Best internal linking structure?

[nicole.healthline]

We are considering implementing a site-wide contextual linking structure. Does anyone have some good guidelines / blog posts on this topic? Our site is quite (over 1 million pages), so the contextual linking would be automated, but we need to define a set of rules.

Basically, if we have a great page on 'healthy recipes,' should we make every instance of the word 'healthy recipes' link back to that page, or should we limit it to a certain number of pages?

[SanketPatel]

Hi Michelleh,

Tom Schmitz searchengineland has written awesome post on " Website Structure & interlink link ?"

http://searchengineland.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-seo-web-structure-internal-links-110994

Hope this helps you out...

[dawnieando]

Just be careful about adding 100'000's of links with the same anchors site wide.  Is there any opportunity to break down your 'healthy recipes' into different categories and subcategories to produce a silo?

[BizDetox]

Ya i would not over do it. Internal linking is for contextual use, although it plays a slight role in SEO its not the end all be all of SEO. IE is for user benefits to keep them on your page and find the right content. If you have 1 million pages, your goal should not be to rank EVERY PAGE.

I would look at Todd Malicoats AI.

He really has a vast knowledge of this

See if you can view this link some people were not able to. If interested PM i can email you the videos

http://www.marketmotive.com/training/tutorials/search-engine-optimization/seo-workshop-site-architecture-a-taxonomy-todd-malicoat-33009.html

Best wishes,

Hampig M

BizDetox