A reference to another webpage that the user can follow (click on) to access that document.
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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, ...
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1answer
52 views
Changing links names and search engines
I was wondering If I change all my links names which is about 2000 links will it effect my seo score and search engine rankings? And how should I warn search engines?
I want to change my links from.
...
3
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1answer
89 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 ...
3
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2answers
82 views
Which one is better? To have link on one page or on all pages?
I have a website: http://www.amenajari-gradini-mures.ro and I will put links on http://www.casesigradini.ro .
I would like to know which one is better from the point of view of SEO:
- to have one ...
3
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3answers
120 views
Could link decoration be considered deceptive?
A discussion in the warrior-forum made me wonder if google might perceive link decoration as an attempt to deceive the visitors..
The issue being if you style your links to show like normal text.
...
3
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3answers
323 views
SEO: adding your company signature with link to all websites you make?
I saw many webdesigner companies adding a small signature on each website they make.
Signature could be masked by words like credits, design by..., but they all contain a direct link to the webdesign ...
3
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3answers
187 views
Adding site credit in footer of site as a <a> tag - bad practice for google penguin?
When I'm making a clients site I always include a link
<p>site by <a href="example.com" target="blank" rel="no follow"><strong>example</strong></a></p>
Is this bad ...
3
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1answer
186 views
duplicate links to subdomain hurting SEO
I have a main site, http://hollywoodnose.com and http://forum.hollywoodnose.com. What I was doing was showing the 8 most recent forum posts in the right column of http://hollywoodnose.com. In my ...
3
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1answer
110 views
SEO - Where to go from here (how to build links etc)?
I've been asked to find out about SEO and getting links. We are apparently in a contract with a firm who have made changes to our site code, changes to the text on the site, and registered us with a ...
3
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3answers
78 views
Links from pages with poor/no ranking, is there anything I can do about this?
A site I help with sells a particular set of items, they have a strong reputation locally, and sell parts nationally online. From an observational point of view I enjoy working with them as they do ...
3
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1answer
70 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 ...
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 ...
3
votes
1answer
56 views
Will moving a WordPress from one location to another result in broken links
I am having a WordPress installed at www.mydomain.com/blog/wordpress/
I am planning to move it to www.mydomain.com/blog/
Will this cause any 404 broken links? This question may seem stupid but please ...
3
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1answer
34 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
...
2
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1answer
119 views
What's the best way to put invisible for user but indexable link?
I have several sites on the same topic but still competitive to each other. I would like to put cross links on these sites in text so they won't be visible/"clicakble" but still indexable by search ...
2
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2answers
226 views
Is it considered blackhat SEO to have hidden text within links?
My aim is to simply be informative about where a link is pointing to search engines. I have some content that is listed by name and then I have a "Permalink" button. Would it be blackhat SEO to add ...
2
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2answers
197 views
How Can I Get Rid of This Hidden Link?
I recently downloaded a WP Theme and started building a page. However, if I scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page, I notice a hidden link for an adult toy store. I have searched all of the ...
2
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2answers
233 views
Free link checker for large website?
Can anyone recommend a free, thorough online link checker for a fairly large website?
2
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2answers
75 views
Links shortener with advanced reporting?
I am serching for a script (preferably in PHP) or an external solution which lets me create an "url shortener" with advanced reports.
We have been using Google Short Links for a while: it works ...
2
votes
1answer
78 views
What to do with repeated content (anchor text) in internal search results when it comes to SEO?
On a website that delivers internal search results for products, within the results listing we have a repeating link to "add to favourites" (not browser-bookmarks, but user profile related) in every ...
2
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2answers
269 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
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3answers
140 views
Search engine impact of irrelevant inbound links?
On several of my websites, I noticed a significant number of inbound links coming from irrelevant websites.
For example, one of my site is about travel and one of site that links to it is about ...
2
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1answer
165 views
Why should/shouldn't I put social media icons on my website?
Why should/shouldn't I put social media icons on my website?
2
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2answers
117 views
Landing pages explained more, and Ad landing pages need inlink from the webiste they promote?
