Posts on Internal Linking.
4 posts tagged "Internal Linking".
The tag on 73 of 74 posts told me nothing about what relates to what.
Building a 'related posts' block surfaced a problem that had nothing to do with rendering: the tag on nearly every article carried no signal, and letting it count made everything related to everything.
The ultracode audit was clean. Google still hadn't found the pages. The fix was six in-body links.
Five legal pages and /stamp-duty-calculator were returning HTTP 200, index/follow, self-canonical — and still showing 'URL is unknown to Google' in Search Console. A multi-agent ultracode review ruled out every technical blocker. The answer was the link graph: footer-only pages don't get crawled.
Six YMYL pages were unknown to Google. The technical audit came back clean.
An ultracode review of five legal pages and the stamp duty calculator found no technical blockers — HTTP 200, correct directives, canonical self. The pages weren't stuck because of markup. They were stuck because Googlebot had no editorial reason to visit.
One audit finding, eight chapters: closing content-5 with a hub instead of inline links
The SEO audit said to retrofit inline links across seventy articles. I built a guide hub instead, and the link-graph problem stopped being about retrofitting and started being about new direction.