Written on April 13th, 2009 at 08:04 pm by Darren Rowse

Interlink Your Old Blog Posts [Day 8 31DBBB]

Miscellaneous Blog Tips, Search Engine Optimization 240 comments

This post is an excerpt from the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Workbook

Today I’m presenting you with a task that is perhaps a little less involved than some of the days so far. I wanted to give you something that would both help improve your blog but that wouldn’t take too long to either learn or implement (although it is something that you could dedicate a lot of time to if you have time on your hands).

Your task today is to spend 10 minutes interlinking previously written posts in your archives.

Why is Interlinking Posts Powerful?

There are three main reasons why I regularly dedicate time to go back over old posts on my blog and find ways to update those posts with links to other posts on my blog.

1. Usefulness to Readers – my primary motivation for interlinking posts is to provide a better experience for those people who are reading those posts and to make my blog more useful. If a reader comes to my blog and finds a post that not only answers a question that they have but that also provides further reading and suggestions on where they can explore related topics – they’re more likely to go away from my site satisfied. A satisfied reader is what I’m aiming for – they are more likely to return (it makes your blog ‘sticky‘) and tell their network about their experience.

2. SEO – another great reason to interlink the posts on your blog is that search engines look at the links within a blog to both find content to index but also to work out how to index and rank content. Links from other blogs to your blog are the ultimate way to start ranking highly in Google – but internal links also count.

3. Increase Page Views – inserting links into old posts increases the chances of a visitor to your blog viewing more than just the one page. This has a couple of benefits – the first being that it can help you earn more from that visitor if you’re running some kind of CPM (cost per impression) advertising. The second reason is that you’re creating a bigger impression upon the person visiting your blog. I find that when someone views more than a single page on your blog that they’re more likely to remember it, subscribe to it, comment upon it and become a regular and loyal reader.

While these three benefits all seem fairly small when you think about the benefits that a single link might bring – if you start building the interlinking of posts into your daily blogging experience the accumulative impact that it can have on your blog will be significant.

How to Add Links to Old Posts

There are a variety of methods of interlinking posts from your archives. Here are three main ones that I use:

1. In post links – I find that this is the most natural way to add links to an old post. All it involves is making a keyword (or words) in your post into a link that points to another post on the topic of that keyword.

2. Updates – sometimes post in your archives become ‘dated’ and are in need of an update. There are a variety of ways to update an old post but one simple one is to write a new post on the same topic and then leave a link in your old one to the new post.

For example: One popular post here at ProBlogger is How to Market Your Blog in 2007. While the post still contains useful information on marketing a blog it was obviously written over two years ago. As a result I’ve added a link at this top of this post to a page on How to Find Readers for Your Blog that points people to a variety of resources on that topic.

3. Further Reading - many blogs have a ‘further reading’ section that appears at the bottom of each post. In most cases this is a list of ‘related’ posts that are automatically generated using a plugin. While this can sometimes provide readers with relevant results I find that adding manually chosen links for further reading can produce a more relevant experience. You can add these suggested links both at the end of the post and throughout the post itself.

Quick Tip: When linking between posts always try to make the words that you use in the link relevant keywords to the article you’re linking to. This will maximize the SEO benefits of the link and help you rank higher for those words in Google.

Make Interlinking Posts a Regular Task

While I’m suggesting that you set aside some time today to interlink some of your old posts – I’d also highly recommend that you build this practice into your blogging on a regular basis. I personally spend 10-15 minutes a week hunting for opportunities to do this but also find myself doing it in my daily blogging rhythm as I’m writing new posts.

As you write a new post train yourself to be thinking about what you’re written previously that relates to your new post. As you identify related content start to interlink your posts (you can add links in your new post to old content and/or add links in your old ones to your new content). If you force yourself to do this you’ll start to find that it becomes a more natural part of your daily posting.

Go Do It!

Take 10 minutes now to start identifying old posts that relate to one another and get going on adding a few links between them.

Update – Share your thoughts and progress with others over at the forum: Day 8 – Interlink Posts

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  • Jacob Duchaine

    April 13th, 2009 8:34 pm

    I’ve been meaning to get around to interlinking my posts for a while but I haven’t really had enough to work with, or the ambition to get to it.

    I guess I don’t have and reason to keep putting it off though, thanks for the tip.

  • Dominique

    April 13th, 2009 8:36 pm

    I interlink my posts in my monthly series and when my current post is on a similar topic to what i have posted

  • Barry Wright, III

    April 13th, 2009 8:36 pm

    This is a great task, and a good chance to organize and understand the content you have on your blog. Six months after my blog started, I put together a post summarizing the main categories of content on my blog, and putting links to the best articles in those categories.
    http://www.3stylelife.com/?p=717

    It really helped me understand what I was putting out there (35% fashion, 30% marketing, etc.) and allowed me to put that in one place (easily accessible from the main blog page).

    Now, I can take that information, and easily interlink related posts, either to the main summary page or to other articles on the same topic.

    A great concept that will not only help your readers, but help you understand your blog better.

    -Barry

  • Nicolas Prudhon

    April 13th, 2009 8:38 pm

    I’m doing this on all my posts and I’m glad to see that you encourage this practice!

  • HazardousPaste

    April 13th, 2009 8:41 pm

    There are some good wordpress plugins for doing this like the “Related Posts” -type plugins. Also if you write a post in two parts you’ll want to link from part one to part 2, etc.

  • Lee

    April 13th, 2009 8:47 pm

    I’ve been interlinking old posts for quite some time now and can attest to the fact that it does give a noticeable boost to page views.

    Furthermore, I have also noticed improvements in rankings on some, but not all, of the old posts that I’ve linked to from newer ones.

  • Mahesh

    April 13th, 2009 8:48 pm

    Interlinking helps in increasing page views within your site.. It works for me.. I try it regularly!

    -Mahesh.

  • Inspiero

    April 13th, 2009 8:51 pm

    Thanks Darren. i did not know that this would help in search engine optimization.

    I will really pay attention to this, because i many times publish articles in a hurry. so don’t really interlink the articles.

  • Raju

    April 13th, 2009 8:52 pm

    Thank you so much Darren. I have been doing all these without realizing the exact impact of inter-linking the posts. Most of the times it was to ensure more useful/related information to the user, but it has lots of positive side-effects as well.

    Guys, If interested, have a look at this post where I have done exactly what Darren has recommended

    http://techpp.com/2009/03/26/know-understand-secure-fix-pc-latest-conficker-worm-april-1/

  • What The Pros Do

    April 13th, 2009 8:53 pm

    This is one of those tasks that iv been meaning to get around to doing but never do so now I better get on it! I will definitely take your advice and set aside time once a week to look for opportunities to link up my posts.

    Thanks for another great challenge :)

  • Raju

    April 13th, 2009 8:54 pm

    Also, I would like to add that having a plugin like “in Series” for Wordpress, you will be able to logically link all related posts as part of the series. I am doing the same here -

    http://techpp.com/series/tv-shows-watch-online/

  • Riayn

    April 13th, 2009 8:55 pm

    This is something that I have already been doing for some time. It has been useful for linking posts in my current Goat Challenge series as well as building on some older posts.

  • Bradford Shimp

    April 13th, 2009 8:56 pm

    I have been interlinking in some of my new posts. I hadn’t considered going back and doing it with old posts, but this make so much sense. I often will write a follow up post, and taking a few minutes to go back and link to it will work nicely.

    I am going to go do this on my book review blog, Books Unwound, as well. There, I always have a coming next blurb. Now I know that I should be adding a hyperlink to that blurb when I publish the next post.

    This practice also seems like it will be a good way to revisit old posts and get new ideas and reignite some old themes.

  • Internet Business With Purpose

    April 13th, 2009 8:57 pm

    In response to your post today I’ll be adding a couple of plug ins (one of them is related posts) and a whole new page to my website – http://www.reallifepurpose.com. I ‘m also going to add some more in-post links to my articles.

    I really take seriously the advice that you give and appreciate this series.

    Thanks,
    Greg

  • Kyle

    April 13th, 2009 8:58 pm

    I have really been meaning to go back and do this, now is as good a time as any so I guess I just need to dig in and do it.

  • PoLR

    April 13th, 2009 8:59 pm

    Excellent! We did this last week so I am going to take today off from the challenge and go sit in the sun for 10 minutes instead :-)

    I really like this plugin too for doing this at the bottom of every post, it seems to work really well: Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

    Here’s an example: http://www.polr.co.uk/online-marketing/index.php/online-media-branding/

  • PoLR

    April 13th, 2009 9:00 pm

    Oh, and the other thing I did recently was fix up our author pages to get more links in which seems to be working:

    http://www.polr.co.uk/online-marketing/index.php/author/lynne/

  • Nicola Lees

    April 13th, 2009 9:01 pm

    I’ve been doing this buy splitting a long post into several and having them all interlink and by putting “If you liked this you might also like:” recommendations for further reading at the end of my posts.

    For some reason I’ve completely missed putting links to other articles within the body of posts, which is so obvious I feel a bit dumb now!

    I’ve kept my link housekeeping up to date till now, but will definitely add in-post links into my future posts.

  • Nikhil

    April 13th, 2009 9:04 pm

    I am writing a Weekly Updates Section on blog from 5 weeks. I usually put the links to older posts in the recent post so that visitors can browse all the resources on my blog. This is helpful to make loyal readership.
    You can see my recent post of this section here-
    http://tinyurl.com/cppnxg
    Also i frequently work with interlinking with sentences or words from the post.

  • `rolandinsh`

    April 13th, 2009 9:04 pm

    Interlinking (with help of 2 plugins) was last update in my blog. One is for related posts with images and second for auto-discovery words and link them to post or category.

