Comments on: Busby SEO Test – Does Internal Linking Pattern Still Do The Trick?

By: linda j

linda j — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:34:08 +0000

Google is penalizing me for my internal linking structure… and it is all logical.
the site is organized, country, state, county, city and then individual properties.
cities within a county all link to each other,and then there is a link on the city page to the counties within the state.
county has links to all counties within county, links to cities within current county, and links to all states in county.

It is a logical heirarchy linking system that is related.
I did not have this linking system in place before..
it was much simpler.

By: Louis Liem

Louis Liem — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 06:01:59 +0000

There are a lot of factors taken account when determining SERPs and in my opinion, the plugin should affect the articles listed in “related articles” section more instead of the main article itself.

So I would suggest optimizing the main article to get it back to its previous position or to the first page.

By: Darrell

Darrell — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:31:52 +0000

Hey I find this interesting. I just added a “related post” plugin to my site and 4 days later my rankings for keywords that I was on page 2 and 3 for dropped to pages 33 to 40.

Do you think I should deactivate the plug in?

By: SBA

SBA — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:23:56 +0000

Very interesting dilemma. I think the natural links are safest, if not best. Links in one post should encourage visitors to read further around a related topic or to obtain more details. SBA´s last blog post..Content Is Not King

By: Amateur SEO

Amateur SEO — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:10:58 +0000

I was ranking 3rd well for a competitive term and I got greedy. I wanted to rank 1st and sent a few thousand links using sitewide, and boom my page went deeep into the 20's.. Amateur SEO´s last blog post..Link Exchange Techniques

By: Meeting rooms

Meeting rooms — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:21:08 +0000

Very tricky. I believe the use of anchor text should be very natural without a lot of thinking to try and enhance your ranking.I agree with you there, use links in articles that are relevant and place two or three links to the page with a more specific anchor text(long tail keyword preferably).

Great post.