Can internal links boost SEO?

[Vash]

If dofollow links pass down "juice", then wouldn't a link to another page of your own web site get some of those "juice" too?

Can internal links on your own web site boost SEO for your own pages?

[kornee]

Interesting question. Perhaps not. Maybe search engine nowadays recognize now what's internal links and what's not.

[Victor Leigh]

I think this juice thing has some connection with the ip of your links. If your links come from the same ip that they are pointing to, then I don't think the search engines would pay much attention to them. Meaning they may not have any value as far as SEO is concerned. If you want to create links from your own sites, then it would be a better idea to have all your sites hosted on different ips.

[endirio]

I don't think so. Google's algorithms are pretty strict and they would never let you do something like that. Imagine if every website could just create false backlinks back in forth just by puttin a thousand url's on its own page. That would not end well.

[FreeWebsites]

Good internal linking is a must for doing proper SEO. That's why even the internal pages have their own pagerank . It also helps the spiders to crawl the site better and therefore index your pages. That + deep linkbuilding is the foundation of the SEO

[Vash]

I don't think so. Google's algorithms are pretty strict and they would never let you do something like that. Imagine if every website could just create false backlinks back in forth just by puttin a thousand url's on its own page. That would not end well.

Yeah but two-way links don't hold much water any more. So you can do "back and forth" type of link building and expect results.
Not to mention that people all say you have to have backlinks from high page rank pages in order to have some "juice" from them. If you are doing back and forth link building on your own site, I am sure your site can't be that good in SEO, or you won't need it. :P Since that is the case, the site's pages might all have low (something like PR 0), wouldn't backlinks from these PR 0 pages useless anyway?

[MyDigitalpoint]

However internal links contribute to get your site listed in a better and more organized way. Even having internal search capabilities within Google main page.

I guess you have seen how a regular site listed on top of the search results. Let's take as in example the word "dynamic."

First result is Dynamic Funds, which by the way IS NOT a dot COM domain, showing that domain extension don't really matter:

https://www.google.com/search?ix=sea...TF-8&q=dynamic

Now let's look for "dynamic drive" and see how a well-structured internal links set up returns this:

https://www.google.com/search?ix=sea...w=1024&bih=651

I left intentionally the full URLs so you can the SERP factor in the address bar that Google adds to the last query.

[Parker]

Good internal linking is a must for doing proper SEO. That's why even the internal pages have their own pagerank . It also helps the spiders to crawl the site better and therefore index your pages. That + deep linkbuilding is the foundation of the SEO

This is correct. Internal linking is very important for good SEO. Internal linking and a site map are a one-two punch.

[sillylucy]

I don't think internal links are going to boost your SEO all of that much. The best way is to backlink on another site. Do you have other sites you can link your work back to? Try link swapping with another site.

[Vash]

I don't think internal links are going to boost your SEO all of that much. The best way is to backlink on another site. Do you have other sites you can link your work back to? Try link swapping with another site.

Two-way links don't work any more. Google would immediately know it is a link exchange, and they don't take this kind of backlinks seriously at all. You won't get any "juice" from it.