    Example: about my sisters page StudyStart.lv http://www.rolandinsh.lv/blog/2008/12/02/studystart-bezmaksas-studiju-iespejas-danija/

  • Keith Jenkins

    April 13th, 2009 9:05 pm

    Another great tip. I applied this technique yesterday on an ongoing topic, consisting of three posts. The topic concerned the use of mobile phones in planes and the three posts are interlinked.

    http://tinyurl.com/c2qn5l

  • Home Jobs

    April 13th, 2009 9:08 pm

    Darren, What do say about using plugins like alinks which creates links automatically. I personally use windows live writer and it has the feature of auto linking for key words. This can save time and get your post connected to related posts for the keywords used

  • Kevin Sievers

    April 13th, 2009 9:12 pm

    I will do this once I get more stuff up there. As it stands, I only started a day before we started this.

    Been digging through notebooks looking for decent poems to put up more than anything else all weekend. Lots of them will be added this week.

    Thanx for all the help so far Everybody…

  • Todd Hebert

    April 13th, 2009 9:19 pm

    Darren,
    First of all, thanks so much for this 31 day class. As we go along, I find I am already doing many of the things you teach, but they are still great reminders.

    I interlink posts periodically, but I have been meaning to go through my archives and see where I can improve old posts. This challenge will give me an excuse to finally do it.

  • Ian | Quantum Learning

    April 13th, 2009 9:19 pm

    This is a great idea. It’s obvious now you suggest it … but needed you to suggest it to make it obvious.

    I tend to link to older posts when I write new content, but I’ve not thought of going back and linking older posts to newer ones.

    I’ve also been meaning to go back and add some photos to my early posts. Now might be a good time to do that too.

  • thom singer

    April 13th, 2009 9:20 pm

    You say this one is easy,– but it seems daunting. With four years worth of posts, I am not sure where to begin.

    That being said, I will go do it,…. as I am finding your tips useful and am committed to trying all you suggest for 31 days.

    http://www.thomsinger.blogspot.com

  • Pro-vamsi

    April 13th, 2009 9:20 pm

    Thanks for the article darren!!
    As a result of your previous I started Interlinking Posts from yesterday I think it will take some time to improve my rankings!!
    I am also trying to interlink my blog to few of my friends blogs as well!!
    Big THANKS for all your work!!!

  • Baker @ ManVsDebt

    April 13th, 2009 9:23 pm

    This is a fantastic idea. I always have luck referring back to old posts I have made. It’s usually very easy to do. Anytime, I talk about a topic that I’ve already wrote about I simply include a brief link.

  • Scary Mommy

    April 13th, 2009 9:35 pm

    OK. I have my links to two other bloggers up today and will link to myself tomorrow. As always, thank you!

  • Mohit

    April 13th, 2009 9:51 pm

    What have to do with posts that are unrelated to each other. Doesn’t it will look like a blunder to visitors?

    -Mohit

  • Samuel McCrohan

    April 13th, 2009 10:01 pm

    This is something I always do anyway. As my archive isn’t massive yet, it’s quite easy to remember what posts I have written on what topic.
    I am always slightly distressed when one of my best posts gets shoved off the front page and into the archives so I make a conscious effort to link back to it as much as possible in relevant, future posts.
    Another suggestion is to create a handmade ‘best of’ page that is categorised for links to your favourite posts (the usefulness of this will depend on how many categories your blog has… Mine only has three) :)
    Ta,
    Sam

  • elizof

    April 13th, 2009 10:02 pm

    This is terrific as I’ve used it a few times to connect information I posted in WordPress with a related/follow-up post in Blogger and vise versa.
    What I love about today’s exercise is that you have given me more insight into the added value/benefits of interlinking… like someone mentioned above, I had no idea about the SEO impact!
    Below is, yes, yesterday’s link as one of my examples of how I have used this task. (urgh… hint to self; need to write some new blogs).;-)
    I wrote a follow-up to my twitter experience in WordPress in March, and linked it to my original January blog about twitter in Blogger. I used the keywords “read post 1″ to link both posts.
    http://eof737.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/follow-up-i-twitter-therefore-i-am-not-a-twit-but-a-savvy-chick/
    By the way, I just went to my TweetDeck and created a shortened url for the above http://bit.ly/Exc7
    Obviously, you can tell I’m enjoying learning a ton from these assignments!
    Thank you for another great 31 Day Challenge task. I will continue to use this approach when relevant!

  • Alison

    April 13th, 2009 10:04 pm

    I’ve been meaning to do this since seeing it effectively used on other blogs, just haven’t gotten around to it. Well, I started with today’s post:

    “Today I am 3-5″ – http://newlifeasnewwife.blogspot.com/2009/04/today-i-am-3-5.html

    Now I’m on the hunt for a plugin to do an auto pull for me and implement it on both my blogs.

    Thanks!
    Alison

    http://www.newlifeasnewwife.blogspot.com
    http://www.ahotpinkpetticoat.blogspot.com

  • Girish

    April 13th, 2009 10:05 pm

    What a co-incidence , I just write an article about RED Hat Linux and dogged old post and put it there . and on the same day you write about the same technique.

    http://dotgiri.com/2009/04/13/red-hat-certified-engineer-exam-preparation-rhce-dumps-exam-questions-guide-rhce-free-resource-verify-rhce-certificate/

  • Mrs Green

    April 13th, 2009 10:06 pm

    Another great challenge Darren – just where does all your inspiration come from ?!

    I learned the hard way (from a site where people would hit on it from google searches and then not browse the site) that I needed to make it easier and more helpful for people by interlinking within the site.

    On our home page (http://littlegreenblog.com), my intention is that the block near the top which says “Easy ideas and advice – for beginners” contains a short ‘tip of the day’ style post with a link to a longer article within the site. It doesn’t always work out that way, but I think that 90% of them do at the moment.

    I’m hoping this will build some interest in the rest of the site and the tip changes on a daily basis. I also have a breadcrumb trail and a ‘readers of this page also viewed’ as well as ‘related posts’ on each article. I took my inspiration from Amazon!

    I’m definitely going to search through old archives though and spend some time on this this evening.

    Thanks again Darren – this course is amazing and I’m learning so much.

  • Cammy@TheTippyToeDiet

    April 13th, 2009 10:14 pm

    While I frequently do link internally,I didn’t know that it boosted page stats. Thanks!

    My post for today had internal links, so I think I will consider today’s assignment complete!
    (http://tippytoediet.com/2009/04/makeover-monday-happy-feet-sequel.html)

  • Coree Silvera

    April 13th, 2009 10:21 pm

    Thanks Darren,

    I’ve only written a few posts so far, but this is the best time to learn so I can begin implementing right from the start!

    You are such an inspiration and huge wealth of knowledge. Thanks for sharing all your insight with us!

    Coree

  • Lee Ka Hoong

    April 13th, 2009 10:26 pm

    I’ve done this step for all my posts in the past, it’s really useful to bring your readers to previous relevant post. It could increases your page views, and better SEO too. :)

    Regards,
    Lee

  • Sparky

    April 13th, 2009 10:26 pm

    I think you are hitting on two important things with this challenge:
    1. It’s good to cross link your old and new posts.
    2. It’s okay to go back and improve your old posts with more/ better/clearer information/pictures/links.

    Blogs are not newspapers. They are not set in stone after you hit “publish”. They are websites. They are dynamic. If you have errors you find later, correct them. If you have popular posts that can be made better. Improve them. If you can give the user a better experience on old or new posts. Do it.

    I like to use “related posts” plugins. They are a good start, but they are not enough. You have to link within the post as well.

    @Thom Singer – With four years of material it may be a daunting task. Start with your most popular posts and link to the posts you love that may not be as popular as you expect.

    Cheers!

  • Lorraine Ball

    April 13th, 2009 10:49 pm

    One of my most well read blogs was this one:
    http://www.roundpeg.biz/2008/11/my-top-50-blogs/

    It is a listing of my favorite 50 Blogs at the time. I worked on the project with a friend who created his own list. While many were the same, quite a few were different, and the result was people went back and forth to see if they were on each list.

    In a follow up post a few weeks later, i described the results with a few more links. While the second one didn’t generate as much traffic, I made a few new friends.

    http://www.roundpeg.biz/2008/12/the-best-blogs-are-connected/

    Thanks for the reminder. It is probably time to generate another list!

  • Mario

    April 13th, 2009 10:55 pm

    Found more related post than I was aware of. I see immediately the added value.

    There was just one thing I didn’t like: there were automatically pingbacks created in the comments of each post. As I don’t know how to prevent this I had to delete them all manually.

    Until tomorrow!

  • Dominique

    April 13th, 2009 11:02 pm

    This is something I’ve been making an increased effort to do at Midwest Guest for the past few months.
    One place where I really try to make an effort to do it is with a lot of my Friday posts, where I participate in a blog carnival. These posts are among the posts drawing the most traffic and comments each week–consisting of primarily a photo with a little text. Often, I’ll write a longer post on a subject and save one or two photos back from that post to use for my “Photo Friday” post…where I’ll include a link back to the longer post on the same subject in the short text with my Photo Friday post.

  • أطياف مصر

    April 13th, 2009 11:03 pm

    I did that nearly .. put links at my blog header to old posts under headline ” special posts ” thanks

  • Mystic Madness

    April 13th, 2009 11:07 pm

    Hi darren,

    Here is my interlinked post

    Does Your Dream Job Still Eludes You – Article 2 of 6

    http://www.mysticmadness.com/does-your-dream-job-still-eludes-you-article-2-of-6.html

  • Barry Wright, III

    April 13th, 2009 11:09 pm

    You know, one of the best things about this challenge is that it both teaches new people basic techniques for improving their blog, and it forces advanced bloggers to actually sit down and do them for once.

