# How aggressively do you interlink your forum content?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-aggressively-do-you-interlink-your-forum-content/74818
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [November 26, 2017, 5:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-aggressively-do-you-interlink-your-forum-content/74818 "2017-11-26T05:51:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2017, 5:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-aggressively-do-you-interlink-your-forum-content/74818/1 "2017-11-26T05:51:17Z")
Here’s is one interesting question, which seems a bit controversial to me.
Do I need to aggressively interlink my own content?
I’ve been noticing that people very often miss content related to what they read.
I know that the platform embeds a lot of links everywhere: at the bottom of a topic, in the “related topics” area, and in the beginning of a topic, listing other topics which links to it. However, it seems that people often miss / ignore those links.
The question is, should we invest any time in building links to our own content from our own content, just like wikipedia does?
Anyone has experience with interlinking? Please share your practice and observations.
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### Author:  [@maiki](https://meta.discourse.org/u/maiki)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2017, 6:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-aggressively-do-you-interlink-your-forum-content/74818/2 "2017-11-26T06:05:05Z")
I link to anything I think is relevant, everywhere. Not just my forums.
I write for the web, and any given piece of content can be processed in a variety of ways. Maybe RSS (I follow a lot of Discourse this way). Maybe email. I want to provide all the context I need. 🙂
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### Author:  [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2017, 10:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-aggressively-do-you-interlink-your-forum-content/74818/3 "2017-11-26T10:42:00Z")
I even have a canned reply to encourage users to link to that other post they are referring to:
> Hint: If you refer to some other post on this forum, it would be great if you could provide a link to that post.
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> The link will automatically be visible from both sides (i.e. there will also be a link back from the post you’re linking to). Those links will make it much easier for people to navigate the forum and find relevant information.
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### Author:  [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2017, 12:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-aggressively-do-you-interlink-your-forum-content/74818/4 "2017-11-26T12:23:42Z")
@tophee, thanks for the text example, I’ll translate to Ru and adapt to our community. Do you send it in PM, right?
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### Author:  [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2017, 1:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-aggressively-do-you-interlink-your-forum-content/74818/5 "2017-11-26T13:17:01Z")
Feel free to translate and modify at will. What are you asking about PM?
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### Author:  [@Sailsman63](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sailsman63)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2017, 2:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-aggressively-do-you-interlink-your-forum-content/74818/6 "2017-11-26T14:18:59Z")
I think he’s asking if you send it as a PM to the user you are dropping a hint to…
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-aggressively-do-you-interlink-your-forum-content/74818/7 "2017-11-26T21:56:25Z")
My strong recommendation is to interlink very aggressively any canonical content. Medium term we do plan to give additional search weight to topics with lots of internal links.
So, for example:
If someone asks “How do you make frogs jump”
And you have a topic that you want everyone to find: “The physics of frog jumping”
Always be sure to it from the new topic.
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### Author:  [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2018, 12:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-aggressively-do-you-interlink-your-forum-content/74818/8 "2018-06-23T12:06:54Z")
> [@meglio](#):
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> Do you send it in PM, right?
> [@Sailsman63](#):
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> I think he’s asking if you send it as a PM to the user you are dropping a hint to…
Sorry, I missed that: no, I usually post that publicly to facilitate learning by everyone. But, of course, it depends on your community. In some communities people may be offended if they are educated publicly. That’s why I try to make it sound like a useful hint rather than teaching.
> [@sam](#):
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> Medium term we do plan to give additional search weight to topics with lots of internal links.
Looking forward to that! What does “medium term” mean? Is this anywhere on the roadmap yet?
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### Author:  [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2018, 3:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-aggressively-do-you-interlink-your-forum-content/74818/9 "2018-09-04T15:32:00Z")
> [@tophee](#):
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> Looking forward to that! What does “medium term” mean? Is this anywhere on the roadmap yet?
Right now it is planned for v2.2 in #releases