Internal Linking

In a nutshell, what constitutes good internal linking?

[ortelius]

I hear and read a lot of different things about internal linking on a site, but I'm still a bit fuzzy on what is the best practice. From a good SEO point of view, what is the optimum internal linking strategy? I have read that each page of a site should have at least 2 or 3 internal links pointing to it. True or false? I've also heard that it's good to have plenty of internal links pointing to the home page. True or false?
Thanks,
Ortelius

[sugarrae]

From a good SEO point of view, what is the optimum internal linking strategy

I've always designed my sites internal linking with the user, and not the engine, in mind for basics, though I will take into account what keywords I'd like the internal pages to rank for when assigning internal anchor. But again, the first thought I have when designing internal navigation is usability. That said, my one standard is using absolute linking (as opposed to relative).

[ulijonroth]

Let me give you an example.

You have a site to be indexed with the keywords guitar picks.

You can make inbound links with many choices but I prefer this one.

Guitar Picks Catalogue (Link Name)
guitar_picks_cat.htm (The Page Address) or vice versa.

The more you use the keywords within the links facts success will be closer to you...

[edacsac]

I'm still trying to digest the idea of internal linking myself, but wouldn't the idea of a thorough navigation section thats available on every page (included in a header page) completely take care of internal linking?

[abbeyvet]

Not really.

Suppose you have 2 articles on your site, one about "using green widgets" and one about "modifications for green widgets", it might well be useful to link from one to the other within the text of each article.

[Purva]

One questions, sort of related to this topic. In backlinks my own URL with differenct pages show. Many, many of them. What does it indicate? Is it a good sign or bad?