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January 23, 2026

# Internal Linking Strategy for Beginners: The 5-Minute Primer

If you've never touched internal linking strategy before, here's the version without the jargon.

Internal links are the only link-building channel that's entirely under your control — no outreach, no cold email, no waiting on someone else's editorial calendar.

You don't need to understand everything about it on day one. Start with just this: link from your highest-authority pages (usually the homepage and top organic-traffic pages) down to newer or underperforming content that needs a boost.

The most common beginner mistake is skipping it entirely because it sounds technical. It usually isn't — internal linking strategy is one of those things that looks intimidating from the outside and takes ten minutes once you actually sit down with it.

Once this feels comfortable, structured data (schema markup) is a natural next thing to learn.

Internal Link Suggestion Tool is the fastest way to see it in action on a real page.

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