Internal Linking
The practice of connecting pages within the same website through hyperlinks that help people and crawlers discover and understand content.
A deliberate internal-link system improves navigation, distributes attention towards important pages, supports crawl discovery and connects related content to conversion journeys.
Every glossary entry links contextually to prerequisite and adjacent concepts, while hub pages provide crawlable HTML links to all canonical terms using descriptive anchor text.
Internal links do not guarantee indexing or ranking. Excessive, repetitive or misleading links can harm usability; JavaScript-only controls without crawlable href destinations may not be reliably extracted.
Crawlable internal links use anchor elements with href attributes and descriptive anchor text. Their placement, destination, hierarchy and consistency communicate relationships and create discovery paths through the site's information architecture.
Experience Design, Systems Architecture
Google Search Central — SEO link best practices — https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/links-crawlable; Google Search Central — SEO Starter Guide — https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/seo-starter-guide