  • Deb Owen

    April 13th, 2009 11:24 pm

    This is such a great reminder! I’ve been blogging for years but — sometimes forget to do this. Like today. I forgot today. (Until I came over here. ;-) )

    All the best!
    deb

  • Sharon Hurley Hall

    April 13th, 2009 11:27 pm

    I actually used this in the post I did for the first day of the challenge, linking to ten previous posts and it’s something I do from time to time, after reading the tip the last time you ran this exercise. For today, I have written a post on promotion, linking to some of my best content on this topic.http://getpaidtowriteonline.com/top-tips-on-promotion/

  • Mouseclone

    April 13th, 2009 11:44 pm

    I have been doing daily write ups on my thoughts about the 31DBBB. It has been an experience. You can find they thoughts on this post @ http://mouseclone.com/2009/31dbbb/31dbbb-no8-innerlinks

    please let me know what you think.

  • John

    April 13th, 2009 11:49 pm

    This is something I do in every post. I always see a large jump in page views when I link to older posts. Also linking to related posts at the bottom of the page is the best way to engage readers and bring them to other pages on your blog.

    When I am doing a series of posts, I link the older posts in the beginning of the latest post. I recently did this during my “Photo Studio Review” series and looking at my stats, I notice that readers almost always click and read the other posts in the series.

    Here is the post:
    http://www.modernparent.org/2009/02/review-picture-people/

  • Lisa

    April 14th, 2009 12:01 am

    Darren, this is a very powerful lesson you’re shred with us today. And you demonstrate this so well on your own blog. Since I first found your blog, I started doing this on my own site for the reasons that you stated. It does make your blog sticky. I did in fact subscribe because I wanted to soak up everything and there was so much to get. Since I’ve started doing this, I’ve noticed that people are reading those older posts that I’ve placed links to and leaving comments. Today I’m going to go back through my old posts and find ways to link some keywords to other posts. Thanks for today’s tip, because while I started this practice recently, I didn’t think to go back and update the older posts with newer links. Genius!

    HREF=”http://lotusessence.com.”>Lotus Essence

  • Nicole Rodriguez

    April 14th, 2009 12:05 am

    This is such a great idea! I’ve seen it on other sites (usually as a plug-in), but I like the idea of personally picking out relevant posts. This is definitely going to be a part of each post!

  • The Scrub

    April 14th, 2009 12:07 am

    I started doing this about a week before the 31 day challenge began, and I can tell everyone reading this that interlinking your old posts is one of the BEST things you can do to increase page views. I saw a huge jump in page views the same day I started doing this, and the average time spent on my site has increased substantially as well.

    Another great tip Darren!

  • Make Money Online

    April 14th, 2009 12:08 am

    We should make sure to do target blank in order to make the post open in new window :)

  • Karenne Sylvester

    April 14th, 2009 12:08 am

    Great tip Darren,

    I also made this a part of my side bar – “your favorites” “my favorites” “on topic” etc.

    Thanks,

    Karenne

  • Sam

    April 14th, 2009 12:10 am

    Ketih, saw your comment about using mobile phones on plane. Great topic. In the next day or two I’m going to write a post about your post, and hopefully give you some link love!

    Sam
    http://trendycellular.com/blog

    twitter: sambuzin AND trendycellular

  • BenSpark

    April 14th, 2009 12:12 am

    This is a great tip, it is part of my regular blogging regimen. I also use the Ninja Affiliate plug in to do some of that internal linking automatically.

  • lindy

    April 14th, 2009 12:12 am

    My stats for last week are final:

    last week: 648!
    previous week:67
    week 13: 138
    week 12: 138

    Well, to me this is amazing! What a jump from the previous four weeks. I hope everyone else is having this much success. I know to some 648 visits in a small drop in the bucket but to me it is HUGE!

    I so look forward to staying in and completing this 31 day challenge.

  • alone

    April 14th, 2009 12:19 am

    yeah. interlinking is one of the powerful technique that you should try =)

  • Christine Eaton

    April 14th, 2009 12:24 am

    I was thrilled to see this post this morning. Having a new blog I took the opportunity to link all but one of my posts to other posts currently up and running.

    Because I could not work the link into each post, I entered a “further reading” at the end of each post and linked each relevant post before it.

    I will be certain to practice this with every possible opportunity.

  • Raymond

    April 14th, 2009 12:27 am

    Hey Darren,
    Everything has been very interesting and learnful so far.
    I had the interlinking on my mind since I noticed it on someone’s site yesterday evening!! but it’s a good idea to think about it while you are writing, thanks man!

  • Aidil TipsGoda

    April 14th, 2009 12:33 am

    i personally as a net surfer likes it when i have something else to read that a related to the topic of the original post. and i think if you do it manually, it will become a lot more relevant to the subject.

    you know sometimes ‘related’ plugins shows you random posts.

    after reading this, i head on to my latest post today and add in 3 more interlinks to older post that are related and guess what, it does look more ‘professional’ and comprenhesive. heres what i mean in my post :

    Coming Back From The First Date. Whats Your Next Step?
    http://www.tipsgoda.com/2009/04/coming-back-from-first-datewhats-your.html

  • Musings of a Housewife

    April 14th, 2009 12:42 am

    Interesting! This is something I rarely do. I’m looking forward to this task.

  • Tanya

    April 14th, 2009 12:53 am

    I interlink regularly, and use this time to update older posts if necessary. Great tip!

  • Kayla

    April 14th, 2009 1:00 am

    I’ve just started doing this in recent posts, but only sometimes. I’ve gone back and added a few more, this time thinking more proactively about it. I also found from this that some of my past articles are not of top quality. It’s too be expected since their from awhile back, but I believe I just found another great benefit of interlinking posts.

  • Tobias

    April 14th, 2009 1:00 am

    Done. I was wondering, though: is there a minimum length for posts where you want to do this?

  • Palma | Buddha Trance

    April 14th, 2009 1:18 am

    Darren, I just happened to interlink in today’s post. I do it whenever I can think of a related post. But I did not think of going back to the older post and add the newer ones, as they are being created… Thank you!

  • SiSi

    April 14th, 2009 1:21 am

    Great tips today Darren, I’ve been doing this through my blogs, it helps my readers look through other topics easily. Thanks for sharing this!

  • Emily Geizer

    April 14th, 2009 1:28 am

    Yes, I did this a few weeks ago after I had noticed Darren’s practice of this on ProBlogger. I’m glad to better understand the rhyme and reason to it now.

    I write a parent education blog. New tagline: raising better parents and happier kids. The series that I interlinked was on preparing your house for a child — some call it baby-proofing.

    You can find the series here.

  • ITrush

    April 14th, 2009 1:30 am

    I think no. 1 is the best way of interlinking older post.. it should come natural in the eyes of the reader so they’ll be encourage to click on that link.

  • katy

    April 14th, 2009 1:30 am

    I forget to interlink because I don’t remember what I’ve written in the past, especially if it’s been over a year. Do you search your own site to find the relevant posts to interlink to?

  • Alison Kerr, Earthonaut

    April 14th, 2009 1:45 am

    This challenge I liked – easy peasy! I started doing this a while back to try and keep people reading on my blog, rather than just leaving after reading one post. I’d no conception that it might help with SEO/ranking. Double benefit!

    I can’t seem to get list posts out of my head, so here’s my post for today’s challenge, another list:
    Observing Nature Through a Window

    I followed another blogger from the comments here yesterday and found she’d written about teaching kids to be green, which is what my whole blog relates to, so I went over today and left a comment and a link to today’s post.

    So far my favorite thing of the challenge is the relationships I’m growing with other bloggers :-)

  • Jacky

    April 14th, 2009 1:51 am

    I do interlink my posts on a regularly basis. It became part of my writing and I think it improves the on-blog-experience of my readers. So far I do only have one problem: Only new posts link back to old posts.

    When I lately was surfing through my own blog I farely often realized: “Hi, I wrote about that lately”, but there was no link, because the current post was older than the one that was dedicatet to the I-wrote-about-it topic.

    Any tips or hints? Darre, how do you handle that?

    Cheers
    Jacky ;)

  • delicate flower

    April 14th, 2009 1:55 am

    great task, and timely. I”ve been trying, to no avail, to figure out to do the link and have it appear as a keyword,not the whole http:// …. address, like Alison Kerr, post right above this, has done. I can’t figure it out and haven’t figured out to post the right question to Wordpress to get help.
    Maybe someone here can help me?

  • ChristyZ

    April 14th, 2009 2:05 am

    This is excellent advice! I’ve only just begun to go back into old posts and do this and already I’ve increased pageviews, increased Adsense earnings, and by adding Amazon affiliate links into old posts I’ve increased referral earnings as well.

    Thanks for offering this program Darren it’s truly fantastic!

  • jams

    April 14th, 2009 2:18 am

    I do this quite a lot all the time and it certainly does show in the statistics.

  • Kaye - SandwichINK

    April 14th, 2009 2:23 am

    What a great idea! I had not thought to do that before. I went in and found one of my original posts on fun things to do with grandkids, added a link to a later post about outside games to play with grandkids, and voila – http://www.sandwichink.com/grandparenting-fun . While I was there, I tidied up the links a bit so you can directly link and made one other correction. A very fruitful 10 minutes. Thank you so much, Darren, for all these great tips! :)

  • Amy @ parkcitygirl

    April 14th, 2009 2:24 am

    Great post! I have done a bit of this off and on mostly referring to previous projects. And had been using linkwithin for a while but it slowed down the page load too much – now I need to do it manually. I’ve also been thinking about a best of for my sidebar. . .

