I’ve noticed that search traffic to my blog ( https://r.je ) has been steadily dropping over the last few months. I’ve added more pages and some SEO tools tell me I have too many internal links.
Is this likely the reason for the drop? Every time I add a link it goes into the <nav> element adding to the number of internal links. Would categorising the sections on their own pages help?
I’m not even sure this is the reason for the steady drop in traffic but it’s a common thing SEO analysis tools pick up on.
I dont have a specific answer but I did notice your “Latest Updates” go all the way back to
2012. You could put everything older than, say, a year on a “past updates” page with a link to “Older Updates” at the bottom of “Latest Updates”. You also have duplicate “Latest Updates” on the same page under “About the Author”. Updates have nothing to do with “About the author”. Even the “Articles” links are duplicated on the page. I counted 150 links on the main page, many of them duplicates.
I would say experiment with getting rid of the duplicates and moving the older updates off the main page and then resubmit your site to google and see what happens.
I’ve never heard of “too many internal links” being a problem. I thought having internal links was a good thing.
I’m guessing what is meant is “too many internal links in upper level navigation”. i.e. instead of making navigation easier the trees get lost in the forest.
Think about Wikipedia guys. How many internal links an average Wikipedia article has and it doesn’t affect.
The drop in our website’s traffic might be due to other reasons. It will be better checking out Analytics data if you are using it.
You will need to consider the metrics like the sources of traffic, average pages per session, bounce rate etc.
Under normal circumstances, there is no limit for the internal link within the site as far as I know. I use about 20 internal links per page on my own blog.
I don’t think that having too many internal links is bad for a website. Anyway, the thing is not about quantity, but about quality. When building your website link profile, you should initially pay attention to the major parameters of platform you pick for link publication. This is especially matters a lot, when it comes to the website DR. I’ve recently been optimizing a website and I’m sure what I’m talking about. Try choosing only the best platforms for your links and you’ll soon notice that the traffic to your blog will increase. Good luck!
It depends on the size of your article . lets say size of your article is 1000 words then you con use 8-10 internal links and 1-2 external links (Aproximate) .
Google offers detailed advice to webmasters on the dos and don’ts for SEO purposes, and nowhere in that advice have I been able to find anything regarding number of internal links.
That strongly suggests to me that Google believes (as I do) that you should use as many as is required to assist your readers in navigating your site.
As far as i know you can use around 100 internal links and 5 external links per page according to Google Webmaster Guidelines .
But all depends on the size of your article . So according to your article size you can estimate the use of internal and external links .
Creating too many outbound links make it harder for the visitors to read your blog and may confuse or annoy them. Create more internal links and link to as few external websites as possible. Make sure the link is relevant to the content as well.
This is very true, I see no harm in creating as many internal links in your own content. This is the same strategy I follow on my personal blog, all anchors links to articles that are related. Just make sure you’re doing this the right way.