Internal linking query

I always link to other pages on my site that are relevant to each other, but have a query about it.

Say I have a Jessica Alba page, and I have some text that starts with 'Jessica Alba was born in bla bla', and I linked the 'Jessica Alba' text to this Jessica Alba page, the one the text appears on.

So instead of linking to another Jessica Alba page on your site you are linking to that very same page the text appears on.

Good or bad idea? Or just stick to linking to other pages on the site?

 

I'd just stick to what you were doing normally. If i was Google, I might ask why you're linking the document to the same document - it might look like a spammy attempt.

 

i think you would be ok maybe put a nofollow on the link to the same page

 

but if its no follow, what's point? As far as I know the guy is trying to reinforce to google what that page is about.

 

I always believed that it was a good idea to have every page accessable to ever other page within the site. Especially if your anchor text is keyword dense. I also believe that that kind of linking scheme is good for usability.

 

Yep, I do link to other relevant pages from every page, like if I have a Jessica Alba page I will link to other Jessica Alba pages too.

But my query was more to do with linking to the exact same document the link appears on.

 

Yep.

I'm wondering whether it would do any harm, I can see it being looked at kinda spammy as there is no need to link to the same document, but wanted to ask what other people thought.