    I had a huge idea over the weekend, I’m hosting a Bloggers Quilt Festival beginning this Friday. I have sponsors to giveaway prizes and I’m really excited about the traffic it will generate :)

  • Tamikka

    April 14th, 2009 2:28 am

    This challenge has made me so happy. I have actually kept up with each day’s task. Most challenges, I get started and fall off the wagon at some point. This is the first time that I’ve been a part of a blog-growth challenge and already see benefits to my posts, blog and energy within the blog. It feels great to know that the effort given to this challenge is showing up in the results already. Yay!

    I love to link back to older posts. Like @Sparky said, you can always use this opportunity to fix, elaborate or change your previous message. So great.

  • Joe Alban, L.Ac.

    April 14th, 2009 2:29 am

    I have been trying to do this for a while, and as Darren suggests, I think it really pays off.

    Last week I wrote about acupuncture and allergies, and highlighted some acupressure point, that I have previously written on, which are good for allergies. Those pages jumped to my most visited by the end of the week.

    Here’s the post, http://albanacupuncture.com/blog/?p=351.

    And thanks for all your work Darren, falling behind but loving the 31BBB.

  • Kevin

    April 14th, 2009 2:33 am

    My blog is quite new and there’s not a lot of cross reference to, but I will bear this in mind when I have a few more postings up.

    Also, catching up on other tasks and some of the tips in the recommended blogs were excellent, a true motherlode of 24 carat wisdom. Again, many than ks for sharing Darren.

    http://kevincumbria.wordpress.com

  • PunditMom

    April 14th, 2009 2:47 am

    I try to do this as often as I can. Since I write about politics, especially as they impact mothers and women, there are often evergreen types of topics I write about and link back and update! But this is also a good tip for me to remember when I’m having a dry idea day!

  • Gunnar

    April 14th, 2009 2:49 am

    Thanks for the tip Darren. On my triathlon blog I’m trying to apply this method already. Hope it’s going to work.
    I’ve started my blog for about one month ago. At the moment I ask myself how long it’s really going to take before I get some traffic on it. Don’t really understand how people are going to find it anyway… if I search for it in Google, I can’t find it myself ;)

    Time will tell…

  • Electra

    April 14th, 2009 2:50 am

    I’m behind everybody, but I wrote my elevator speech for Electra’s Rough Draft today. Later today, I will post to a few of my blogs, including Electra’s Rough Draft, reccommending the 31 days to a better blog. Looking forward to the next 30!

  • Robin

    April 14th, 2009 2:50 am

    I have pretty good internal linking in my site. I added the smartlinks plug-in a few weeks ago, but it is not that efficient. I still have to do 90% of my links manually.

    Since I have allotted some time for workng on the challenge today, I will go back through my pages and see if I’ve missed any good opportunites. It will also give me some time to check out some more of the sites on here ;)

  • Heidi Richards Mooney

    April 14th, 2009 2:56 am

    Darren,

    Great tip (who am I kidding, they all are!) I have been doing this sporadically since I started blogging and can attest to the power of interlinking. You just reminded me that I need to go back and see where other opportunities lie in doing more of the same.

    Thanks so much,

    Heidi Richards Mooney

  • Bob

    April 14th, 2009 2:56 am

    My last post had a linkback. :) But, I don’t think I have enough total posts for this task yet. I see the importance and will keep it in mind.

  • Tommy

    April 14th, 2009 3:03 am

    I did this last week during one of the other challenges for a couple of posts on my blog. I will go back today, after writing the link post for yesterday, and finish interlinking my posts. I shall return!

  • Susan

    April 14th, 2009 3:08 am

    It definitely takes time, but it’s a worthy task to add to publishing posts. Interlinking and have a related posts section really does aid in page views :)

  • Bumbles

    April 14th, 2009 3:10 am

    I had actually already done this in my post for today so am happy that this task is already a done deal. I like to self-link because it introduces readers to other portions of our blog that hopefully will retain their interest and encourage further exploration. Our blog covers a variety of interests so I like to introduce people to related yet very different topics in the same post that they might not otherwise have gone looking for.

  • Destination Infinity

    April 14th, 2009 3:10 am

    That is a good piece of information. What I have done in my blog is to create a category (eg. Music) and am trying to give that link to readers who may be interested in further reading from archives as that section will have all the posts i did under that topic. I will also try to directly interlink some of my older posts, as you suggest. Thanks for your suggestion.

    Destination Infinity

  • Jason@internetmarketing

    April 14th, 2009 3:26 am

    Thanks for the reminder, I guess I needed to spend more time on this. I didnt know that this would help in SEO ranking. That was really helpful for me.

  • Lorraine Ball

    April 14th, 2009 3:29 am

    One of the tools we use is a “word press related link” plug in.

    http://fairyfish.net/2007/09/12/wordpress-23-related-posts-plugin/

    It automatically generates a list of related posts based on the tags I use. Since installing it last fall, i have seen a nice increase in the number of page views.

    But the list is at the bottom of the the post titled: More on this Topic I am going to go back and look for ways to do that in the text.

    Is one technique more effective then the other?

  • Visalittleboy

    April 14th, 2009 3:44 am

    Hi Teacher Darren,

    I’m now your student for 8 days and will be more days to go.
    Well, congratulation to me too for understanding more about all tips realted to blogging.

    Your teaching is really helpful to me as i’m now a newbie with blogging.
    Even my English is still poor, but I’ll still try my best to read your lessons more on your 31DBBB…

    Honestly, from bottom of my heart, thank you Teacher Darren!

  • Emily Geizer

    April 14th, 2009 3:46 am

    My post today, The Right Speed of Parenting combined the last two assignments (linking out and in). I’m looking forward to those big hit numbers!!!

  • Craft A Craft

    April 14th, 2009 3:48 am

    I link back and forth a good bit, just kind of “ad hoc” stuff. May have to try explicitly making a list of links (combining a list post and interlinking).

    I do have good luck with an automatic “related links” box I’ve got.

    One other issue… I use the “pingback” module in Drupal to ping other blogs and if I link to my own posts, I wind up with pingbacks to myself, which is a bit annoying.

    Bruce

  • Bridget Casas

    April 14th, 2009 3:50 am

    A few days I did a post with a new photograph and said this was a new one in my “series.” This is now the perfect opportunity to go through my photos and link some of these “series” together! I had already thought about doing this and now it has been confirmed that is is a good idea.

    Thank you.

  • darya

    April 14th, 2009 3:59 am

    I interlink regularly and find it has a tremendous impact on the stickiness of my blog. It is not unusual for my readers to click through 15-20 pages and articles before leaving. It is also tremendously powerful for SEO, and can be especially useful to young blogs with a lot of quality content.

  • Evelyn

    April 14th, 2009 4:04 am

    I am new to blogging and found this exercise very helpful. I did the assignment and used a few posts that were related to the current post for today.

    http://eves-journey.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-your-own-raw-food-experience.html

    Thanks for the great tips!

  • Amy Warden

    April 14th, 2009 4:04 am

    I have a wordpress blog (not sure if this matters), but when I interlink my posts, then I get pingbacks. Do I approve them or delete them? Will they serve a purpose, or just clutter up my comments section?

  • Michael Grills

    April 14th, 2009 4:05 am

    And Done!

    If you go to mine and see the latest painting you will see the links below.

    Is this a good way to do it?

  • Dee Wilcox

    April 14th, 2009 4:10 am

    I linked to an old post in my blog today. Several months back, I wrote about the social aspects of innovation and referenced Malcolm Gladwell’s definition of Connectors, Mavens, and Salesmen. Today I wrote about the value of connecting with a Maven and linked back to the original post for more info.

    I wasn’t sure how else to apply this task until i read through the comments. I plan to go back tonight and link up the series I have written. Ironic as it is, finding similar themes and connections between posts will definitely help me understand my own blog better.

    Thanks, Darren!

  • Lynn

    April 14th, 2009 4:16 am

    Thank you — I link in new posts, but never thought to go back and do it for old posts, and didn’t realize that it would help search engine optimization. I also often use “here” as the link word, rather than a good keyword, so that was a good tip.
    Lynn at Chronicle of an Infant Bibliophile
    http://infantbibliophile.blogspot.com

  • rachella Sinclair

    April 14th, 2009 4:18 am

    Hello- Do labels count as interlinking? I’ve also got a widget that shows thumbnails from related posts at the bottom of every post. Does that count?

  • Christine Steinmann

    April 14th, 2009 4:48 am

    Totally new idea for me – thanks. Will need to work also on linking at a future date – April is a horrid month for me to be taking a course but I’m checking in daily to do the best I can. DId get a chance to check in on Scary Mommy’s blog – impressive what she has had a chance to build up with 3 small children at home. Am slowly working on building up those connections through links and just through reading other blogs. The writing is easy, but the blogging is a full-time commitment.

  • Sundi D. Hayes

    April 14th, 2009 4:53 am

    Yeah! I’m super excited about this one because I’m already doing it. It is almost like getting a day off! I first started linking to my own posts because several of the blogs I read do it. Now I understand WHY! Thanks.

    Create an amazing day!

  • Jennifer Escalona

    April 14th, 2009 5:21 am

    Darren,

    Thanks for this exercise. It’s simple, but it once again reinforced something I’m coming to realize – I’m great at promoting others, but way too humble about promoting myself. My blog is chock full of posts linking to other brilliant writers on my topic (freelance writing), but not nearly full enough of links back to my own good information. Again, thanks for setting this task. I think it will help immensely.

  • Jarlin

    April 14th, 2009 5:25 am

    Yes, this is working well.

