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External links arrive where the content earned them — usually the useful, citable pages — but the pages that convert are the commercial ones; internal links are the delivery route between the two, and sites that leave it to chance strand most of their earned equity on pages that don’t sell anything. The mechanics: links pass value along the graph, weighted by the number of links on the source page (a link among ten shares more than one among a hundred), by click depth (three clicks from the homepage beats eight), and by the anchor’s description.
The working playbook: map the flow — which pages hold external equity (the backlink report sorted by page), which pages need it (the target list); connect them with deliberate internal links from relevant context (the guide’s method section linking the tool it describes, the glossary entry linking the service that implements it); keep the paths short — commercial pages within three clicks of the strong pages; and use descriptive anchors, because internal anchors are the one place keyword-bearing text is honest.
The maintenance is structural: new content launches with links from relevant existing pages (never orphaned), high-authority pages are audited for what they could legitimately support, and the orphan check runs quarterly — pages with no inbound internal links are invisible to the distribution system whatever their quality. The compounding effect is the point: every placement, every earned link, every asset page becomes a donor to the pages that pay the bills — the campaign buys the electricity; the internal architecture decides which rooms get lit.
See also: Internal linking architecture, Pillar pages and topic clusters, Keyword-to-page mapping.
Related service: Link building strategy.
