A reference to another webpage that the user can follow (click on) to access that document.
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Problem with not found page for feed in Google Webmaster Tools
I have a Wordpress blog. In Google Webmaster Tools, I found mutiple "not found pages" like this from feed: kart-postal/k-imam-zaman/feed/.
How can I add noindex to feed and why I get not found page?
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1answer
23 views
Featured Links/Blogroll (irrelevant links) in a blog is good or bad for SEO?
While I’m checking my websites’ back links using backlink watch tool I saw so many backlinks are from Blogspots where my links are placed under the category featured Links.
The main problem is my web ...
6
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2answers
314 views
Why do hackers inject hidden links?
I discovered a hacked site recently which has a div in it with a bunch of links to casinos at the top and the div is display:none;.
I understand that black hats may hack sites in order to gain ...
3
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1answer
38 views
Internal Link building strategy [duplicate]
I am having a few concerns about the best possible link building strategy for a large webshop.
The category structure is something like this:
www.site.com
www.site.com/whitegoods
...
6
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1answer
72 views
Test if Google+ is already with my Website
How can I verify or check if a website is already linked with Google plus?
I already added <link href="https://plus.google.com/{+PageIdGoesHere}" rel="publisher" /> this to my head tag of my ...
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0answers
15 views
Best links architecture for items under sections and categories? [duplicate]
Let's imagine a website with items organized by sections and categories, with those examples values:
Sections (articles, threads, events, directory)
http://www.domain.com/section-name/
Display all ...
0
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3answers
203 views
How can I pass referrer header from my https domain to http domains?
My website is 100% https. I have links to other http domains. The referrer header is not set when linking from a https page to a http page. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referrer
If a ...
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2answers
70 views
SEO impact of links for javascript functionality
For example, jQuery tabs uses a link as each tab, that opens the tabbed content. Or often times developers will use a link as the anchor text for a hover tooltip, even though it doesn't actually link ...
0
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2answers
52 views
H1 Tags and Anchor Text [duplicate]
I am building an image based website with no text space available on the Home Page. Can I turn the main Nav Menu links into H1 tags too? Will the site be punished by Search Engines from an SEO point ...
0
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1answer
39 views
Google pagerank calculation
I know this might be a stupid question, but I have recently heard, that google pagerank takes into account links from my sites to big pages, ie.: when I link to big sites, my site get more pagerank. ...
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1answer
47 views
How to make Google index files retrieved from database?
We use Joomla with Remository to store and manage publications (don't ask me why). Files (PDF) are stored in a database and can be accessed via dynamic, rewritten links of the form
...
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2answers
47 views
Pros and Cons of tabular format with one link and hidden divs vs. different links [closed]
I'm trying to decide the right hierarchy for a website with multiple pages per entity. Each page has the basic general information, and goes deeper according to selected 'tab'.
Two options I'm ...
0
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1answer
39 views
Consequence of redirecting ALL 404s on a site
I've just gone through my sites 404 list and redirected all of them to the front page.
There were in general 2 categories of links. The first was relative links of client sites which we may have ...
0
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1answer
75 views
Email containing links of a website is landing in SPAM
I am using sendgrid SMTP Server to send the e-mails from my java web application. The issue is the any e-mail containing external links to a one website and images are going to spam.
If i remove the ...
0
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1answer
57 views
Guest Post Opportunities - To Post or Not to Post
I have a modest blog with a PageRank of 2 which I have been writing myself for the past couple of years. Recently I received a request that someone wanted to write a guest post on my blog ... with a ...
0
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0answers
11 views
Why are the rankings of my webpage down on single phrase? [duplicate]
One webpage used to rank better in search. It had more visibility and had site links.
But in the last few days, it is down three position on one phase, and it no longer has site links.
What caused ...
0
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2answers
32 views
Link goes to specific location of page
What makes the user go to a specific location on a new html page? Not the current page. For example, when you click this link, you don't end up starting at the top like you normally would.