    - Jarlin Paul

    http://www.jarlinpaul.com/

  • Claudia Meydrech

    April 14th, 2009 5:43 am

    Today my Yorkie, Aspen, posted to her blog, and tried her paw at some “old-post interlinking” >:-)<

    http://www.aspentheyorkie.com/everyones-talking-about-bo-obama/

    Thanks for this lesson, looking forward to catching up on the weekend lessons, we were away celebrating our Anniversary and Easter.

    Claudia

    Twitter – http://twitter.com/happynutrition

  • L.J.T.

    April 14th, 2009 5:47 am

    I have several old posts which get a lot of hits, maybe 50% of my traffic at certain times of the year. I have thought about updating them, but this gives me the idea of writing a new post and linking back to the old one.

  • TheDutchSchoolKid

    April 14th, 2009 5:59 am

    It is so obvious, but I don’t do it enough.
    Now I updated some pages, especially with ‘further reading.’
    That’s great!

    Thanks.

    Stefan/DSK

  • Bettina

    April 14th, 2009 6:04 am

    I added a blog archive to my main page and the blog is drirectly linked to my twitter page and pwersonal webaite. I am working on adding more links and interconnections.
    http://bettinasettlesrealty.com/Blogspot.htm

  • Bruce > The Hockey Writers

    April 14th, 2009 6:12 am

    Another great tip – will you run out before we get to 30?

    I used to do this here and there. The issue, as you said, is to get it into your blogging rhytym. I’m going to set a mini-goal to do two a night. If after a few weeks this works well then I’ll nudge it up to 3.

    Our sites has 4 to 8 new posts a day so it shouldn’t be to tough.

    I also use Related Posts plugin and love it. Not sure on the exact amount of links though. I think we’re at 6 and I’m worried about overkill. Noticed Darren has 5, what to do – what to do ??

  • Itchy Skin Rash

    April 14th, 2009 6:13 am

    I am glad you posted this as I am highly resistant to it. YET, you are right. It takes 10 minutes. I always figured that each of my category pages is a bit of a sitemap and they link to front page, but you are right!

    Deb

  • bantingboy

    April 14th, 2009 6:14 am

    increasing page view. I like this. Hoho..

  • PShankar

    April 14th, 2009 6:18 am

    I just get started with my blog. But I am planning to revisit my posts every month and interlink them.

    Is interlinking between your own blogs OK? Do serach engine consider them as overlinking?

  • The Style PA

    April 14th, 2009 6:28 am

    I manually find 3 posts to add to the bottom of every new post I write. I found that this has directly impacted on my page views. People do use these extra links as a way to navigate through your site.

    I might now set aside some time to go back through old posts, updating them and adding a related links section.

  • Kelly

    April 14th, 2009 6:38 am

    Great post, Darren!
    I love that this is a bite sized thing you can do in a very short amount of time, that will have a big impact.

    I did this with my morning post before I read this! You can see it here: http://www.thecentsiblelife.com/2009/04/13/your-credit-score-more-important-than-ever/

    I added links in the text as well as at the bottom of the post.

    I’ll have to go back to my older posts and update them.

    Keep the great stuff coming!

  • Todd

    April 14th, 2009 7:08 am

    I love it when people can just get lost in my content. Although it does drive me nuts over at CopyBlogger when every post links you to five new ones. It makes it impossible to get through things! But there are a lot of great posts there.

  • Sami - Life, Laughs & Lemmings

    April 14th, 2009 7:29 am

    Just so you know, without even thinking about it, I clicked through to your “Sticky” article via the link in this post ;)

  • Carol

    April 14th, 2009 7:31 am

    I’ve been inserting links but didn’t know how to get them to open in a separate window. Today I figured it out, and spent over an hour fixing the links so they don’t take people away from the original post they were reading. This way my blog is still there even if they click a link to another site.

  • Miss Cal.Q.L8

    April 14th, 2009 7:52 am

    I’ve already been doing this but it is also easy to do if you’re writing a series or even a series of list posts!

    I also think it’s a good idea to go back to old posts and try to incorporate pictures or link to videos.

    http://misscalculate.blogspot.com/2009/04/serial-success-6-more-strategies.html

    http://misscalculate.blogspot.com/2009/04/serial-success-final-6.html

  • LoneWolf

    April 14th, 2009 8:17 am

    I found linking back to existing articles was simply a natural thing for me, but going back to the old articles and linking forward was new for me (other than series posts).

  • Matt Cheuvront

    April 14th, 2009 8:26 am

    Great advice. Always link to your other related posts as much as possible. This gets easier as time goes on and you have more content to link to. Also, for Wordpress users, download the ’similar posts’ plugin. It’s THE best way to encourage discussion on old posts that otherwise may not get noticed.

    http://www.lifewithoutpants.com

  • Dragos Roua

    April 14th, 2009 8:43 am

    Well, applied this lesson to my today’s post. Here it is:

    http://www.edragonu.ro/the-anatomy-of-a-blog-post/

    I’m enjoying this challenge :-)

  • Dragos Roua

    April 14th, 2009 8:43 am

    Well, applied this lesson to my today’s post. Here it is:

    The Anatomy Of A Blog Post

    I’m enjoying this challenge :-)

  • VlogHog

    April 14th, 2009 8:55 am

    I’ve been doing this lately and can’t wait too see if increases Google search.

    Nearly every successful blogger says to interlink posts. There must be something to it.

  • Natalie Green

    April 14th, 2009 8:55 am

    I’m finding other people’s comments almost as helpful as your excellent guidance Darren.

    I like the idea of using this exercise to also do an inventory of past content for a snap shot of what’s been covered, unobvious repeating themes (not to mention the SEO benefits).

  • Laura Simmons

    April 14th, 2009 8:56 am

    geez, I just received the email 40 minutes ago and already there are 120 comments.

    Can anyone let me know how you get and give links to a specific post. I guess if it’s you own you can copy and paste your permalink.

    But what if it’s to someone else’s blog or you are sharing it on a social site that only allows urls. I am not sure if a permalink is the same as a url.

    Sorry I hope my confusion didn’t confuse anyone else.

  • Elena

    April 14th, 2009 9:09 am

    This is a wonderful post. However, if you’re a newcomer like me, you may just want to put this advice in your use for later file folder. It’s so true though. Hopefully, I’ll be able to update my blog sooner rather than later.

  • desiree fawn

    April 14th, 2009 9:13 am

    I love this tip & I try to do it with almost every post. I’m always referring to past articles, tying things together and such.
    Great way to get some flow in your blog!

  • Darran

    April 14th, 2009 9:21 am

    I love using interlinked post to tell some background information. There could be a reason why I have a particular stance on something, but my readers wouldn’t know that. It helps a great deal on their part.

    This is my post on the Nikon f/1.4g.
    http://limetouch.com/archives/nikkor-50mm-f14g/

    Interlinked in it was my dilemma on which particular lens I wanted to get.

  • Larrie Campbell

    April 14th, 2009 9:39 am

    I also used this assignment to go back and review all of my blog entries since moving to my current blog URL. It was a great review and then I made my own top 10 favorite blog entries list.

  • Anne Maybus

    April 14th, 2009 9:58 am

    Thank you. I have completed the assignment. My current blog is a merge of two similar ones so it was good to blend them together this way.

    I went for the recipe option as they were scattered throughout so this is a great way to tie a few together. http://cherrymag.com.au/wordpress/?p=1152

  • Ani Long

    April 14th, 2009 10:08 am

    I have a page that shows examples of what my blog’s purpose. I have just updated it to more recent posts (usually the con reports).

    Here’s the page:
    http://ani-long.freehostia.com/wordpress/?page_id=2

  • Andrew Bennett

    April 14th, 2009 10:34 am

    Great point. I frequently do ’series posts’ that link to each other, but the exercise made me realize that including more links to further reading in each post will keep people around longer. Here’s an example–

    http://blog.deneki.com/2009/04/sage-8134-4-z-axis.html

    Andrew

  • Kevin Cline

    April 14th, 2009 10:36 am

    I’m trying to interlink, but I don’t yet have enough posts to really make it worth it. i do understand the principle behind it and how to do it. I will be sure to do it in the future.

  • SINgleGIRL

    April 14th, 2009 12:22 pm

    As my blog is, in some ways, a series of vignettes or a continuing story this is a strategy I use quite often. Kind of like a flashback. Today’s:
    The Sound of Ugly
    http://www.sex-lies-dating.com/3032900

  • Catherine

    April 14th, 2009 12:27 pm

    Thanks for the reminder Darren. I’m covering part of the riots in Bangkok and I could use some interlinking.

  • Derek Heck

    April 14th, 2009 12:47 pm

    This strategy has worked very well for me, although I often foget to do this properly.

    Where has everyone had the most luck, in text or a link at the end of your posts?

  • Gordon

    April 14th, 2009 1:27 pm

    I use WordPress and there are many plugins can do such things.
    A good related post plugin or something like that will save a lot of time.

  • Eric

    April 14th, 2009 1:36 pm

    This worked out perfect for today’s assignment. I fell behind due to the holiday weekend but found a perfect article to link back to yesterday. In the process of adding my 2 cents to Her article I was able to perfectly link back in one of my top posts.

    Thx

  • Michael

    April 14th, 2009 1:38 pm

    I loved this post! I went back and started linking my recent posts together that were related. I realized that it will not only help out my readers, but it will keep them on my site longer. That’s a good thing! I am wondering what to do about cleaning up the categories in my blog. Does anyone have some tips relating to that?

  • Clara Mathews

    April 14th, 2009 1:48 pm

    Phewww! I am finally caught up with the rest of the class!

