Internal blog links

I know that internal blog links are good for both SEO and navigation alike, but how much is too much?

I usually do 400-550 word articles and currently cap my links off at 3 per article. Is that too much, too little, or about right? Once I get more articles written for my blog, it'll be increasingly harder to keep this amount at 3, so I decided to ask before I did anything.

Or are there any rules in SEO at all about this?

 

I do my posts as long as it takes. Sometimes they are very long, and there are internal links all through out them, especially on THU, and FRI.
I don't think its bad. In my case it is necessary.
I have as many as 15 on week end post.
I don't think you have anything to worry about.

I don't count things like that. I do what is necessary for the integrity of the content .
Good content and information first, and if I can do all of the SEO word counting, and link staggering and such, then I throw it in when i can, but my first concern is for the people reading.

If I never get PR, but I can do a few thousand a day, so be it.
Works out fine so far.

 

i think the questions was about internal linking. how many links... not article length...but i may be wrong...

 

Oh, a little bit of both.

I don't want Google to penalize me for linking to my own site too many times!

 

You should be fine. Why are you linking to other articles? SEO purposes? I'd only worry about linking to other articles you've written if you want your readers to see them, not the SE's. Write your blog for your audience, not some search engine.

 

I still say, create from the stand point of the user's experience, and you will be OK.
If you are so scared to create that you are constantly counting links, and words, and keywords, and bold, and tags and such. you will create what any robot could.
Content, design and functionality first, the rest will naturally fall into place.
JMO

 

LOL. Must have been reading each others mind.

 

Content always comes first, I don't intentionally add keywords or anything. I'm just looking to link my articles together both for readers, and for better crawling of my site. (navigation on blogs can be a little...different.)

I'll just stick with around 3 then

 

I'll make one suggestion to you . . . lose the Digg button. There is nothing that looks worse then a blog with digg buttons on every post with 0 diggs. Lose them and gain some credibility. Hope that helps!

 

Haha, thanks.

The thing is, I'm not planning on advertising my blog for a good amount of time- I'm building content. When the time comes, I plan on buying a few hundred diggs for the few hundred articles I will have.

Is it still a bad idea to have digg buttons when you have more than just a few? I can enable the option to hide the digg button's count if it is less than one

 

You can't buy diggs. Its not that easy. I'd hide them all.

 

Are you sure? There are many DP users that trade and sell/buy them a lot!

If it would end up giving me a penalty, I would understand.

I'll hide them- thanks for the suggestion.

 

If you can successfully sell/buy/trade in order to get a substantial amount of diggs to gain any kind of traction for a post, please share with me and the rest of us once you've done so. Digg's special formula for which stories become popular isn't easily manipulated.

 

I see.

Thanks for the good information. I removed the Digg links for now

 

No problem! Glad I could help.

 

Why would you buy Diggs?
If you create and interesting and informative article, you will get them for free, and you will get REAL traffic, REAL visitors, and REAL subscribers.
I don't understand the concept of paying for something that is not coming naturally.
Wouldn't that tell you to work on content?

It's like paying a tow truck to pull your car 80mph's, instead of just tuning up the engine.

 

I didn't know how many people actually digg an article they actually liked.

I won't buy diggs after all. Might trade one or two to get articles started in the future

 

diggs are about volume of diggs + the right time = populartity. There may be other factors involved but is generally part of it. Content is key. The number of articles with separate links won't go unnoticed by the crawlers and the content of your articles won't go unnoticed by your actual readers. I'm starting out too and that is what i'm going with. The rest like making money does sell itself.