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Internal Blog Linking Experiment for SEO Part 3
By Todd | January 3, 2009
As a final word on the internal blog linking experiment we’ve been running this past month I’ve put together this video walking your through at the request of a number of readers. The video shows you how to add and style the link code into your single post template file for most wordpress blog themes.
If you’re haven’t been following the experiment you can find the previous two posts about it here
Internal Blog Linking Experiment for SEO part 1
Internal Blog Linking Experiment for SEO part 2
Although, as you read in part 2 of the experiment, the results from such a simple 5 minute linking procedure were fairly dramatic, they were not long lived. It seems in this past week the serp ranks have fallen back down from their highs of the week before.
Having said that I believe the reason for the fall has more to do with the frequency of my blog posts than anything else. During the week of Christmas I only posted once to my blog and it was this week that my ranking began to fall back to where they were at the beginning of the experiment.
This makes sense since it is the bottom of each blog post that the links appear pointing back to your home page (or wherever you have them point) so the more often you post the more often google will see new links to your home page.
Now that the holidays are over and the blog posts will be more frequent again we’ll have a better idea of what’s going on.
P.S. this bit of code was added after the original post and is the same code found in the video. It will help you layout the h1 tags inline with a different style than the other h1 tags on your blog
<center>
<h1 style=”font-size:9pt; font-weight:normal; display:inline”>
<a href=”http://www.longtailtreasure.com”>Learn Affiliate Marketing</a>
</h1>
| <h1 style=”font-size:9pt; font-weight:normal; display:inline”>
<a href=”http://www.longtailtreasure.com” >Affiliate Marketing Course</a>
</h1>
</center>
Topics: SEO, link building |
Todd
Great video - as always!
Could you please make the code available as a download for us so that we can cut and paste it, as the code in the video (to me) looks complicated and to try to copy from the video is very hard….:-)
Many thanks for listening!
Harry
http://harryharrisblog.com
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Hey thanks Harry!
Now if someone could just help me figure out how to get a camtasia screen capture to look good on youtube I’d be thrilled!
Anyway, I added the code to the blog post so you can cut and past. My first attempt in the first blog post wasn’t working for some reason but problem solved now.
cheers,
todd
Two thumbs up. I’ll be implementing it shortly, as soon as I can work out how to move FREE Wordpress over to my hosting account.
James Mangosteen Dean
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Thanks James!
I’ve never moved a wordpress blog from the free hosted wordpress to one on my own hosting account … come to think of it I’ve never used the free wordpress hosted blogs before, but going moving from one wordpress to another wordpress should be fairly easy. Certainly easier than blogger to wordpress.
On the manage tab of your wordpress admin there is an export and an import feature which should do the trick.
Todd
You the man!
Harry
http://harryharrisblog.com
http://twitter.com/harryharrisblog
Harry Harris’s last blog post..Twitter Followers Growing
No harry, YOU the man!