Make it better1 min read
Guide visitors through my site
A visitor rarely lands on your homepage and walk through in order - they arrive on a page, read it, and either find a next step or leave. Internal links are that next step, and they also tell Google and AI assistants how your site hangs together. On a bernard-hosted site, your AI can add them for you.
The prompt
“Look at how my pages link together and add sensible next steps - from each page, point people to the obvious place to go next (e.g. from a painting to how to commission one). Show me the links you’d add before changing anything.”
Signed in, Get my prompt fills in your site for you. Otherwise press Copy and fill in the [bracketed] parts. First time? Connect your AI to bernard once: Use your own AI (opens in a new tab).
How it works
- Connect bernard to your AI (once). Log in to bernard, open your site, go to Use your own AI, and paste the setup prompt into your AI to connect it - a one-time setup.
- Paste it into your AI - ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, whichever you already use - then ask in your own words, or use the prompt below.
- Approve. The AI shows you the links it would add and where. Check they make sense, press Approve, and they’re live.
Aim for one clear next step per page, not a scattering - from the work to how to buy it, from a post to a related one. The most important next step of all is letting people reach you, so make sure you also Make it obvious how to reach me.
Questions people ask
- Why should my website pages link to each other?
- A visitor who reaches the end of a page needs somewhere to go, or they leave. Internal links guide them on - and they help Google and AI assistants understand how your site fits together. Your AI can add them on a bernard site, and you approve each one on a preview.
- Won’t too many links be confusing?
- One clear next step per page beats a scattering of links. Ask your AI to add only the sensible ones, and check them on the preview before you approve.