Learning outcomes
- Explain how to connect related pages with descriptive anchor text.
- Complete the guided practice safely.
- Check that you can help visitors and crawlers navigate.
SEO and Performance
Internal Linking
Learn to connect related pages with descriptive anchor text and help visitors and crawlers navigate in this beginner-friendly website development lesson.
Before you begin
Work on a practice copy, keep filenames lowercase and hyphenated, and create a backup before changing a live website.
Step-by-step instructions
- Open the relevant project page, file or WordPress screen and confirm you are working on a safe practice copy.
- Add three relevant internal links.
- Inspect the result using browser tools or WordPress Preview; do not publish yet.
- Check keyboard use, mobile layout, content accuracy, links, images and privacy where applicable.
- Confirm that you can help visitors and crawlers navigate, then save a clearly named version or backup.
Ian's practical tip: Preview first, test at desktop and mobile sizes, and keep a recoverable copy before publishing.
Practical activity
Add three relevant internal links. The expected result is to help visitors and crawlers navigate.