My Internal Linking Strategy From Post One

It is tempting to think internal linking is something you deal with once you have many posts. In practice, setting the structure early pays off far more.

Why early matters

The linking habits you form when you have fewer than 5 posts carry forward as the site grows to 100. Skip it early, and you end up retroactively linking dozens of old posts later.

Rules I actually follow

• Every new post links to at least 2 related existing posts
• Category pillar pages always link down to their sub-posts
• Anchor text uses the actual keyword, never generic phrases like “here”