    This assignment works very well for my chick flicks movie blog. Each week I do a New On DVD post. I went back and interlinked the DVD titles with previous posts about the movie or the starring actor.
    http://justchickflicks.com/2009/04/07/new-on-dvd-more-oscar-winning-performances/

    I also did double duty on the Day 2 assignment. I interlinked some of the items on my list of 15 Great Chick Flick Characters: http://justchickflicks.com/2009/04/09/15-great-chick-flicks-characters/

  • Fernanda Beccaglia

    April 14th, 2009 1:52 pm

    Hi!

    I have a question about all this linking we have been doing these past two or three days. How much is too much linking?

    Thanks!

    Fernanda

  • CGabriel

    April 14th, 2009 1:57 pm

    Hey Darren, ok this was pretty cool – I had published a post (with video) early this morning (April 13) that linked three internal pages before I read today’s challenge.

    Without realizing the value until recently, I’ve made liberal use of linking previous posts at Blog Harbor. And thinking about it now, it makes perfect sense.

    This is one of those little gems that served as a great reminder of why interlinking is valuable.

  • Meredith

    April 14th, 2009 2:11 pm

    I haven’t written too many posts as of yet, so I connected a bunch of the few that I have, added some other stuff, and came up with a sort-of intro to me:

    http://meredithelaine.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/i-have-no-idea-why-people-even-like-me/

  • Andi

    April 14th, 2009 2:25 pm

    Another good tip, this one I practice and wish more people would too: http://budurl.com/v2js

  • Jendi

    April 14th, 2009 2:26 pm

    I find that it’s easy to add as I write a new post. I definitely need to go back and link in the old ones. At that time I didn’t have content available to link too.

  • BizMind

    April 14th, 2009 3:19 pm

    I’m doing interlinking my blog post before but I forgot to do it for the fast months. This post is an encouraging one. I will do my interlinking works again.

  • venkat

    April 14th, 2009 3:35 pm

    Interlinking to post in a blog can defintely increase pageviews for old posts as well as readers stay a longer time reading old articles as well.

  • niceguyted

    April 14th, 2009 3:50 pm

    This is a total cop-out on my part, but what the heck, that’s what I get for burning it at both ends. “There is no candle” as we like to say: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/04/13/interlink-your-old-blog-posts/

  • niceguyted

    April 14th, 2009 3:50 pm

    This is a total cop-out on my part, but what the heck, that’s what I get for burning it at both ends. “There is no candle” as we like to say: http://www.quixoticjedi.com/2009/04/14/day-8-31dbbb/

  • Rose from FineCraftGuild dot com

    April 14th, 2009 3:56 pm

    Darren

    How about continuing the remainder of the 30 day challenge
    leaving one or two CATCH UP days in between each ‘challenge’ day??

    For many of us this is not the only project going on in our lives
    and IT SURE WOULD BE MORE FUN to actually have toe time to

  • Michael Godawski

    April 14th, 2009 4:40 pm

    Darren, first thing I do today is interlinking.

    Quite surprising first activity of the day.

  • Robert Bravery

    April 14th, 2009 5:22 pm

    The problem with getting these updates and challenges, is that I am like 8 hours behind. Here in SA, while I am sleeping you guys in AUS are awake. But one consolation is that we did win the ODI series.

    Anyway enough of that, I knew that internal linking was helpful in many ways, but never thought that I should go back to previous blog posts and put in some internal links.

    I have been doing a series on CSS. This is a prime candidate for internal links, as I have built up about 6 posts so far, with many more to come. I can go back and links to reference the other posts as well.

    The benefit of this is that it puts the other posts into perspective and context.

    Great reminder Darren

    BTW if any one is interested the first CSS tutorial is at http://www.integralwebsolutions.co.za/Blog/EntryId/137/Cascading-Style-Sheets-CSS-I-The-Basics.aspx

    To find the rest just do a search on the blog for “Cascading Style Sheets”, and a list will be presented. The search is on the left on the blog home page at http://www.integralwebsolutions.co.za/Blog.aspx

    Thanks

  • Mary / GoodlifeZEN

    April 14th, 2009 6:05 pm

    I’ve done my 10 minutes interlinking. The strategy I followed was to identify my post popular posts (WP Plugin: Popularity) and add a few links to posts at the end of the article.

    When I have my next interlinking moments, I’ll do some in-text links as well.

    Great course! It’s hard to keep on top but I’m loving it :-)

  • Josh Moore

    April 14th, 2009 7:30 pm

    Thanks Darren.

    I did this a few weeks a go with my ‘Wealth Pillar Series’. As a fairly new blogger one thing I have been doing is analysing the way that other bloggers have built their sites, and linking to other posts was something prominent I picked up on.

    As I continue to increase the number of posts I write, I will continue to focus on linking posts to and from each other.

    I also read a point recently on a friend’s blog where he stated that having a list of your recent posts in the sidebar is also a good idea, as a new reader may not access your blog through the home page. A good thought that I am planning to implement.

    All the best to all the bloggers here!

    JM

  • Paula Eder

    April 14th, 2009 8:07 pm

    Thanks – this was a great exercise. I regularly do a monthly retrospective of the 5 top posts for the previous month (all interlinked) – but doing this more frequently helps. I am glad to know that it also hs an impact on SEO! Here’s what I wrote today (also links to another blog – per your advie!): http://thetimefinder.com/find-time-to-clarify-your-time-priorities-by-clarifying-what-you-value/

  • Free Webmaster Tools

    April 14th, 2009 8:14 pm

    Very interesting post , I never think about this fact , I am confident that it will help to make loyal readers

  • gabybali

    April 14th, 2009 8:19 pm

    I just updated 3 posts of mine with the related post links on the bottom of each post, but seems like I have to deactivate the “related post’ plugins so that it’s not conflicted with this update, because I can’t seem to control which post should be related to the new post.

    If you have time, please read these posts :

    - This never happened before :
    http://www.beeamazing.com/this-never-happened-before/
    - Add me on your Facebook,please! :
    http://www.beeamazing.com/add-me-on-your-facebookpls/
    - Nyepi Day – Like & Dislike :
    http://www.beeamazing.com/nyepi-day-like-dislike/

    some other posts have already been using this method. And I will write a new post with internal links today.

    Terima kasih, Darren!

  • Rakesh Kumar

    April 14th, 2009 8:39 pm

    This is very useful tip for me as my blog is very young. I must keep this tip in my mind and should be able to spend few hours every week to achieve interlinking technique for myself.

    Thanks Darren. I am learning everyday new and amazing techniques.

  • Dean Saliba

    April 14th, 2009 10:06 pm

    I’ve started interlinking and I find it means that older posts are getting more exposure now.

    I’m really enjoying this. Even if I am finding some of the posts a little hard to follow. :)

  • roguepuppet

    April 14th, 2009 10:11 pm

    Interlinking is an old habit of mine and one I always appreciate when other folks take time to do. I tend to do this not as a “topic summary” across many topics, but just referencing older posts to keep from repeating myself. This way, regular readers can skip the link, they already read it, and new readers can get caught up on the history of my thinking. In my post this morning about pervasive social networks, (http://roguepuppet.blogspot.com/2009/04/breathing-in-social-networks.html) I had a chance to do this and to link to some external blogs. Thanks for the continuing series..

  • Web Trainings

    April 14th, 2009 10:38 pm

    Thanks for such a nice and useful post

  • Ryan Bickett

    April 14th, 2009 11:03 pm

    Like a few others, I do not have too many posts. So, at this point I don’t have a lot to interlink to. However, I do see the value in this. Actually, I find this very useful in some of the blogs that I visit on a regular basis.

    So, I gave it a shot on a recent post I wrote about a tutorial website. Here’s the post ~ http://www.ryanbickett.com/tutorials/a-great-tutorial-site-for-learning-photoshop-photography-blogging-more/

    Thanks for another great article!

  • Robin

    April 14th, 2009 11:40 pm

    I thought my internal linking was better than it actually was. I checked my analytics for most frequent exit pages & found 3 articles, to add internal links in. One of them, was one of my more popular pages with the search engines & had a pretty high bounce rate. Hopefully, this will help plug some of the traffic bleed.

  • Megan

    April 14th, 2009 11:45 pm

    I wrote a book review (Under the Table: Saucy Tales from Culinary School) for today and ended up linking to some old posts in it.

    http://megan-deliciousdishings.blogspot.com/2009/04/book-review-under-table.html

    I actually interlink my posts pretty regularly already, but I think after reading this, I might start adding a further reading section at the bottom and hand-selecting posts. My automated related posts widget stopped working a while ago!

  • Teresa A George

    April 15th, 2009 12:07 am

    I was doing this anyway, but I went through all my posts and found some opportunities to interlink that I’d missed. And I added some further info to some of my posts.

    So, another great task Darren – thanks.

  • Neil Matthews

    April 15th, 2009 12:20 am

    something I do is use the cross-linker wordpress plugin to interlink blog posts automatically on specific keywords give it a go

  • Donna Hull

    April 15th, 2009 12:28 am

    Whenever I write a new post, I plan ways to link back to older ones if at all possible. My goal is to make the experience as valuable to my reader as I can. I do that with deep content, one blog that links to another and another, drilling down the information. Here’s a post that I wrote about yesterday on what to wear on a safari. It links back to reviews of both safari lodges where I stayed, an overall post on what to expect from a safari and another post on safari preparations that we made before leaving home.

    http://myitchytravelfeet.com/2009/04/14/dressing-for-safari/

    On Saturday’s I post a photo with a brief comment. It’s meant to make you want to go there. You can bet that I’ve already written a post about the place, allowing me to link text in the comment back to a meatier post.

  • orv curry

    April 15th, 2009 12:50 am

    Just a quick note to say how much fun this entire exercise has been!!! I am a very new blogger and these lessons have really helped me understand how this all can work. Thanks!!!

