Can you get internal linking recommendations by asking chatgpt to crawl your website (deep search)?

Just tried this prompt from Reddit [link in comments] and it actually works 🤷‍♀️ I have no idea why!

—- the prompt—-

“You are an SEO expert specializing in internal linking strategies for local business websites. Your task is to analyze the internal pages of this website: [target website] and recommend new, contextually relevant internal links pointing to this target page:
Identify the source page URL.
2. ⁠Suggest anchor text that feels natural and is topically relevant.
3. ⁠Provide the exact sentence where the link can be added, or suggest a new sentence that could be inserted smoothly into the existing content.
4. ⁠Provide at least 20 internal link opportunities.

Target URL: [target page link]

Instructions:

Crawl all internal pages of the website, excluding navigation, footer, and sidebar content.

Find content where it would be natural and helpful to link to the target page.

Exclude any pages that already contain an in-content link to the target URL.

For each suggested internal link:
Output Format: Present your suggestions in a table with these columns:
• ⁠Source Page URL
• ⁠Anchor Text
• ⁠Sentence with Link Placement
• ⁠Exactly where in the text the sentence with the Link should be placed.
Make sure your recommendations follow best practices for internal linking: improve user navigation, reinforce topical authority, and support SEO for the target page.”


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