AJAX Internal Linking Technique Question

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by betatype, Jun 26, 2008.

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    I have a question about an internal linking technique that I recently noticed was being used at http://www.workingperson.com. That site has placed an AJAX footer at the bottom of their pages (scroll down and click on the blue arrow next to 'Product Directory') that essentially links up all of their product subcategories on every page of the site, giving them ~20,000 internal links with optimized anchor text for each page that it links to.

    The search engines seem to be picking this up (even though its contained in JS) and the site shows up for almost every longtail keyword they target, as well as having all of their product pages indexed (something my site is sorely missing).

    I would like to hear opinions on this technique as i am hoping to use it on my own sites. One of my sites uses the same product setup as Working Person so it would be ideal, but another site has more of a flat directory structure. Would it hurt my site if I linked to each of my individual products in that footer?
     
    betatype, Jun 26, 2008 IP
  2. poseidon

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    actually its not ajax call but simple div/js call on the same page(more importantly, the links are not js links). Ofcourse they must be using php first to create that list of directory. Its perfectly fine and you too can use it. Though do note that this will spread the link juice to more pages (with so many links on every page). Ideally you want to build a chain, A-> B -> C ->D ...rather All linking to each other.

    Are you sure, that is it internal linking which is making their pages ranking high for all the keywords ? because I am not :)
     
    poseidon, Jun 27, 2008 IP