Deep Linking

[popowich]

Do you make links in your site that link to other sections of your web site?

This is what I refer to as deep linking.

A good example of my deep linking is the new vinyl siding (http://www.discussny.com/showthread.php?t=2884) thread.

According to wikopedia my definition of deep linking seems incorrect.



This link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_linking is an example of a deep link. The URL contains all the information needed to point to a particular item, in this case the Wikipedia English article on deep linking, instead of the Wikipedia home page at http://www.wikipedia.org/.

The technology behind the World Wide Web, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), does not actually make any distinction between "deep" links and any other links—all links are functionally equal. This is intentional; one of the designed purposes of the Web is to allow authors to link to any published document on another site. The possibility of so-called "deep" linking is therefore built into the Web technology of HTTP and URLs by default—while a site can attempt to restrict deep links, to do so requires extra effort. According to the World Wide Web Consortium Technical Architecture Group, "any attempt to forbid the practice of deep linking is based on a misunderstanding of the technology, and threatens to undermine the functioning of the Web as a whole". One way to prevent deep linking is to configure the web server to check the referring URL using a Rewrite engine. [1]
Is there a more accurate term for what you often see me doing with my linking to other sections of the site?

Is it simply no more than a part of good SEM / SEO?

I believe it helps to keep visitors at your site once they have reached it and help them to find useful and related content.

Do you "deep" link? Why or why not?

-Raymond

[Big Dan]

I've always considered deep linking to be; Getting outside sites to link deeply into your domain

For instance instead of someone linking to www.discussny.com, someone linking to http://www.discussny.com/showthread.php?t=2885 would be better from an SEO prospective.

It tells spiders that specific page has good information and therefore other pages on the domain must have good info.

That's why when I buy blog posts (I hope Google didn't hear that) I always get deep links into certain forums, or even certain threads.

[Jim6763]

Do you make links in your site that link to other sections of your web site?

This is what I refer to as deep linking.

A good example of my deep linking is the new vinyl siding (http://www.discussny.com/showthread.php?t=2884) thread.

According to wikopedia my definition of deep linking seems incorrect.

Is there a more accurate term for what you often see me doing with my linking to other sections of the site?

Is it simply no more than a part of good SEM / SEO?

I believe it helps to keep visitors at your site once they have reached it and help them to find useful and related content.

Do you "deep" link? Why or why not?

-Raymond

Interesting. This never crossed my mind - definitely a good idea, nonetheless.

[Jim6763]

I was reading something about this in Wordpress, and this sounds similar to TrackBack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackback) and PingBack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingback) which I found on Wikipedia. There are other related terms on linked pages such as RefBack and LinkBack.

[Kaos]

I would define linking to other sections in here as "internal linking" which is ALWAYS good for SEO. No matter what kind of site you have its great to internally link content to other relevant pages IMHO. I do it on all my sites, there are many benefits to it.