  • Carolyn

    April 15th, 2009 1:28 am

    This is the single, most important thing I’ve done on my blog to date. As soon as I learned of interlinking within posts a while back, on Problogger, I’ve been doing just that. And, of course, I’ve noticed that visitors are staying much longer on my blog. Thanks, Darren! I can’t thank you enough for this series. Great job!

  • kosmo @ The Casual Observer

    April 15th, 2009 2:34 am

    I do this all the time, as new articles seem to hit old stuff tangentially. For example, I link this humor post about the Minnesota sentate race – http://www.observingcasually.com/minnesotas-plan-to-cut-government-spending/ – whenever I write about actual news on that debacle :) Also, I write about baseball quite a bit (including this Manny Ramirez humor bit – http://www.observingcasually.com/manny-ramirez-signs-with-tigers/ ), and the articles hit on common themes a fair amount.

    I use the “ralated websites” plugin (which also shows related posts on other people’s blogs, in addition to your own), but I’ll have to check out some of the other plug-ins, esp since my friday fiction writing will likely spawn a few series.

    Good stuff, Darren.

  • Liz Hatchett

    April 15th, 2009 2:37 am

    This tip seems so obvious, but as a new blogger I don’t think the thought of interlinking would have occured to me. I don’t have a lot of posts up yet, but some of them do interrelate. This is should be a fun challenge and a good thing to keep in mind as I continue writing more posts.

  • Jerry Okorie

    April 15th, 2009 2:50 am

    Couldn’t be any simplier. Very interesting post , I never think about this fact , I am confident that it will help to make loyal readers and improve my rankings as well.

  • Brian

    April 15th, 2009 3:19 am

    I didn’t realize how many of my posts were related, I went through my blog, but in the end I decided to use a plugin to relate the posts and add it to the bottom, but I also have to go through and update my catergories to make sure that the related posts are relevant to each other.

  • Val Nelson

    April 15th, 2009 4:24 am

    As a web optimization specialist, I’m always thinking about more ways to link. I agree that they are very valuable for readers and search engines.

    I have found an easy way to do this with “Microkid’s Related Posts” plugin for Wordpress. I tried other “related posts” plugins but this one surpasses them all. More info:
    http://www.microkid.net/wordpress/related-posts/

    Thanks

  • Amanda Steinberg

    April 15th, 2009 7:05 am

    This assignment inspired me to install a “Most Popular Posts” widget (on my Joomla platform) and the results were fascinating. The top 2 of the last 60 days both had the word “Recession” in it (go figure, we’re a personal finance blog).

    Here’s my post: DailyWorth Round Up: Recession! Recession. Is There a Recession?

    P.s. This 31 days to a better blog challenge is rocking my world. I can’t wait to get the next assignment every night and fall asleep thinking about how I will approach it.

  • Kris

    April 15th, 2009 8:50 am

    I at least succeeded in putting labels on all old posts – yep, I true newbie. I like the idea I saw on Miss Britt where she constantly provides a link to a related post. Hopefully, within the next week my whole blog will be interlinked. Some already are…but not all.

  • Brigitte

    April 15th, 2009 9:04 am

    This was great for me because I had some posts that were about accessories that related to one main post. Now the series makes more sense…thanks!

    Top 10 Accessories for a DIY Computer to LCD TV Connection
    http://www.diysanctuary.com/2009/04/top-10-accessories-for-diy-computer-to.html

  • Chris Somers

    April 15th, 2009 11:26 am

    The interlinking strategies make a lot of sense. I learned a lot during this task. The whole challenge is awesome as we are learning something every day.

    We wrote a blog post about this task:

    http://activerain.com/blogsview/1033352/Are-you-utilizing-interlinking-strategies-in-your-blog

  • Peter

    April 15th, 2009 12:59 pm

    This is something I do pretty regularly on my guitar blog, especially if I notice I’m getting a spike in readers. If they’ve come to my site because of a particular hot story, I use a ‘Stuff You May Have Missed’ post to show them some other items and hopefully convert them into regular readers. Here’s the latest example:

    http://iheartguitar.blogspot.com/2009/03/stuff-you-may-have-missed-on-i-heart.html

  • venkat

    April 15th, 2009 3:09 pm

    After going to your post, I write an article linking to old posts ,but my doubt is how many links to old articles is suffice .
    here is my article interlinking to old articles
    http://computersservicing.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-reset-internet-explorers.html

  • Nathalie Hamidi

    April 15th, 2009 5:44 pm

    I think that the important thing to do is linking old articles to new ones, so that the reader not only “travels” to the past, but can go forward too.

    But how much is too much? I generally go check my old articles when I know I can link some words of them to some new article I just wrote, but is there some limit not to cross?

    For french-reading people, here are my thoughts about this 31DBBB task: http://nathaliehamidi.com/2009/04/15/31dbbb-interlink-your-old-blog-posts/

  • Maria Keckler

    April 15th, 2009 6:22 pm

    So simple and yet so brilliant! I started already and want to follow the advice to dedicate 15 mins a day to improve interlinking.

    Awesome task.

  • Ten

    April 15th, 2009 8:38 pm

    I do this always I can. But I don’t know it is very important.

    Thank you.

  • Kristin

    April 16th, 2009 1:09 am

    I didn’t realize all the benefits to doing this, but I’ve been doing it for about a week now! I have a daily picture post of the Crimson Year, a year long self-portrait project, and I’ve interlinked every post.

    The latest of these posts:
    http://mymeanbean.com/Blog/?p=2269

    I will be going through my posts and interlinking more as they are relevant to each other.

    Again, thank you and great timing, these assignments really do seem to just flow into each other!

  • Stephanie

    April 16th, 2009 3:00 am

    This is a great idea. I do this but not very consistently, but it makes sense to start it up again. I’m playing catchup today, got behind on the challenge yet again.

  • Patricia C

    April 16th, 2009 4:57 am

    I found it! Now I can keep going.

    PCVS

  • Monique Nelson

    April 16th, 2009 5:18 am

    This is a great example of something that should be common sense, because it makes so much sense!, but unless someone points it out to you, you will never realize what you have been missing out on. So, thank you for pointing this invaluable tip out to us!
    I have certainly made use of interlinking related subjects on my blog. If anyone would like to check it out and leave feedback, I would of course appreciate it!
    http://moniquenelson.wordpress.com
    Thanks! @MoniqueNelson

  • Patricia C

    April 16th, 2009 5:52 am

    Actually? I was planning on deleting all my old posts. Or most of them anyway. Have to rethink that.

  • Naomi Trower

    April 16th, 2009 5:59 am

    I really like the tip on making the link word a keyword that will rank you higher in Google. I have been linking to my other posts but not really paying attention to make sure it is a keyword. I also find it exciting that my fat loss blog is now getting found by a lot of keywords via google.

  • Elle Kay

    April 16th, 2009 6:55 am

    mwahahaha, I am one step ahead of you, Darren, one step ahead!

    I included some interlinks to old posts in my Day #7 Link post. Ch-ch-ch-check it out:

    http://thenewmckechnie.blogspot.com/2009/04/31dbbb-day-7-show-some-link-love.html

  • Nicole/MadlabPost

    April 16th, 2009 7:34 am

    I finally got around to interlinking my old blog posts when publishing a new post on 2009 Film Festivals that are going in during this week of April. It is actually part of a blog series that I have been doing on Wednesdays, so I found ways to make it work with this interlinking assignment for the 31DBBB.

    While following the task of interlinking old posts that were relevant to the new posts, I was able to link 5 old posts to the new one.

    Here is the post:

    Film Festivals 2009: Now Playing this Week in April

  • deeba

    April 16th, 2009 12:18 pm

    I found out too late. may I still join? Thank you

  • janflora

    April 16th, 2009 1:27 pm

    I have been linking back to old posts when possible lately for the simple reason that noone was reading them back then, so I want to make sure my readers see some other stuff I have done/said. And I recently went through old posts to check links and add Tags which were not on Wordpress when i started. So far so good. I had to dedicate some time to this , but it was good to read my own work again and see where I have changed and/or improved. I realized I had not been posting much on one topic I had committed to when I began the blog.
    Question: Do you keep pingbacks to your own posts in Comments section? I used to delete them till i realized they may encourage ppl to check out the pinged post.

    Here is a recent post w/ examples:

    http://janflora.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/amazon-fail-let-the-people-read/

  • Meikah Delid

    April 16th, 2009 3:31 pm

    I’m learning a lot from this, Darren. Good idea! Here’s my Day #8 Task. :)

    http://workbyremote.subersibo.net/2009/04/5-ways-to-evaluate-your-projects/

  • titan

    April 16th, 2009 8:34 pm

    i always do that and i know thats important. :)

  • iCan't Internet

    April 16th, 2009 8:42 pm

    Finally, a task that takes less then 30 minutes ;-)
    Done!

  • Veriance

    April 16th, 2009 9:01 pm

    Done! I went back through my blog and linked things up whenever possible.

    http://veriance.blogspot.com/

  • eBlogTip

    April 16th, 2009 11:39 pm

    I used a plugin called SEO smart links to automatically add interlinks to tags and categories. T

  • Amy

    April 17th, 2009 12:08 am

    Yet another smart task, and easily done. Which is a good thing, since I’ve got to do my taxes today.

  • ExcitedByLife

    April 17th, 2009 12:14 am

    We did a post linking to most of our older posts. Not too difficult as our blog is very young. It was a very fast way to write an article. The exercise also helped us identify a bit more the focus and branding for our blog.

    We like the idea of keeping an editorial journal of your posts so you know when and what you have posted. It would make it easier to identify relevant posts for new posts.

