Comments on: Interlink Your Old Blog Posts [Day 8 31DBBB]

By: ED Hardy

ED Hardy — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:06:49 +0000

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. :)

By: Chloe Alice Wilson

Chloe Alice Wilson — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:58:28 +0000

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

By: Dan - E Cigarette Web

Dan - E Cigarette Web — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:55:59 +0000

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.

By: E Cigarette

E Cigarette — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:44:13 +0000

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.

By: Mandy

Mandy — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:39:36 +0000

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?

By: cancerinfo

cancerinfo — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:40:07 +0000

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

By: Alison Moore Smith

Alison Moore Smith — Tue, 26 May 2009 09:22:45 +0000

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

By: Kim

Kim — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:42:33 +0000

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.

By: Zach Younkin

Zach Younkin — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:01:24 +0000

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/

By: Paula

Paula — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:34:46 +0000

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

By: Elizabeth Kaylene

Elizabeth Kaylene — Sun, 10 May 2009 16:55:12 +0000

@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. (:

By: Albert

Albert — Sun, 10 May 2009 16:31:21 +0000

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

By: James

James — Fri, 08 May 2009 03:39:05 +0000

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

By: Paula

Paula — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:48:06 +0000

Thanks Elizabeth.

The plugin I tried was called ‘related’.

By: Elizabeth Kaylene

Elizabeth Kaylene — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:29:39 +0000

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

By: Elizabeth Kaylene

Elizabeth Kaylene — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:27:52 +0000

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. (:

By: Paula

Paula — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:01:58 +0000

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.

By: Katie

Katie — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:16:12 +0000

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

By: Kimberley Payne

Kimberley Payne — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:34:00 +0000

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

By: Lisa @ Stop and Smell the Chocolates

Lisa @ Stop and Smell the Chocolates — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:36:40 +0000

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!