On a news site, does it help in terms of SEO to link to other articles from within your own site's articles or is it just good for keeping visitors on the site?
Strong proofs? If every poster had to "prove" everything he/she posted, most people would leave the forums. But yes, internal linking is widely believed to be a positive, especially if the links are in the text, not just in the footer or sidebar. For one thing, it allows you to place varied and descriptive anchor text in links to your other pages. That alone is a significant benefit in helping the search engines decide what your various pages are all about. With well-researched keywords in those text links, you are in a sense in control and are "educating" the search engines concerning the primary message of your pages.
Nothing wrong if you link to the destinations which are truly more valuable to the users, Techcrunch and engadget are few example website, they often link with internal pages.
Yes.ofcourse! Internal linking is one of the good ways interms of SEO. It'll make search engine to find and crawl your pages more effectively...Also, by doing this, your internal pages will also get good pagerank and rank well in Google.
hi i personally think that internal linking helps a great deal in SEO links from your site to other articles can be an extremely effective way in gettng more visitors to your site and the linked article too hope this would help you buddy thanks, sripat