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# What Is Internal Linking?

Internal linking connects pages within the same site using crawlable HTML links and descriptive anchor text.

## Why it matters

It helps users discover related explanations, distributes navigation context, and helps search systems understand hierarchy and relationships.

## How to use it

Link technical terms to evergreen definitions, guides to related methods, and product pages to installation or evidence. Keep links contextual and avoid repetitive keyword-heavy anchors.

## Limits and interpretation

Internal links cannot replace useful content or clear navigation. More links are not automatically better, and hidden or off-screen link blocks can be spam.

## Common mistakes

Orphan pages; generic “click here” anchors; linking every keyword occurrence; huge footers without hierarchy; JavaScript-only navigation.

## Questions people also ask

[How many internal links should a page have?](/faq/)[What is an orphan page?](/faq/)[Should glossary terms link from every mention?](/faq/)

## Where GSC Pulse fits

GSC Pulse uses this concept inside a decision workflow and links to the underlying evidence instead of presenting the term as a decorative metric.

[Primary documentation](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/links-crawlable)Source

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