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2
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1answer
67 views
Need advice on best strategy for removing these bad links
new to Stack Exchange so forgive me if im in the wrong place.
Heres the scenario...
We recently took on a new client who's previous seo company had partaken in some dodgy link building tactics.
They ...
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1answer
35 views
is it legal to use links from an established website to identify unique content?
Not sure if this is a good place to ask, but maybe someone here can point me in the right direction...
If I wanted to make a commercial, directory type website (where users can enter content) and in ...
6
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1answer
105 views
What are the implications of one site having thousands of links to yours?
Using Webmaster I can see the home page of a related site has 100,000 + links to my site. I assume this is because there are tons of pages on this site and a link to our site is in the footer.
My ...
1
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2answers
63 views
Workaround a huge number of image links on a page? [SEO]
I have a page that often contains large image galleries displayed with thumbnails linking to the actual images. They are then rerouted with JavaScript to open an overlay gallery instead, but I noticed ...
0
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2answers
135 views
Fake Links Cause Crawl Error In Google Webmaster Tools
Google reported Crawl Errors last week on my largest site though Webmaster Tools. Here is the message:
Google detected a significant increase in the number of URLs that
return a 404 (Page ...
6
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2answers
77 views
What kind of redirect (301 or 302) for an email links tracker?
We are developing an email sending application ("à la" Mailchimp). Hyperlinks inserted by our users, in the emails they want to send, are replaced by a tracking URL on our application ...
4
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2answers
114 views
Symbolic link of file on ftp server to file on dropbox
Can I create a symbolic link from an ftp server (file on website) to a Dropbox URL? I'm trying and it's seeming to work correctly. My problem is a video isn't playing correctly on my site, but I know ...
2
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1answer
77 views
Is there a spider / link checker that can start deep inside a login-protected site
We use vendor hosted Blackboard for our distance education courses, but host course multimedia on our own servers. The multimedia server has been moved and the domain has changed. Blackboard DBAs have ...
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2answers
82 views
Can a CMS be installed in a central location to be used by multiple sites? [closed]
These days I have to develop a lot of websites where each is based on a certain CMS, ie. Wordpress, Drupal or Joomla. Instead of always copying the files of each CMS to my project folder, is it ...
1
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1answer
84 views
Does Link Target using “Blank” cause increased bounce rate in analytics report?
I am just wondering whether it is so and when I should use target="_blank" and when not? I used to use target="_blank" for most of the links of my site and in few places on net, I found people talking ...
2
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1answer
114 views
Google Analytics: Track user from opening email to following link to finishing form
We track the opening of our marketing emails by using the utm.gif image which works well. But, we would like to see how many users go from opening the email, to clicking a link within the email and ...
1
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2answers
62 views
Text contents as links
This page on my website (Arabic) contain Verses of Quran. Every word of the verse is linked to the search page to perform a search for this word in the Quran. (the first four words are highlighted by ...
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1answer
57 views
How can I avoid a classifieds site network as being labled as a link farm?
I have a local classifieds website. We started as one, and now we want to open it up to the surrounding communities. Here is how we currently have it structured. There are 3 domains:
classifieds1.com
...
9
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2answers
342 views
Is <a href=“#”>link</a> a broken link?
When using empty URL fragment links, to send a user to the top of the page (e.g. <a href="#">return to top</a>), are these links considered broken or invalid? One of my tools is returning ...
6
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1answer
176 views
Detecting whether banner ads pass link juice
I wanted to determine the relative SEO value of the advertising links passed by this website: http://www.garden.org/
On the right side you'll notice several advertising banners that, when clicked, ...
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1answer
114 views
Legality of screenshot of another website
I wanted to write a blog post about a common feature of some popular websites. To illustrate, I'll need to take screenshot, crop and shows the specific features that's I'm referring to.
I wonder if ...
0
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1answer
51 views
Is this a link scheme? If so, what to do? what problems can i face?
