Restructuring Your Internal Links

[PTC]

Some of you might have seen this thread at PAP from Randy Ray; http://www.pokeraffiliateprograms.co...-cabinets.html

I mentioned that I have been making some adjustments to how my 3rd tier pages are linked together, and how they point back to the 2nd tier landing page they are linked from.

I got a pretty nice bump in the serps this week, I've been restructuring to go after some much more competitive terms and I jumped from about page 10 to page 4... so here is what I did;

Say for example, there are 2 basic navigation paths you want people to take;

Homepage-->Texas holdem guide-->10-15 holdem articles linked from here
Homepage-->omaha guide-->10-15 omaha articles linked from here

On each of those articles, I had a link pointing back to both the holdem guide, and the omaha guide. So 2 links on top of each article.

I changed these links at the top of each article so that there was only 1 link. The holdem articles are linked back to the holdem guide, the omaha articles are linked back to the omaha guide...but they are not interlinked except for the site-wide navigation bar.

I'm not sure how to say this...but what I think this does is keep the "holdem juice" in the holdem section, and the "omaha juice" in the omaha section

I'm actually going for terms a little different than those, but they are a good example to use here.

I have done a few other things on the site, but I don't think they had much of an impact on this. I got a few nofollow links and added a few untargeted pages.

[PTC]

It occured to me I did do something else in the recent weeks. I went through about 15 pages a replaced br tags with p tags

[Brandon]

I tried to alter your post to show the code you are trying to show us but couldnt. Basically he changed break tags br/ (inside < and >) for p, /p

[CK]

Hey PTC


Yeah its always best from what I have been told to use your p's intead of the breaks..but as far as interlinking with your site. I dont think there is anything wrong with linking from your holdem to your omaha section and back and honestly I think it would be better to link within the content from the user perspective " Dont forget to check out our Omaha section" or something along those lines to get users to view more of your site. They may not see that section from the sidebar

Another way and I dont think it hurts any is to add a menu to each of your article pages. I will use ours as an example but when we did this one, we added a seperate menu to each of the articles, a) to link to them more and b) it gets users to digg deeper into your site, without having to hit the back button. Make sure you limit the number of links on a page...I think its "supposed" to be 100 or something for a main page,,,but for something like this where you are adding sub menus, I think 15 - 25 is beneficial.

If you have a large amount of articles to be displayed divided them up equally, provide seperate menus but categorize it so section A links to section B and section B links to Section C which links back to section A. and all of these sub menus link to your main one.

Anyone have a better idea.