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Having lots of high-quality links connecting your blog posts to each other helps you get better search engine rankings.
Problem: Digging out URLs for hyperlinks to your own posts and pages gets tedious and annoying once you have more than a few dozen articles.
Practical WordPress Tip: Use the “Edit Posts” page to copy the link address (URL) from the “View” link.
Here’s how:
- Using a new browser window or a separate tab, navigate to “Edit >> Posts”
- Search for the post you desire
- Right click the “View” link. Choose “Copy link address” to place the post’s permalink URL on your clipboard.
- Paste the link where you want it.
- Leave the “Edit Posts” page or tab open, repeat as necessary.
Why: This isn’t the only way to copy the URL. You could search your blog from the user side, and copy the URL out of the browser bar. But my way is much, much faster!
Here’s a screenshot with the “View” link right-clicked open:
Fast link to post URL
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I guess one advantage of searching from the user’s side using your own site search is the fact you might pull up reeeally old articles that could still be useful.
Depending on how many posts you’ve written on your blog, you might have forgotten about them, or they may just be lost in the fray of your edit posts page when you’re browsing for potential posts to link to.
That being said, I still do it the way you’ve outlined about too, but I might try the searching function and see where it leads me.
It would be interesting to see how larger blogs like ProBlogger.net or CopyBlogger pull up references to their own posts so consistently..
You have a good point.
This technique works best when I know pretty much what the article I’m looking for.
But as you say, pulling up a list of likely candidates can be useful.
I probably didn’t make it clear enough in the post, but I use the search box on the Edit Posts page quite a bit as well.
Best way that I know how to interlink, particularly if you have a blog network of multiple blogs, is to setup a Google Custom Search Engine that includes only your blogs. Very simple and effective way to find those pages to link out to or in from, across your entire blog network.
Using Google Custom Search explains how.
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@SI – Setting up a custom search engine sounds like a pretty good idea. I have a Lijit account, but I haven’t taken the time to implement that.
I sent you an email… would love to have a guest post from you on how to set up the system you describe.
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