How do I reduce the amount of internal links on my site?
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Hi,
Can someone help me with reducing the amount of internal links on our site please?
https://www.thepresentfinder.co.uk
Thanks
Charlie
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Hm. I just clicked through your campaigns, and I'm not seeing that showing up anywhere. Where in Moz Pro are you getting that notification?
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Hi Team,
It's something that Moz says as an insight to do....
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Hi Matt,
Moz is saying to reduce the amount of internal links?
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Most of your internal links come from the header menu and all the submenus under that. I agree with everyone else that this isn't something you need to do but if it is, consider using filters and parameter selection (for things like price, holiday/occasions, etc. )
But again ... why?
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Hi there! I have to say I agree with Dmitrii. What makes you think that this is something you need to do?
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Hi there.
Uhmm.. Why would you want to do it? If all links are relevant, "need" to be where they are and make sense to user - there is no reason to delete those. If you have some "internal link fishy scheme" going on or something, then yeah, you might want to. Simply delete links or restructure your website(I'd go with restructuring).
Hope this helps.
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