17 Aug
Why you should use internal linking on your website.
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Some one on this American Real estate blog, did a test using wikipedia, and it makes for some interesting reading regarding google and how it boosts websites with good internal linking.
Wikipedia has a boring article called real estate with minimal external links pointing to it. By the way I refuse to give a link that does not have nofollow tags to wikipedia Either way, I spent a few boring nights of (ok call me a nurde) wikilinking (internal linking from other wikipedia pages) the word “real estateâ€? (believe it or not without spamming wikipedia) from a few hundred other wiki articles to the real estate page. The results have come back and Wikipedia’s real estate article jumped from the #18 spot to #10 spot for “real estateâ€? a VERY competitive keyword in Google in a few months of time.
Lessons to be learned???
This is a clear indication of what people can do with proper anchor text internal linking (either through their sidebar or through content linking). Anchor text still rules no matter where the link comes from. And, of course, Wikipedia will rule the SERPs for a long time to come as the nofollow tags seems to make Wikipedia nothing but a PR cookie monster.
The original article can be found here, on the real estate seo blog
