Build More Links With a Deep Linking Strategy
Any SEO consultant will tell you that setting links is one of the most important tasks undertaken to improve search page rankings. As each link pointed towards your page is essentially a “vote” for your page, the more of these you can set – especially from highly ranked pages with high traffic – the better your placement on the search engine results will be.
There are many ways to set those links however, and some methods have proven highly effective in both directing new reader traffic your way, but also in improving your placement on search results. Setting these links either in blog comments or articles marketed to directories and other blog sites requires some thought. Most SEO efforts focus on setting links to the main landing page, but miss huge opportunities to focus link attention elsewhere in their web environment.
“Deep Linking” Web environments are usually comprised of several pages, including the main landing page as well as other detail pages. Organizations will frequently include product pages or pages that are dedicated to a specific product group or family. Optimizing the product page for a unique set of keywords and terms related to the product can attract additional traffic from the internet search engines. Linking directly to these pages is termed a ‘deep link.’
A company selling motor scooter parts might have a product line for accessory items like helmets or ‘scooter’ clothing. A web page within the scooter web environment might highlight these items on a separate product page. This product page could be optimized for ‘scooter helmets’ or other specific terms, leaving the main page to focus on bigger terms – something like ‘scooter parts in Seattle.’
Advantages of Deep Linking Many site owners focus only on the main web page. Deep linking or setting links to the product page can offer many additional opportunities to build traffic and reach potential customers. The search engines will also begin cataloguing your pages individually. Search engines seem to like sites that provide a significant volume of detail in several different pages. Deep linking to the product pages help the search engines understand what that page is about and in the end benefits the site owner by earning good placement on search results.
The web owner can also highlight additional keyword phrases and use content directly related to the specific product page. Newer organizations sometimes choose a small product niche, exploit it with a well optimized product page to generate some traffic and web strength, and then turn attention to optimizing the main page for more competitive terms. This is a reverse methodology, but has been known to work in some instances.
Setting Anchor Text for a Deep Link Building traffic to a specific product page is no different than the standard SEO effort. Identify meaningful keywords, optimize the page for those keywords in the title and keyword strings, and then generate external link strength. Keywords for specific product pages will be significantly different from the main landing page. As all web page titles should be different anyway, this has to be done anyway. Then simply set your keywords in the keyword file and base your page headers using those keywords as well.
Mirroring the selected keywords and phrases – or setting properly labeled anchor text – is extremely important here. As blog and article links are set, the keywords for your product page should appear as the ‘clickable link’ back to your page. A page titled “motor scooter helmets” would be linked in blog posts or articles using the anchor text “motor scooter helmets.” Search engines then are fairly confident that the page is in fact directly related to motor scooter helmets.
Linking directly to the product pages is an important aspect of effective Search Engine Optimization. Most article posting sites allow the author to set a link or two within the text or within an author’s box. When others publish your page, they also publish your links, so article distribution can greatly enhance the number of links out in the universe that point to places on your website. One has to be a bit creative about wording and working in the anchor text to the content of a blog post or article. But once done, those deep links can generate significant traffic and sales over time.
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