I was asked to remodel a website, and decided to check its rank on alexa. Surprisingly, there are many, many different websites linking to it, none relevant.
One particular thing about it is that ...
2
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2answers
124 views
Multiple links on a webpage pointing to the same URL
Does having multiple links on a webpage pointing to same internal URL impact your PR negatively? Would it look spammy or will the repeated links just be ignored?
2
votes
2answers
286 views
HTML favicon wont show on google chrome
I am making a HTML page that is unpublished and that I just started. The first thing I wanted to do was add a favicon to appear next to the title. I'm using google chrome and I noticed that other ...
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0answers
70 views
Web master tools is throwing out 404 errors on link not on page
Webmaster tools is showing thousands of 404 errors, where pages on the site are referring to another incorrect url. For example, URL not found www.plantify.co.uk/shop/=, linked from ...
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0answers
13 views
How important are SEO Friendly URLs [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is a URL with a query string better or worse for SEO then one without one?
Currently, my URLs look something like http://mydomain.ext/question/5 where question is the ...
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0answers
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“Most linked content” - a page has disappeared
So for my site, under "Most linked content" there is a whole list of pages, but one top page has recently disappeared. It used to be on the list with about 1000+ incoming links. Now it's totally gone.
...
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2answers
49 views
I want to trace the activity of my customize link sent via email or on chat to my custome
I want to trace the activity of my customize link sent via email or on chat to my customer.
Activity like :
whether they opened the link or not?
How much time they were on page?
examples:
I ...
0
votes
3answers
86 views
Can i link to other websites in my newsletter?
I'm intrested in adding several intresting articles on my newsletter from other websites.
Am i allowed to do that in general or every website has it's own rules?
4
votes
4answers
246 views
Is having a 'home' navigation item on the home page negative to your sites SEO? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Do search engines penalise ‘Home’ links and/or buttons?
My work colleague has recently had conversations with some SEO consultants and after those conversations she has ...
0
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1answer
50 views
Do own brand organic searches improve your overall SEO?
I noticed something interesting at https://www.wisepricer.com/partner.php
Every outgoing link is actually a Google Search, rather than a link to the partner's domain.
So it got me wondering, can ...
0
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2answers
199 views
Disadvantage of creating tracking source
Is there disadvantages of creating your own link tracking source (Example: ?src=publication ) instead of using Google's utm_source?
Two things that I see that it's an advantage using my own tracking ...
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0answers
259 views
Pins on Pinterest link to 404 - yet link is valid
this is a really strange one.
I've set up a bunch of pins on Pinterest linking through to our services which all work fine. Then I decided to do the same on our blog articles (we use Wordpress), yet ...
0
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0answers
150 views
Dealing with blackhat SEO companies and low quality link building competitors [closed]
I have often faced a case where the competitors of my client use SEO blackhat tactics where they contact a SEO company to do link building for their websites and products.
Here is an example of a ...
0
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1answer
371 views
linking Google AdWords account to Google Analytics account
I have a Google Analytics account that has two profiles, one for www.ayrshireminis.com and one for www.crmpicco.co.uk. I have a Google AdWords account that I would like to link to my Google Analytics ...
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2answers
154 views
Easy way to identify pages which are index, but not linked to on my site
I'm just wondering if there is an easy way to find out what pages Google has indexed, that are not directly linked on my site, for example: www.mysite.com/skype.html originally had a link in my site ...
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vote
2answers
53 views
Link form correct, or, punishable by search engines?
I have the following dilemma with the links of a WordPress blog that I work with, I don't know if the way it creates the link to the images is ok or not so good.
For example:
Article URL: ...
3
votes
1answer
71 views
SEO for maps-based websites that require user interaction
I have a website that basically shows a lot of locations worldwide on a Google Maps like interface. The map itself is built using the Leaflet library and Open Street Map tiles.
In the map, I show ...
