Referring subdirectory pages from 3rd hierarchy level pages. Will this hurts?

[vtmoz]

Hi all,

We have product feature pages at 3rd tier like website.com/product/features. We have the help guides for each of these features on a different subdirectory like website.com/help/guides. We are linking these help guides from every page of features. So, will it hurts us anywhere just because we are encouraging 4th tier pages in website, moreover they are from different sub-directory.

Thanks

[paints-n-design]

Could not imagine why that should be bad.

Each Product Feature is good to be explained (for the user at least). Linking between different sub-directories in general is not a problem. The only thing what could make a "Problem" is, that your guides are linked a lot better than the rest. I usually ask myselfe: Is that link useful for the user? And if the answer is yes, I care less about possible Problems. I just think twice when it is an external Link.

Additional, for internal Linking - https://moz.com/blog/should-seos-care-about-internal-links-whiteboard-friday