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You want readers to start on your home page--then delve deeper into the site. To do this, create lots of internal linking throughout your site.

• Remember: Putting external links on the home page only help readers leave your site! Instead, create links to all pages in your wiki.
  
  

• Embed links to relevant subpages within large blocks of text. Not only does it help break up long passages, but it tells readers that there is more information to explore. For an example from the Da Vinci Code wiki, click here.
  
  

• Consider putting a "See also" or "For more information" footer at the bottom of a page to point readers to related pages on your wiki. For example:

See also: Organization