After reading here what's a landing page is and some other articles i understood there are 2 types of landing pages, the Ad ones for commercial and the SEO ones.
AD (COMMERCIAL) LANDING PAGES
In ...
2
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1answer
111 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 ...
2
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2answers
329 views
Share links with <script src=“”> SEO
I would like to create a share link to my website using javascript:
script src="[url-to-my-script]"
Basically the main idea behind this is to render HTML block with an image and link to the ...
2
votes
1answer
219 views
Should I strategically use NoFollow on internal links to make our indexing crawl more efficient?
We have a well designed internal linking system that makes certain no page is more than four pages deep, and the indexing process has gone well for us.
However, in addition to the hierarchical page ...
2
votes
3answers
143 views
When should I accept links from other sites (SEO wise)?
Instead of blogging in order to promote my site, I decided to form supporting professional sites. Each site is related to a specific keyword that I would like to promote on my main site.
My question ...
2
votes
3answers
123 views
What are the most popular sharing/subscribing services?
Almost every site now (including this one) has buttons to share the page or subscribe with specific web services like digg, google reader, delicious, etc. I've personally never clicked one (I always ...
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?
2
votes
1answer
43 views
Worth shortening all your long slugs?
If you have a lot of posts with long slugs, for ex, 40-places-to-eat-snickers-bars-when-hungry, is it worth converting them to something shorter? For ex: places-to-eat-snickers-bars. I've read a few ...
2
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1answer
67 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 ...
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 ...
2
votes
1answer
55 views
Building links towards Category Pages?
I am current building some links and I want to get the best results out of it. I have had links towards my homepage, as well as detail page. But not many are towards my category page. I assume having ...
2
votes
2answers
97 views
Is there an alternate resource similar to Mozscape by SEOmoz?
I was wondering if there is an alternate (free or paid) resource similar to SEOmoz's Linkscape (now Mozscape) where the entire web is indexed and a website's entire link profile is scraped and ...
2
votes
1answer
152 views
SEO Value in redirected link?
Our local Chamber of Commerce has an incoming link to us, but they are using an internal ASP page to process the link and using a 302 redirect to send that page to our site. So our anchor text on ...
2
votes
1answer
62 views
How to effectively use an overseas SEO team?
My company is currently in contract with a 20+ person team in the Philippines, previously used for comment linking and guest blogging spun content articles. This is a practice that we're stopping, but ...
2
votes
2answers
339 views
Why did my Google links disappear after a redesign?
I recently did a complete redesign of my site. As soon as Google picked up the changes (I could tell because the excerpt in the search results was brought up to date), I noticed that my traffic ...
2
votes
0answers
45 views
Internal link in email? [migrated]
How do I insert an internal link in an email?
Here's html I open in browser, copy-paste in gmail, send it to myself and expect its internal links to be working:
<html>
<body>
...
2
votes
1answer
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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 ...
2
votes
0answers
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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 ...
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3answers
170 views
Link Building is Still a factor for getting rank in google?
Is Link Building still a major factor for good ranking in SERP’s?
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2answers
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where should I use new → I see everywhere?
I currently use
to refer to an external link on my personal website.
However recently I have started noticing extended use of → for links. Is this a replacement for ? or is it used to convey some ...
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vote
2answers
310 views
Why won't title attributes get indexed in Google?
When I search for Ride On + my site's name, I see that it's indexed.
But when I search for Green Horse + my site's name, I don't see my site appearing in the results anywhere!
Here's my code:
...
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vote
2answers
187 views
Where can I find good link exchange programs and forums?
googling didnt worked in finding good link exchange programs.Has anyone of you tried an automatic link exchange program?My sites page rank has fallen from 3 to 1.Please help
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2answers
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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
vote
2answers
44 views
What is the recommended way to handle opening attachments from a webpage?
When creating a website, depending on how a browsers Mime-Types are setup, downloading attachments can have different behaviors. Is there a website that talks about this and suggests a ...
1
vote
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 ...
1
vote
2answers
61 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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vote
2answers
52 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: ...
