Internal Linking for better seo

[Rebeca1]

On our site http://villasdiani.com we have a blog called Kenya news, which is a category where we regular post articles. I am always creating external links to the category Kenya news so as it would pass juice to the posts in it and the posts have back links to category. There are no internal links among posts in the category.

As our main target is to rent beach villas and boutique hotels, each of that posts in the category Kenya news has only a link either to category with beach villas or to category with boutique hotels.

My question is, if this is good practice?, is it just not too much links going to categories to beach villas and boutique hotels form the Kenya news? 
Thank you very much for any thoughts

Iris

[trung.ngo]

Hi Iris,

Internal linking is a great idea. However, you don't want to overdo it. If you're linking to the same beach villa and hotel pages from posts in the Kenya News category too much it A) doesn't look good to users, and B) doesn't look good to search engines. The latter is especially true if you're using the same anchor text over and over again.

Also note the "first link counts" rule. Which essentially means, the first instance of the link is the one that Google will pass value through to. So the internal links within articles to pages that are already in the main navigation do not pass any value. This is also true of the anchor text. If Link A appears above Link B, and they're both point to the same page, Link A's anchor text will be the one that Google will consider.

In the end, you should really be focused on creating great articles that satisfy your consumer's needs and answers their questions. Hope that helps!

[Rebeca1]

thank you very much for this! I am already working on link changes.

All the best

Iris