Just a bit of a quick post as I have found a couple of really nice ways to increase the cross linkage / passing of link juice between posts on a Wordpress blog. On one of my blogs all the posts in one particular category have stopped ranking at all. When I thought about it, I realised the cross linkage between the posts was dire. Todays exciting project was therefore to try and find some different ways to make sure my posts are “seen” by Google!

As usual there are a some plugins that I can recommend for this task (where was I before they invented Wordpress plugins, eh?): -

Similar Posts by Rob Marsh - I’ve recommended this one before in my Wordpress 102 post, however I think it is worth mentioning again. It really is a very clever wee tool and has lots of different matching perameters to display any number of posts containing similar content.

Dagon Design’s Sitemap Plugin - This isn’t a plugin for a XML sitemap that only Google will see. Rather it will generate a page or pages containing lists of all your posts by category. It has an option that lets you choose the number of links per page, how all the pages link to each other, and what order links are displayed in. It is disgustingly easy to use. Just create a page, pop in a bit of code, and Boof!! - a sitemap. Nice work lads.

I also had a bit of a gander through the Wordpress Codex (great bedtime reading guys) and discovered a handy dandy wee bit of code you can pop in to create “next” and “previous” links at the bottom of all posts. I can’t code to save myself, but I’m a demon cut and paster. Love it!

I also read a blog article on ways to improve your cross linkage and thought it was a good checklist. Worth a read, and definately worth actioning some or all of the points in the article.