Internal linking is an important part of each blog and should be applied by all bloggers. Firstly, it increases the pageview s, ie it increases the number of pages per visitor . Now that people stay longer on your side to reduce the bounce rate of your blog very quickly. I had, for example, at the beginning of this blog a bounce rate of approximately 80%. The last few days I was able to reduce my bounce rate greatly, and am currently at 40%. Internal linking creates a kind of chain of theme-relevant contributions and thus captivates the reader, which can cause you can win a new regular readers. Use the Related Posts Plugin

That Related Posts Plugin is the easiest way to link together his posts. At the end of every post some more topics related posts are displayed automatically. The reader will be able to quickly discover interesting article. Click here for the plugin page.

Especially people who want to look at but a bit more interest for the page are interested in the most successful and popular posts, as they are more or less the figurehead Schilt of the respective bloggers. I personally think it makes sense to place this list directly into the sidebar so that the reader does not have to look far. Thus, the most popular items are also linked from any page. Click here for the plugin page.

Every time you write about something that has already been covered in an earlier post, you can link to it. I personally use this technique very much, and link whenever possible on older posts.

the archive feature of WordPress is indeed already been solved fairly well, but just is not to exceed a single page with all depending create posts. I have also a page for this archive created.

When a user enters a search and found no answer, you should not with a "Sorry, nothing found" message expel him. Also on the search result page, you can place links. For example, I have placed in me a list of the most popular items.

It may always be that someone typing error or an incorrect bookmark / link used to get to the page. But you should try again, the same people to steer in the right direction. How to make a useful 404 page created I have already described.

Another easy way to promote the linking is a series of articles, such as my Ultimate SEO Guide . The reader will read the first post and are interested in the other parts of the series to read. Thus, the reader will need to click on at least a second page.

Since I made these changes to my WordPress design and other items described note, as I write posts I could, as mentioned at the beginning of the article, greatly reduce the bounce rate of my visitors.

Are there any other important plugins / tactics that you can use to improve the internal linking?