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How to Prioritize Pages for Internal Linking with LinkStorm

Learn how to use Priority Pages to ensure your most important pages (services, products, landing pages) receive more internal link suggestions from LinkStorm.

Updated over 2 weeks ago

The Priority Pages feature lets you tell LinkStorm which pages on your site matter most as link targets, for example, service pages, product pages, or landing pages. Once marked, these pages receive a boost in the opportunity generation algorithm, so LinkStorm surfaces more incoming link suggestions for them even when their content produces lower similarity scores against blog posts.

Why Priority Pages exist

LinkStorm's AI measures how relevant two pages are by comparing their content. In practice, commercial pages (services, products, pricing) tend to have shorter, more generic content than blog articles, which means the algorithm may rank a blog post higher than the exact service page on the same topic.

Priority Pages solve this by adjusting the algorithm specifically for pages you've flagged:

  • The relevance threshold is lowered, so weaker-but-still-relevant matches are included.

  • The number of candidate results is increased, so more blog posts and articles are checked as potential sources.

The result: your high-value pages receive significantly more internal link suggestions pointing to them.

How to configure Priority Pages

You can configure Priority Pages in two places:

During website setup (recommended)

When adding a new website, the setup wizard includes a Priority Pages step (step 3 of 4). LinkStorm automatically shows the directory structure discovered from your sitemap. Tick the folders that correspond to your most important pages (e.g., /services/, /products/).

You can also type custom patterns directly in the text area below the directory list (one pattern per line). Click Save & Continue when done, or Skip to set this up later.

In website Settings

  1. Go to your website's Settings page.

  2. Click Priority Pages.

  3. Type a URL pattern in the input field and click Add.

โš ๏ธ Changes take effect after the next crawl cycle. The algorithm will re-evaluate pages marked as priority during the next opportunity computation.

Pattern syntax

Priority Page patterns use the same glob syntax as URL Exclusions. Use * as a wildcard matched against the page URL.

Pattern

What it prioritizes

/services/*

All pages under /services/

/products/*

All pages under /products/

/pricing

The exact /pricing page only

/landing-*

Any page whose path starts with /landing-

store.example.com/products/*

Product pages on a subdomain

Limits

  • Maximum 50 patterns per website

Next steps

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