As we continue our series this month, 28 Days to Build a Successful Blog, I want to spend some time discussing one blogging practice a lot of us forget to use. We talk a lot about linking to others blogs when we discuss what we can do to get noticed and to provide information to our readers. We also discuss blogrolls and linking in general. The one practice which is one of the most overlooked and under used sources of links in our post – links to our own blog post. I am mainly talking about putting links to our own post inside our post.
Internal Linking in our Post
Using internal linking or as some might call it, interlinking post, is something you can do even if your blog is relatively new. You can always find a way to connect one post to another from time to time. As your blog ages and you have posted more and more content, you will have more opportunities to link your new post to a post in your archives.
Doing this one practice accomplishes three benefits for you and your blog.
- You are providing more information to your readers and giving them more reasons to come back to your blog.
- You are keeping your readers on your blog, reading your content.
- Internal links count in SEO
Related Post Linking
Another method of adding links to your own internal links in a blog post is to use a plugin like, Yet Another Related Post. While this is a great way to get relevant links to your new post, don’t use this method in place of putting some of those organic links to your own post in your new post. (You can see this plugin in action by scrolling down to the bottom of this and every post here on Blog For Profit).
I try to do both of these methods as often as I can. If you do, you are going to find your readers will stay on your blog longer and read more of your content.
