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There has been a lot of discussion lately about SEO and getting better search status on Google searches.

One of the "hints" I read here was that linking to your own articles, from within your own articles, is a good thing.  From what I reckon, it means your keywords are being used exactly how you want them to be used on a page other than the page they originate from.

Today I was doing my Weekend Reading, which I truly love to put together.  In the Weekend Reading I really like to say thanks to all the sites/bloggers who have linked to our articles over the past week (assuming I know about the links!) at the end of the article.

So I was thinking, "Hey, i'm linking to these other sites because they linked to our articles.  Why not add a brief note to each "thanks" describing which article was linked to?  And in that note, add a link to my own article."  So I did just that.

 

This likely isn't a new concept but I haven't really seen it done to much in other round ups so I thought i'd toss if out there as an idea for people to gain additional links within their own articles to some of their other articles.  Feel free to see how I did so (and see if you were included in our Reading this week!):10

Weekend Reading – Things That Matter Edition

growrichsimply said:

I saw that you had done that — and I assumed it was for this reason — and I thought it was very smart. I'll be curious to see if anyone else who is better at SEO comments to see whether it really helps or not.

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growrichsimply said:

I saw that you had done that — and I assumed it was for this reason — and I thought it was very smart. I'll be curious to see if anyone else who is better at SEO comments to see whether it really helps or not.

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Me too!  No harm no foul.  If the logic is to link to your SEO keyword links in your own site, no harm no foul.  Simply sending a link to the person who posted your link is the nice thing to do, but getting some added value for yourself seems logical even if it means a tiny bit more work.

I think it's a great move. I do that a lot as well – but never with roundups (I guess I have a new way to include my links ). Thanks

I use Automatic SEO Links to link certain phrases to certain posts.  :-)

Interesting! I have been wanting to take some time to go through posts and add internal links, so I am definitely going to check out these plugins!

interlinking is effective if done the right way.  that is why focusing on establishing a website blueprint is a key step in planning out your website.  since a blog is more fluid, interlinking between posts is recommended whenever possible for several reasons, including passing on page rank (PR Juice).  i have a post planned on why website blueprint/architecture is important and how to go about planning one…keyword research is a big component of this, which i plan on getting into in detail