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What is up, everybody?

Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 152 of Ask Pat.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

As always, happy to be here to help you by answering your online business blogging, entrepreneurship, podcasting, startup, all those types of questions five days a week.

And today we have another great question from Kim. But before we get to that, I do want to thank

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Hey Pat. Kim Franklin from San Diego. I have a blog called TrashyCrafter.com, and essentially I take old

damaged library books and roll them into beads and sell jewelry. I have an Etsy shop as well as a blog.

And what I'm trying to do now is focus on SEO so I can get more traffic to both my blog and my Etsy shop.

The thing I'm really, really struggling with lately is I'm trying to figure out what's better.

Is it better to do internal links to the products that I post within my pages on my site?

Or is it better to do external links to my Etsy shop? I want to try to

get the most amount of traffic for the SEO tactics that I use. I just don't know if internal

or external links are better, especially with all the Google updates and algorithms. I don't

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