What type of interlinks are best from articles I write?
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Hi everyone,
I run a job board (job website) - www.hawaiijobengine.com - and on the homepage I have 50 job categories ("Accounting / Finance" is one another is "Admin / Clerical" etc). I write your typical 400 word article length, giving career insight. Questions:
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should I 70% of the time try to use exact keywords in the article and link to those categories and other 30% of links should be to more specific search terms like "accountant in CITY NAME". The 50 categories already have decent rankings already and those are the once I am trying to push higher. Obviously, I also want weaker pages (more specific search terms) to rank higher too. I am writing genuine and original content, it is just a matter off whether I should adjust my keyword focus.
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On average how many different interlinks from a 400 page article is acceptable. Range of 1-3, with 2 on average sounding about right? Most of the times I have only 1 or 2 interlinks from each article, but once in a while I want to link 6-7 places within the article. I don't know if that is appropriate.
thank you,
Kristian
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thank you, very helpful.
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Be smart about it, as long as it is relevant for the user and genuinely gives them related information to other subject matter on the site. Having said that , it is mentioned that Google can index upto a 100 links on a page. More info on this link: http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/an-internal-link-juice-tool-14969
Take a look at this site that does quite a lot of internal linking and is ranking at the top for all "office space for rent" and "office space for lease" geo targeted keywords (www.loopnet.com)
To answer point 2 , if you have a 400 word article having 1 to 2 internal links in that sounds like a good balance.
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