Auto-link inside your own site to the same domain is white-hat?

[Pooria]

Hi,

I am using a plugin in wordpress that make auto link for some certain keywords in my site suppose:

My site is example.com

My important keyword is: sample

and across the domain example.com through out the content if there is the word: sample it is linked automatically to example.com

I like your opinion about this practice, if it may carry any kind of punishment by SEs?

Thanks.

[RyanKent]

Hi Pooria.

You are describing automatic keyword linking. It is a common and recommend practice when properly implemented. A solid example is wikipedia. Whenever a wikipedia page is created, the page name is treated as a keyword and any time it is mentioned, a link is created to that page.

Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization

Now look at the following page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_search. Notice when the term "search engine optimization" is used the term is automatically linked to the original page.

This method of link building is extremely solid and highly preferred part of good SEO practices.

[AaronSchinke]

There shouldn't be a problem since this is internal linking. Just watch out for having too many links per page.