Internal linking with Old Content

[NorbertoMM]

Hello,

I have a sports website in which users write their opinions about the sporting events that take place every day throughout the year.

Each of these sporting events generates a new page or URL indicating the match with date. For example:  www.domain.com/baseball/boston-v-yankees-04-24-2012-1234.html

The teams face several times a year, and each match creates a different URL or page.

I would like to link old pages to new pages and vice versa.

How would you recommend these pages to be linked? Linking them to each other or linking old pages to new pages that are generated or otherwise?

I would appreciate your orientation and help in this case.

Thank you.

[loopyal]

Hello Norberto, Please check your link -that one is broken Here is what I do in our newspaper Within some stories, we have links to other relevant stories or to other pages, by linking internal text. For example, there is a page about Ban Kim Moon and we link to that. If a story refers to a previous story, for example it is a story about the fighting in Syria, we might link to the story about Kofi Annan making the announcement of the ceasefire agreement. After the story ends, there might be a few links to relevant stories, that we didn't link within the story. If you use Wordpress for your site, there are some really good plugins that can help. We don't use Wordpress, so I don't remember the name, but I think the best one is called Yet Another Related Page plugin

So you could list the other pages as though they are a threaded group of related items

[ChrisDyson]

Norberto,

It would be great if you could leave a link to your site so I could see your current navigation.

You could categorise the pages based on the team therefore all pages relating to a particular team would be interlinked with one another. As Alan recommended if running WordPress a plugin such as YARRP will help to link related pages together automatically based on content, tags and categories.

But linking your pages will help to flow link juice from old to new pages and help users navigate to related stories and fixtures.