Comments on: When complaining about internal links don’t forget Wikipedia

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:10:41 +0000

@Microsoft wikipedia entry - lol on the CEO, billionaires, millionaires, financial and so on internal links! I wonder why did it leave all other most common words that have a wikipedia entry! Nice catch.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:54:03 +0000

As a new blogger, I think there is nothing wrong in some internal linking to help the site flow and to build up some page rank which gets a new site like mine a little more credibility. I do agree that nothing is more annoying than having to redo all the broken links that happen when a site you’ve written about goes under and they do go under quite quickly. Its easy to stand from a pulpit and sound very passionate about internal linking but when you’re the one having to change a few thousand links due to sites that have gone under, I don’t think you would be as convicted about being against internal linking as described by the author. Cheers for a good article.

By: TDavid

TDavid — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 05:48:15 +0000

Ben - yes, you can link external or internally in a wiki, but that wasn’t the point. Take a look at the Microsoft Wikipedia entry I specifically linked and please tell me honestly if internal links were overdone in that Wikipedia entry? That’s merely one of way too many Wikipedia pages that look like that. There are nine internal links in the very first sentence!

As for the “blogger community” and attacking, I think you misread something here. I certainly don’t represent — nor want to represent — the blogger community at large. Just one guy with an opinion.

And, if anything, this post was meant as supportive to the publications who were being criticized for having too many internal links. I was simply suggesting as an example that the Wikipedia, which is held in high regard by many and I didn’t see any other blogger mention them, is perhaps the most popular biggest offender of incestuous link practices on the web.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 05:28:10 +0000

On the subject of Wikipedia being the worst at internal linking. Let me remind you that internal linking is an optional practice on this user generated site. The user can so chose to internally or externally link. I’ve provided the following example shamelessly linking to my own casual mac commentary site.

Internal Linking: (assuming this is a wiki)
[[Wikipedia]].

External Linking: (to my blog)
[http://allmymac.blogspot.com]

Is internal linking all that bad? No. But that should be left for the user to decide… I find it hard to believe that a less passive media like Wiki’s are being attacked by the blogger community.

By: Internal Linking Explained

Internal Linking Explained — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:54:52 +0000

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