I have a quick question - As background, I am currently re-architecting a website that's B2B-oriented, not consumer-oriented. We have tons of articles - over 150,000 in the online archives, and have just opened the site up to the public, instead of locking it down just to a small number of paid subscribers. Now that we've done that, we're netting 75,000 visitors per day and 135,000 uniques per month...
...in spite of having very few links. And I'm now insisting that our editors use them liberally with each story.
So the question I have: Is it better for Google ranking to have links embedded within the body of the articles, which takes a considerable effort and time of our editors, or to have related linkable items listed at the end (or side) of the article (easier for us to produce)? Does it even matter to the SEs where the links are?
Thanks for any thoughts that you might have on this.