The Beginner’s Guide to Internal Linking (How to Keep Your Readers from Leaving)
When I first launched CrestlineDaily,
I thought the goal of SEO was purely about “getting people to the site.”
I spent all my energy on catchy headlines and social media shares.
But once I got someone onto a page, I realized I had a new problem: they do read one article and then just… vanish.
That’s when I discovered the unsung hero of SEO: Internal Linking.
Think of your website like a physical building.
If your articles are rooms, internal links are the hallways and doors that connect them.
Without them, your reader is stuck in one room, and the only way out is to head back outside (leaving your site entirely).
But Here’s how to use internal linking to keep people around, based on what I have learned while growing my own blog.