Should I Link To my Older Articles?
When I link to my own website (a previous article, written some months ago), Is it good or bad (In the perspective of a search engine)? And why?
This is a good practice both in the perspective of search engines and on that of your visitors.
Why?
It is good for search engines because it will increase the ways (i.e. the number of links) that they have to find the content on your website. Additionally, every time you link to one of your articles, you are also signaling to search engines that such article is important inside your website. The more internal links your article has, the higher the importance that it will have on the eyes of search engines (all other things being equal, obviously).
That is why the homepage is usually the most trusted page on any website, because all internet webpages link back to it.
Finally, this is also good for your search engine optimization because you will be able to use a specific anchor text on your links, and this is a factor used by the search algorithms to evaluate the content inside any web page.
Now this practice is also good in the perspective of your visitors because you will be providing them more information on a topic that they are already interested in (else they would not be reading your first post).
