internal linking also and add alt tags .

I have found an abundance of footer links do slow down a sites page load speed . 2-4 links seem ok though.
Have a great day.

Mark D.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:38:46 +0000

Hi Christian,
Thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts!

Exactly the key is to create your footer so it is not spammy and actually helps the visitor/user experience of your website.

By: Christian Kjær

Christian Kjær — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:32:52 +0000

great tips for internal linking. I have still som work to do on my site with the footer linking. I have also heard that it could have som negative effect if it is to spammy…

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 03:57:20 +0000

HI Jared,

Thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts!

Unfortunately, as good as Flash looks, often times it is very tough on SEO especially if it your bottom site footer – no help with your internal link building efforts there!

Thanks again & Take Care,
Nick

By: Jared

Jared — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:47:57 +0000

Thanks for the post, I am quickly learning the power of good site architecture and internal linking. I realized that our site does not footer links and our most important links in the top nav. is in flash and not being indexed! We have some work to do, so thanks for the info.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:06:08 +0000

Hi Rebecca,
Thanks for reading and your comment.

I suggest a footer navigation to help your internal link building, but not in a spammy manner. Just like in the article that you referenced, make it part of the site. The rule of thumb that I always use and recommend to our SEO clients is to create the footer to help enhance the user flow and experience on the site. This is especially true on sites that have top level and side navs. I think the search bots could see the links as spam, when they are just links with no user flow…

Thanks again for reading!
Nick

By: Rebecca L.

Rebecca L. — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:53:01 +0000

I’ve been seeing a lot of conflicting info about the value of footer links. Marc Lyne over at Search Engine Land has noted that homepage footers may even carry penalties (http://searchengineland.com/9-seo-realities-47300). It’s not the only time I’ve seen that theory discussed in the last week. It makes sense to me since in some cases, like if you have a top nav and a side nav, that footer is going to be the third instance of those links on that page, and that may look spammy to the bots.

By: JG

JG — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:05:13 +0000

imain nav has more impact than footer or sidebar navs, but yea i agree – design your landing pages and on page then think about your in bound links…

its worth looking into your out bound links too – linking to authoritative sources from your sites is indeed a good idea too.

good post thanks for the read!