    Here is our link post:
    http://www.excitedbylife.com/passion/my-life-is-boring-make-life-exciting/

  • Dane

    April 17th, 2009 1:32 am

    I have short posts, parts one and two, about how making good choices is an essential part of being a highly productive person. Thanks for the idea of linking them!

    ~Dane
    http://bionicbutler.blogspot.com/2009/04/good-choices-part-2-smart-risk.html

  • I am a US Blogger

    April 17th, 2009 6:46 am

    I don’t think that this is to be done specially, isn’t it enough when I link to older posts while writing a new one??

  • Hexum

    April 18th, 2009 2:12 am

    I had heard some info about this before but I never really gave it a second thought because not too many people discus this.

    I realize now that it is an important role in the day-to-day maintenance of a blog and SEO. Thanks for this great post and now I’m off to interlink some post!

  • The Word Seeker

    April 18th, 2009 8:34 am

    I never thought to do this. Thanks for the task.

  • lvlc @ FromMomToMom

    April 18th, 2009 12:33 pm

    I am a newbie in this and I have few posts and still was doing it without knowing the real impact! thanks for letting me know! :)

  • Ark Lady

    April 18th, 2009 3:35 pm

    I do some interlinking on a regular basis but also find that the plug–ins are of great use.

    I like your additional suggestions and found that I have been doing some (like updating older posts) but that I could do it more frequently.

  • Herpes Help

    April 19th, 2009 4:21 pm

    I am constantly interlinking my pages on my sites and have seen dramatic traffic improvement as a result of this simple yet powerful implementation….

  • chris

    April 20th, 2009 12:45 am

    my blog is up and running at:

    http://www.bitsnbobsshowntell.blogspot.com

    but i can’t work out how to add a link within the post.
    It should be a simple case of thge “add link” tool but it never seems to work.

    Can anyone help?

  • Sam sall

    April 20th, 2009 2:11 am

    Hi all
    great tip
    i just found our that i do this in my blog without realizing it good got my blog, i just do it to provide further reading and sometime updat to my current post

    her is my post i’m presenting for this task

  • Sam sall

    April 20th, 2009 2:13 am

    sorry for the double comments but i forgot to put my link
    here is my post
    http://www.speechstarter.com/you-only-need-these-5-easy-tips-to-survive-recession/
    sorry again

  • Patricia C Vener

    April 20th, 2009 6:24 am

    It sudden;y hit me; if I go back far enough there is a post about caring for one’s jewelry that was well written and could serve as a start to both interlinking (or intralinking actually) and mind mapping.

  • Gina

    April 21st, 2009 3:23 pm

    I’m a few days behind but actually wrote a few of these types of blog posts over the past few days. Here’s two examples (I’d love any comments, feedback or suggestions to improve from other readers):

    Birthday Parties
    http://twurl.nl/junijg

    Turn Off TV Week
    http://twurl.nl/01krje

  • Conrad

    April 23rd, 2009 5:45 am

    I’ve been doing this for a while already, but I’ve never really trained myself to think of my old posts while writing new posts. I just do it when the thought pops into my head. I’ve never gone over my old post to look for a linking opportunity either, but I’m going to do that right now! :-)

  • Jennifer

    April 23rd, 2009 1:02 pm

    I usually do this but for some reason completely forgot to with the 31 DBBB Challenge posts. This helped me clean up both in terms of keywords and in terms of an index of links. Moving forward, I’ll have an easier time of interlinking content within the 31 DBBB posts.

    Here’s my index….
    http://curiosityquohttp://www.problogger.net/wp-content/themes/problogger2/images/post_comment.giftient.blogspot.com/2009/04/day-8-of-bbb-challenge-interlink-your.html
    which upon further reflection is made irrelevant by a unique tag….oh well, that’s how to learn.

  • Darran

    April 25th, 2009 12:33 pm

    I decided to write a post on this after all. Here it is:

    http://limetouch.com/archives/31dbbb-day8-interlink-your-old-blog-posts/

    I touched on how we could source for related posts especially if we have a huge number of published posts. And I am not talking about 100-200, but rather 500-1000.

  • Soulpowr

    April 26th, 2009 12:58 pm

    Was doing this already because I have some on-going series on the blog. However, this was a good time to do those link updates. Thanks, this is a useful tip.

  • Suzanne

    April 28th, 2009 4:03 am

    I think I covered a few challenges with one post! I linked out to my fellow bloggers. I linked to my own past posts. And I sort of set up an interview, that will go out to more than one blogger.

    http://mommydrinkstyle.blogspot.com/2009/04/its-all-about-you-and-me.html

  • Lisa @ Stop and Smell the Chocolates

    May 1st, 2009 9:36 am

    I have been doing this for a while, but can do better! I started looking at my posts and found some new interlink opportunities right away. Thanks for the tip!

  • Kimberley Payne

    May 2nd, 2009 5:34 am

    I’ve never done this before so it’s taking me longer than 10 minutes to link together my blog posts. But I know from now on I’ll be more mindful.

    I’ve linked a series called Resolution Interviews together. The first one starts here: http://fitforfaith.blogspot.com/2009/01/bonnie-way-resolutions-interview-1.html

  • Katie

    May 4th, 2009 10:16 am

    Yep, this is a good idea if it can really help me. I will continue to do it and see if there are any results. The only thing is that I can’t disable the pingbacks

  • Paula

    May 7th, 2009 5:01 am

    Thanks for this tip.

    I’ve tried a wordpress plugin in the past but I never managed to get it to work.

    I link to previous posts within my post when relevant, but I’ve never spent time going through old posts and linking them together. Just linked some now – it’s going to take quite a while to work my way through all the old posts.

  • Elizabeth Kaylene

    May 8th, 2009 2:27 am

    I usually link to older, related posts to inform new readers or remind my regular readers of what I’m talking about. I didn’t know that interlinking improved SEO!

    I’m also guilty of saying I need to add a “related posts” footer to each of my posts, and never doing it… Today is the day!

    @Paula: I’ll be looking for a WP plugin later this afternoon, so if I find a good one that is easy to get up and running I will let you know. If I don’t find one, I’ll probably just code some PHP, so I will come back and let you know about that if that’s the case. (:

  • Elizabeth Kaylene

    May 8th, 2009 2:29 am

    Yikes, my comment says it was posted May 8th at 2:30 am but it’s definitely still May 7th at 12:30 pm!

  • Paula

    May 8th, 2009 4:48 am

    Thanks Elizabeth.

    The plugin I tried was called ‘related’.

  • James

    May 8th, 2009 1:39 pm

    Thanks for the article! From the comments I was able to find the Yet another related post plugin to use in my blog to help with this task too!
    Cheers,
    James

  • Albert

    May 11th, 2009 2:31 am

    I did not feel that interlinking blog posts on such a new blog was going to have much impact, but have found that my specific readers are not as websavy as those who might be following a 31DBBB course, so I used this interlinking task to write a short tutorial on using and navigating the blog. It is interlinking on the blog, but not entirely in the way intended when Darren wrote this task
    You can see this particular post here:
    http://samuraitoday.blogspot.com/2009/05/features-of-samurai-today-blog-site.html

  • Elizabeth Kaylene

    May 11th, 2009 2:55 am

    @Paula: I found a great plugin: WordPress Related Posts. I’m using it at my personal blog and will begin implementing it with my other blogs, now that I know it has no bugs. (:

  • Paula

    May 12th, 2009 7:34 am

    @Elizabeth: thanks for this. I’ve installed this plugin now and found it really user-friendly.

  • Zach Younkin

    May 15th, 2009 4:01 am

    Darren,

    I actually do this on a weekly basis (at least). I often do an update on popular posts from the past. A few examples would be:

    1. http://zachyounkin.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/tops-from-april/

    2. http://zachyounkin.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/credit-score/

    3. http://zachyounkin.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/failblog/

  • Kim

    May 15th, 2009 6:42 am

    I didn’t do this originally, but about a year ago I started trying to add links at the end of each post, and I do think it has helped to increase traffic and subscribers. I try to link to my most popular posts where relevant.

  • Alison Moore Smith

    May 26th, 2009 7:22 pm

    Nice to have an easy assignment. Thanks. I needed a breather!

  • cancerinfo

    May 27th, 2009 11:40 pm

    thank you, I have never run your strategy, it seems reasonable and very good for seo, I’ll try to test

  • Mandy

    June 11th, 2009 6:39 am

    Do you just link to that posts url or do you use anchor text?

    I’ve read somewhere recently that you should do this using anchor text? That didn’t seem right somehow to me?

  • E Cigarette

    June 30th, 2009 6:44 pm

    Great way to boost not only the performance, but also the SEO qualities of blogging. I think interlinking should be done with Anchor text as Mandy suggests.

  • Dan - E Cigarette Web

    June 30th, 2009 7:55 pm

    Great post. Am going to have to see if I can trawl through the sea of blogging I have done in order to link these up!

    @Mandy: I believe using Anchor Text is the best way to do this.

  • Chloe Alice Wilson

    July 1st, 2009 11:58 pm

    Hi,
    I’ve finally got enough posts to be able to interlink a few – yippee! I’ve not got enough to use the in post option but instead have added a ‘Related Posts’ bit at the end of each post that I decide on manually rather than using a plugin. This enables me to be a bit wider on the ‘related’ issue until I get a few more posts! I’ve also recently made a weekly timetable of the various tasks related to blogging and have assigned time for interlinking posts in there to remind me.
    Cheers, Chloe

  • ED Hardy

    July 4th, 2009 5:06 pm

    I’ve done this step for all my posts in the past, it’s really useful to bring your readers to previous relevant post. It could increases your page views, and better SEO too. :)


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