Increased Interlinking in Articles to Improve Link Architecture

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  1. HubPages profile imageSTAFF
    HubPagesposted 21 months ago

    Hi all! In order to strengthen our link architecture, our editing team will now be adding relevant interlinks to articles that come through our editing queues. These interlinks will preferably be added as hyperlinks in the body of the text but may be added as a "recommended reading" section if there is no easy way to interlink within the text. This strategy does not currently extend to every new article that comes through our curation queues, but that may change down the line.

    Improving the internal linking on our sites will help them get indexed by search engines. If you already have strong interlinks in your articles, keep doing what you're doing!

    1. EricDockett profile image93
      EricDockettposted 21 months agoin reply to this

      If we are already linking within our articles will the editors leave it alone? (Please)

    2. viryabo profile image85
      viryaboposted 21 months agoin reply to this

      Thank you for this. My question is will it be site-wide or niche site to niche site linking only?

      So, for instance, can I interlink my articles on Dengarden with any on Discover, (or even on Hubpages)?

      1. alexadry profile image90
        alexadryposted 21 months agoin reply to this

        I suspect it will continue to be niche site to niche site linking only, but let's hope for some more details.

      2. HubPages profile imageSTAFF
        HubPagesposted 21 months agoin reply to this

        Our editors will prioritize linking to articles on the same niche site, but if articles on other niche sites are highly relevant, those may be linked as well. For example, in an article on PetHelpful about how to train a dog to use a dog door, we might link to an article on DenGarden about how to install a dog door.

        Links from our niche sites to Discover or HubPages are not permitted.

        1. SerenityHalo profile image93
          SerenityHaloposted 21 months agoin reply to this

          This is good info, thank you.

        2. viryabo profile image85
          viryaboposted 21 months agoin reply to this

          Thank you. That’s good to know.

    3. Jan Stepan profile image85
      Jan Stepanposted 21 months agoin reply to this

      I believe this is the right step forward. It will be interesting to see how it affects overall traffic numbers. I sincerely hope more positives are coming our way.

    4. profile image0
      mandalinladyposted 8 months agoin reply to this

      You tell em Glenn, after all you own stock in the Arena Group, and we wouldn't want it to fail would we?

  2. Dean Traylor profile image98
    Dean Traylorposted 21 months ago

    I've been asked in the past to remove them, especially on article that were added to niche sites.

    1. Carb Diva profile image100
      Carb Divaposted 21 months agoin reply to this

      I agree, that was my first thought as well (unless I'm totally misunderstanding). Will this be like what happened a few years ago with our header photo--a number of mine were edited by the HP staff to include text (and gosh, they were ugly). I redid those, finding what I thought were more suitable images, and then began to add that style to the rest of my articles. A few months ago we were told to remove those and have a cleaner appearance with no text on the images. (I have over 400 articles in one niche).

  3. Joshua Crowder profile image83
    Joshua Crowderposted 21 months ago

    Will we be linked to other writer's articles as well or just our own?

    1. Titia profile image94
      Titiaposted 21 months agoin reply to this

      I think the first. In my article about raising a bottlefed lamb I used the word cow milk and the word cow was linked to someone elses article about cows. Same in my article about cats. I mentioned a special color and the word was linked to a completely different article about cats. The latter was in my intro and I didn't like that readers  were send away from my article in the first few sentences, so I deleted that sentence.

      1. Shesabutterfly profile image97
        Shesabutterflyposted 21 months agoin reply to this

        I believe you are referencing a different link method they implemented a few months back.

        The linking to the word cow for example happens on multiple different articles for the first mention of the word and all those links go to the exact same article about cow names. The cow name article even has a link to itself.

        It's an automatic system and appears when the word/phrase matches one in the automated system. It is not something that is done by staff.

        If you referenced that same color farther down in your cat article, you'll likely see a link there since you removed the word in your intro.

    2. eugbug profile image96
      eugbugposted 21 months agoin reply to this

      I've checked several articles and it appears that other people's articles can appear in the related article list at the bottom of our articles (and vise versa). I notice on some Dengarden articles, instead of a list after the comments, the related articles appear as a grid after the "Recommended for you" ads.

  4. Carb Diva profile image100
    Carb Divaposted 21 months ago

    It would be nice of the interlinks could appear before the glut of ads. Who will really take the time to scroll past those to the content?

  5. eugbug profile image96
    eugbugposted 21 months ago

    Is there a reason why the inline links split up capsules just like ads? Is there no way of controlling placement?

    https://hubstatic.com/16504891.png

    1. chef-de-jour profile image99
      chef-de-jourposted 21 months agoin reply to this

      Oh dear, that looks awful. Yet another reason not to stay on a niche site for the average reader! Unbelievable.

      HP desperately need a Capsule Continuity Manager, someone who can code for a decent uninterrupted common sense read through of an article.

      1. eugbug profile image96
        eugbugposted 21 months agoin reply to this

        The code that places the links must be the same as that for ads. So basically it just looks for any HTML closing "p" tag and inserts at that location. I still don't understand why that can't be changed. Surely the editor can be changed so that it inserts dummy tags after modules and the ends of them can be identified? E.g. an "id" tag like what we used to have and allowed us to ad links to sections of a file for the purpose of creating a table of contents.

        1. Glenn Stok profile image94
          Glenn Stokposted 21 months agoin reply to this

          Those "id" tags on <DIV> statements were no longer present in the HTML when rendered on Maven. And The Arena Group is no better. That’s why our linked TOCs stopped working and had to be removed. So the only way the ad placement can work is between <p> tags, as you mentioned.

          If only they would put back those capsule identifiers we used to have under HubPages, they could use that for the ad placement code. But that takes extra programming that they don't seem to have the desire to do. Look how long it's taking to implement the GA4 code that Google keeps warning us about. It took me just five minutes to do that on my site.

          It's unfortunate that the ads appear so often, especially at the beginning before we had a chance to convince readers to continue. That might be why our traffic had dropped to 1/3 of what it used to be before The Arena Group took over.

          1. eugbug profile image96
            eugbugposted 21 months agoin reply to this

            Do you think there's any flexibility as regards the tags/other identifiers ads use to know where to position themselves? Maybe they can only position themselves at the end of paragraphs and there's no means of changing that.
            As regards technical people to do the work, it seems Hubpages are out on their own. If TAG was really interested in progress, they'd invest money in hiring people to do the coding or outsource it.

            1. Glenn Stok profile image94
              Glenn Stokposted 21 months agoin reply to this

              I don't see any flexibility Eugene. I looked at the code. Since Maven/TAG eliminated the <DIV id="mod_xxxxxxx"> there is no other identifier that signifies individiual capsules. The ad placement goes by the <P> tags so ads can appear between any paragraph.

              I tried using soft returns (which are two <BR/>) in my first few paragraphs in an effort to capture readers' interest before chasing them away with so many ads, but one editor keeps changing those back to hard returns because the double <BR> looks a little more spacy than regular paragraph spaces in the hubtool.

              However, the space is the same when rendered on TAG, so I know he was looking at it in the hubtool. Oh well. I never made it an issue though, because I know the editors are trying their best to help us.

  6. Miebakagh57 profile image75
    Miebakagh57posted 21 months ago

    I think the internal link must only led to another HubPages site, other than hubpages and discover.                                       This makes sense if readers are not diverted away from the network sites.

 
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