Internal Linking Strategy

Develop an internal linking strategy.

**Website:** ${{WEBSITE}}
**Site Structure:** ${{STRUCTURE}}
**Priority Pages:** ${{PRIORITY_PAGES}}
**Content Volume:** ${{CONTENT_VOLUME}}
**Current Issues:** ${{ISSUES}}

Create the strategy:

**Site Architecture Review:**
- Current hierarchy
- Navigation structure
- Category structure
- URL structure
- Click depth analysis

**Internal Link Audit:**
- Current link distribution
- Orphan pages
- Deep pages
- Over-linked pages
- Under-linked pages

**Priority Pages:**
- Money pages
- Pillar content
- Converting pages
- New content

**Linking Structure:**

**Hub and Spoke Model:**
- Hub pages (pillars)
- Spoke pages (clusters)
- Linking patterns
- Anchor text strategy

**Hierarchical Linking:**
- Homepage links
- Category links
- Subcategory links
- Content links

**Contextual Linking:**
- Related content links
- See also sections
- In-content links
- Breadcrumb links

**Anchor Text Strategy:**
- Exact match usage
- Partial match usage
- Branded anchors
- Natural variations
- Avoiding over-optimization

**Implementation:**

**Automated Linking:**
- Breadcrumbs
- Related posts
- Category archives
- Tag pages

**Manual Linking:**
- Editorial links
- Resource links
- Navigation links
- Footer links

**Link Maintenance:**
- Broken link monitoring
- Redirect management
- Link updates for new content
- Link audit schedule

**Best Practices:**
- Links per page guidelines
- Link placement
- Follow vs nofollow
- Link relevance

**Tools:**
- Internal link analysis tools
- Visualization tools
- Broken link checkers
- Site crawlers

**Metrics:**
- Internal link count
- Link distribution
- PageRank flow
- Crawl efficiency
- Ranking correlation