Both internal and inbound links are important parts of SEO. However, they aren’t the same and it’s important to understand the difference between them. Internal links are located within your website and link from one page on your site to another on your site. For example, you might have a link to a “contact us” page on your homepage. That is considered an internal link. An inbound link, or external link, is a link located on another website that points to your web page. An example of an inbound link is an industry specific directory website that has a link to your company page.
Internal and inbound links each serve different important purposes. If a relevant, high quality and well respected website is linking to your website, you are respected by association. The search engines assume that your website is legitimate and applicable to the content. This is why it’s important to engage in link building activities such as article writing, press release distribution, blog writing and commenting, and social networking. It’s not easy to get these links and it often takes time and effort. It’s also important to note that the links shouldn’t all be coming from one source or built up too quickly. The search engines can easily consider a website build with those strategies to be spam and won’t rank them well.
Internal linking structure is just as important. Internal links should be set up in a way that makes it easy for a user to navigate your site. Remember, the goal of a website is to get conversions. Set up your pages and your internal links with that in mind. While inbound links may carry more weight overall with the search engines, internal links are also judged and can contribute to ranking.
It’s best to think long term when it comes to both internal and inbound link building. The links should grow with time and be diverse, a good combination of quality inbound and relevant internal. By implementing this strategy, you should see an improvement in your search engine ranking.
Internal links are referred to the links added from content of the website's internal pages, e.g. the content of about us page may have link to product page you sell. In other words, you are cross linking your website pages from content of the pages. If you open any page of Wikipedia, you can notice many links are available on the page links to other pages of Wikipedia. This website is a great example of building internal links.
Inbound links are those links that you get from others' websites, e.g. I own a website domain.com and on a page of this website, I've added a link pointing to your website. this will be called inbound link. There are also known as Backlinks, Inward Links, etc. To know more about this, you can refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backlink
Inbound - Come from other websites linking to you.
Internal - Links content within a website. Usually created by yourself
Example - A text saying 'Contact' and linking to your contact page is an internal link
internal links are within website link,
outbound links are link other website with our website.
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