Why internal links are often overlooked
Internal links are one of the underestimated building blocks of a website. They guide visitors from one page to the next, for example from general service text to a matching subpage or from a blog post to a thematically related page. For search engines, internal links also signal which pages belong together and how important individual content is within the website.
In practice, typical mistakes occur here. Links are set when creating text and then never touched again – even when pages change or disappear. The result is links that lead nowhere because the target page no longer exists or has been renamed. Another mistake is the opposite: text without any internal links, even though suitable target pages would exist. Especially on larger websites with many subpages – such as service or location pages – linking quickly becomes tedious work that falls by the wayside in everyday operations.
What matters is fundamentally simple: links should be placed in body text at points where they provide added value to the reader, and they should actually point to existing pages. Both can only be reliably ensured if setting and checking links doesn't have to be repeated manually with every text change.