Recomendation: Auto link keywords

[Ryan]

I helped with the code of this plugin awhile back.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...d-and-replace/

Thanks for the link. That looks like a really handy plugin.

Flicking through the code taught me something darn useful about output buffering too ... ie: you don't need to use ob_end_flush() since the server automatically flushes the buffer for you when the script ends. I'd been trying to hook into wp_foot() to end the buffer rather than just letting it run it's course.

[rilwis]

I'm using the SEO Smart Links and Internal Link Building for linking keywords with urls, they can supplement to each other. I think you should try both of them.

[StephenCronin]

I'm not expert, but I don't think that shuffling internal links around your site will do anything to your rankings.

Now, having said that, you can drive your own page rank to specific pages, based on how you internally link your pages - so that, if you have one well-(externally-)linked, ranking page, you can pass your other pages' rank to that page.

But, you can't improve your overall page rank of your site by passing internal links around from page to page.

Hi Chip,

Actually it could help improve rankings and quite a lot.

PageRank is worth less and less as time goes by. Far more important is having your keywords in the anchor text of links pointing to your pages. I'd take one keyword optimised link from a relevant external site over 10 internal ones, but it still helps you rank for that keyword.

And he's actually talking about doing this from multiple sites back to his main site. That's the way to the top of the SERPs.

[chipbennett]

Hi Chip,

Actually it could help improve rankings and quite a lot.

PageRank is worth less and less as time goes by. Far more important is having your keywords in the anchor text of links pointing to your pages. I'd take one keyword optimised link from a relevant external site over 10 internal ones, but it still helps you rank for that keyword.

And he's actually talking about doing this from multiple sites back to his main site. That's the way to the top of the SERPs.

Ah, I missed the part about a "network" of sites.

I do love to see the system so easily gamed...

[iPhoneclub]

If you haven't made your final decision on which plugin to use for this I'd like to add BM Keyword Link, which I noticed nobody has mentioned yet. It's the one I use for all my blogs and apart from enabling/disabling on older posts it does all the stuff you want.

Developer's site is here: Dijksterhuis.org, which has additional screenshots.

(and thanks for the registration approval Jeff!)

[andrea_r]

And he's actually talking about doing this from multiple sites back to his main site. That's the way to the top of the SERPs.

Ah, I missed the part about a "network" of sites.

Too much interlinking between sites on the same IP and then Googel will count it less.

I do waffle a bit on this, as I can see both sides. On the one hand, I run multiple sites from one install, interlink some, and do just fine.

Others do multiple mu installs so they can have a handful of domains on this IP/host and then the same at another host.

[Ipstenu]

Mrph. I'm waffling like hell on google's idea of this one (interlinking on the same IP counts for less). Ugh. Interlinking between the same two sites, regardless of IP, should have a limit, I think. I mean, if you have a 'sister' site you tag team with (wptavernanonymous, for people who don't drink, but also that posts a separate but similar type of article) would cause a LOT of cross-linking. At a certain point, that should no longer add to your page ranking.

Meh. I need a drink to think about this!

[Jeffro]

Meh. I need a drink to think about this!