Internal links

April 13th, 2007 · Filed under Archives

I got the idea of writing this article when I was reading about Flipping website in the blog of Dave and Jay.

Dave visited my MyBlogLog profile, so I wanted to see what his blog got to offer. On the home page I saw “Website Flipping for Profit – Part 3″. I personally don’t like to read part 3 of anything, unless I’ve read parts 1 and 2. So naturally I went looking for part 1 first. It was not on the first page and there is no “Recent Posts” section. There are some categories listed, so I looked at them for a second. That’s when I thought “Fokkit” and I closed the tab.

Later I was checking out my MBL profile page and I saw Dave’s avatar on it, with the text in that purple-ish color that tells you, you visited that link before. I could not remember what I saw on that site so I went back to look. “Ow, yeah, it’s that ‘flipping websites’ blog”, I thought. But something told me to go look for that Part 1. So I did. And it turned out to be a really great group of articles.

Disclaimer
I want to make it very clear that I’m not cracking on these guys, or try to be negative. On the contrary, I think there is a lesson to be learned for everyone and their blog provided a very good example. I personally would suggest you read this blog, because it holds a great deal of very helpful information. This blog will be in my top 10 in the near future.

Internal links
It is very important to create links to other posts in your blog. Especially when the articles are closely related and they are a little far apart from eachother.

I suggested to Dave and Jay to link the words “Part1″ and “Part 2″ in the first sentence of Part 3, to the respective parts of the series. They might have already done so by the time you read this article.

Non-related reading
Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design (Voices That Matter)

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  • http://www.davesaraiva.com Dave

    Thanks for the shout out Rehuel!

    I just saw your second suggestion and I will be implementing that tomorrow! :)

  • http://www.rehuel.com Rehuël

    It’s a pleasure man. The more I read trough your posts (I’m already on page 8, within 1 hour) the more I notice how very similar our situations (and maybe our personalities) are.

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