Nov 24, 2007
I was prompted by Aidan of Inkode SEO the other day to place better internal crosslinking between my articles. Apparently, I have some good content on here and it's hard to find.I tend to agree.
This is something I have been meaning to do for some time, and I have now finally taken a couple of steps towards this. Aidan's comment was basically the kick in the pants required. You may notice a list of "related articles" at the bottom of every post, and a next / previous link on every page.
Will be interesting to see if page views increase as a result - In the 3 days it has been running, my cooking blog has almost doubled it's pageviews per visitor so perhaps it was a good idea after all?
Custom blog software
If anyone was wondering why I didn't do this sooner, the answer is simple. I choose to write my own blogging software. While the freedom to code however you like is nice, these 2 small changes took the best part of a day to implement, much more complicated than simply installing a plugin and tweaking some settings.I urge you all to click on as many links as you can so my pageview stats will be over-inflated, and I can justify this additional time spent :)
Who knows, you might even find some interesting content in there.
8 Comments
Next/prev, tags, related articles! Heaps better, and certainly more engaging of users. Very well done. And yes, all takes time. Had a revamp of my website content yesterday, and just took time. I too will be interested in the traffic changes.
Looking forward to when you date/time your rss feed rather than just date. Two articles arrived Sat 12:am ;)
As an aside, isnt Inkode doing well on the Search Engines for "Search Engine Optimisation". Always great seeing a friend kicking ass over some of the other big names out there.
These are some fantastic additions! I can really see how it would suck my time away allowing me to willingly peruse more of the site.
I do question the need to provide the next/previous links on both the top and the bottom of the article and feel they could possibly use some more vertical padding for better appearance.
Overall though, I think they're great additions.
Where can I get your blog/CMS software again? ;-)
Cheers for the the juice! :D
Dude, really nice work great to see you moving forward, I definitely believe this will prove well worth the effort.
Oh and Michael - Just keeping you on ya toes mate ;)
Very nice - great work and I'm sure it'll pay dividends.
Hmm - I have to think about it and back soon.
Hi Harvey,
So it's been a few months since you did this, hows it going, was it work the day of re coding?
Regards Lynny
As a sidenote, I have noticed that this "better crosslinking" has dredged up some of the old articles that should really have been left to die gracefully.
When we start blogging we do tend to post all kinds of mindless shit don't we? Anyone else notice that looking through your archives?
Perhaps a good time to do some springcleaning of the old stuff.