A reference to another webpage that the user can follow (click on) to access that document.
2
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1answer
113 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 ...
6
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1answer
173 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, ...
1
vote
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 ...
1
vote
1answer
55 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 ...
0
votes
1answer
112 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 ...
4
votes
2answers
104 views
Is it against Google Webmaster Policy to accept paid guest blog posts?
When people email me to "sponsor" or buy a blog post, is that illigal according to google rules?
Or is it only illegal when they request a straight up link placement in exchange for cash?
Also, will ...
2
votes
0answers
186 views
Google Analytics doesn't show the correct landing page for my Facebook ads
Most of the visitors to my site are supposed to come from an external link with URL example.com/en/var from Facebook ads but Google Analytics shows that most of the landing page is example.com/var ...
1
vote
1answer
449 views
Direct-Linking file hosting? [closed]
Hello I'm developing a project, and I need to know is there a file hosting which support direct links to txt, zip? I have tried some free hosting sites, but all I do is get 403 forbidden when trying ...
0
votes
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
votes
2answers
122 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?
3
votes
5answers
2k views
Thousands of 404 errors in Google Webmaster Tools
Because of a former error in our ASP.Net application, created by my predecessor and undiscovered for a long time, thousands of wrong URLs where created dynamically. The normal user did not notice it, ...
2
votes
2answers
273 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 ...
2
votes
3answers
106 views
Linking competitor with the same keyword i am targeting : Good or Bad for Seo?
I am linking one of my competitors from my site for the same keyword which is I am targeting for my site (My competitor is paying me for that).
For Example:
Me and my competitor both are targeting ...
1
vote
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 ...
0
votes
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 ...
0
votes
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 ...
1
vote
0answers
80 views
“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.
...
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
245 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
votes
2answers
197 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 ...
0
votes
4answers
165 views
Possible to find where someone else's website is getting inbound links?
I know you can do this for websites that you control, but I'm wondering if it's possible to see how someone else's site is linked to? Preferably for free.
I think it was possible using yahoos search ...
1
vote
1answer
160 views
Will we be penalized for having multiple external links to the same site?
There seem to be conflicting answers on this question. The most relevant ones seem to be at least a year or two old, so I thought it would be worth re-asking this question.
My gut says it's ok, ...
5
votes
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 ...
1
vote
0answers
254 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
votes
0answers
149 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
votes
1answer
368 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 ...
0
votes
1answer
69 views
Facebook contest policy no-no?
I would like to post a link on a Facebook page where it will exit Facebook entirely and go to a client's website, where people will be on a page (client's) where they can enter their e-mail address to ...
7
votes
4answers
1k views
& in sitemap links, are they correct?
Simple question, I'm asking just to make sure.
A Google sitemap generator generated a sitemap.txt fle with links written like this:
http://www.domain.com/category.htm?name=some-name&cat_id=8
...
0
votes
0answers
156 views
Email links open in a new window [closed]
I'm asking this as an opinion question. How does everyone treat email links opening in a new window if their default email client is web based?
This way? <a href="mailto:me@myemail.com">email ...
1
vote
1answer
133 views
Referrer Strings
I'm not exactly sure how to ask this, but here I go.
I work for a company that provides IT services. Our main costumer has a website developed by WebCompany.com, and I act as a maintainer/middle-man ...
1
vote
0answers
23 views
How can I see what Wikipedia pages link to my website? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I see what pages on the internet link to my site?
According to webworth.info, my website is linked to within Wikipedia.
Where in the world is that reference ...
0
votes
1answer
91 views
Do twitter links adversely affect SEO?
I had planned on making a page according to a specific theme using content populated from the Twitter search API.
With the new display requirements, I see I am obliged to include hash links, twitter ...
5
votes
1answer
409 views
SEO: Make hashtag links look static
So I have a website which displays all my content vertically. (like modern websites often do these days). Thus I can't create static links to each section. I'm currently handling the scrolling with ...
3
votes
1answer
90 views
Online dead link alert service
I'm looking for an online service that will periodically (daily) check for broken links on my site (~100 pages). I see lots of tools that you can download and run, and indeed have used such tools in ...
1
vote
1answer
32 views
New to a webhost and nothing linked is appearing
I have a problem with my new web host. I recently switched my site from a free to a paid host and it was working fine on the free. Now however, when I go to the index page no formatting or anything ...
3
votes
2answers
177 views
Is 'link building' a white-hat SEO activity?
Link-building is the process of manually building links in any way possible to show the site in question as having more of a value to search engines than it did previously. Therefore it's surely a ...
5
votes
3answers
444 views
Strange incoming links appearing on site statistics
Last year, I started a small blog on wordpress.com. Most of my blog posts are about computational statistics.
When I look at the site stats, I've noticed a number of strange incoming links. Usually, ...
3
votes
2answers
429 views
How can I create links in javascript that are crawlable by search engines?
If I use JavaScript + jQuery, for example, does links inserted in $(document).ready() will be available for crawling? How can I insert crawlable links in JavaScript?
8
votes
4answers
669 views
Will link exchange with similar sites improve my page rank?
I have a programming blog and I was wondering if link exchange with other programming blogs (where I link to them and they link to me) is a good idea to improve my site's page rank.
I know in ...
4
votes
1answer
272 views
Does Google value links to a page's named anchors (#) as equal to links to the page w/o the anchor?
Occasionally my site gets links directly to a sub-section of a page via a named anchor, e.g. /mypage.html#section1
Does Google give this link equal weight as a link to /mypage.html?
0
votes
1answer
50 views
how search engines see reciprical links
reciprical links cancel each other out from a search engines point of view but what counts as a recpirical link ..
Do reciprical links work on a site level or an individual page level ?
If you where ...
0
votes
1answer
61 views
How does missing links influence the Google ranking?
I changed a lot on my website and I want to know if this affects the Google ranking negatively.
6
votes
2answers
148 views
How to find delicious links?
Delicious links don't show up in Google webmaster tools. I have at least one page with 100+ links from delicious.com to it, since two years ago or more, but webmaster tools doesn't show it. Is there ...
1
vote
1answer
110 views
do text ads count as backlinks?
Do text link ads, like the ones from text-link-ads.com act as backlinks ? Surly they work as normal anchor text, but are search engines wise to this technique and just not count them ?
1
vote
1answer
79 views
Difference betweeen hidden links and blogroll link kept hidden?
I was reading about hidden links. I had a question in mind that when I use WordPress's blogroll option, it asks me to either show the link or keep it hidden. How is it different than the hidden link ...
1
vote
1answer
126 views
Image hot-linking - is it beneficial for SEO
Are there any SEO benefits to be had from allowing other sites to hotlink our images?
0
votes
1answer
55 views
How to link messenger-usernames on a website?
I want to link usernames of instant-messengers (for example ICQ, AIM, YIM, MSN, Skype,...) on my website.
For Skype i might use <a href="callto:username">Skype: username</a>
But what ...
3
votes
3answers
145 views
Creating a subdomain (sub.domain.com) for special posts on a blog: Good idea?
I have created a few plugins and themes that I want to have special pages for. Now I do not want to make a complete new website or page for all the different plugins.
Instead I want to have normal ...
1
vote
1answer
856 views
Do URL shorteners such as bit.ly affect SEO [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
SEO and URL Shortners
I am wanting to do tracking on links which I provide on my blog and was looking at something like bit.ly to do this, but I was wondering if this ...
