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Benefit: Deep linking your articles within your website creates value for readers, and in turn helps you get better search results.
Problem: When deep linking internally in your blog, it can be difficult to find article you need, and to get both the title and the URL of the articles in an easy cut-and-paste form.
Practical WordPress Tip: Use a Sitemap listing articles linked by titles.
Here’s how in 3 simple steps:
- Install the Dagon Sitemap Generator Plugin.
- Follow the instructions and create a Sitemap page.
- When you are deep linking internally in your posts, open the Sitemap page. You will have both the blog post title, and you can right-click to copy the blog post URL.
Why: Creating well-structured blog posts is tedious, and requires quite a bit of time. Every tip or trick you can use to minimize the time to find desired articles allows you to build more links faster, and have more fun doing it! Here’s the Website In A Weekend Sitemap for example.
Note: You do not have to display the Sitemap page in a menu. When you creating deep links, it takes very little time to open the sitemap page directly. Then, just leave it open until you’re finished.
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10 Ways to Link to Comments – Keep the discussion rolling!
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Commenting is on other people’s blog is fun, and it’s great when people comment on your blog too. It turns out that many WordPress themes provide a permalink allowing you to link directly to a comment.
This is really cool. It’s so cool, I even wrote Practical WordPress Tip #19.
The upshot: continue your discussions forward by backlinking to existing comments.
Each theme and commenting system has a slightly different method for presenting the permalink to each comment. Some themes, unfortunately, don’t have this capability. Here’s how comment permalinks work in a few themes and commenting systems you may be familiar with.
1. Three Column Red theme
2. Disqus-based blogs
3. Atahualpa theme
4. Thesis Theme
5. Intense Debate system
6. Kelly Diel’s Custom Theme
7. Theme name
It’s not hard, give it a shot.
8. Theme name
Think about it: your link and screenshot right here.
9. Theme name
Backlinks are cool, really.
10. Theme name
It’s ok to be last.
Who’s in?
Let’s have
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