A reference to another webpage that the user can follow (click on) to access that document.
7
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3answers
1k views
Linking to Wikipedia. What’s the impact on SEO?
I have a content generated site and I am planning to write a tool that data mines the content and links it to relevant articles on Wikipedia
I wanted to understand the SEO cost of doing this link. ...
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 ...
2
votes
2answers
198 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 ...
1
vote
2answers
85 views
Links Pages - Useful or Harmful?
What is the current thinking regarding having a links page on your website?
I understand so many outgoing links on a page with little other content will be hellish for that page's page rank, but what ...
1
vote
1answer
102 views
How to have html display a link, but open a javascipt function instead?
I have an html page, and I need a link to show that the user would be going to 'example.html', when really, the link goes to 'javascipt:ajaxLoad(example.html);'.
EDIT: I went over to stackexchange, ...
7
votes
4answers
221 views
Rel no follow on EVERY link?
Forgive me for asking such a simple question, I understand why you would want to rel nofollow untrusted links (forum posts, blog comments etc), but why would you not want to do it on EVERY link on ...
3
votes
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.
...
1
vote
2answers
72 views
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 ...
0
votes
1answer
109 views
Suggested ways of collecting 1000's of links to MSM media articles [closed]
I'm currently running a modified Wordpress site that is uniquely designed to simply publish links to other sites, similar to The Drudge Report. Right now I have a few dozen Google Alerts setup and go ...
9
votes
2answers
1k views
Can I use asterisks in URLs?
Are there any reasons I shouldn't use an asterisk (*) in a URL?
Background:
With asterisks, I could provide these nice and user friendly (or what do you think??) URLs:
...
4
votes
2answers
46 views
“Pay with a link” - ethical for SEO?
There are a number of "Pay with tweet" type services where you get access to a download (pdf/ebook etc) if you tweet or Facebook like.
Are there any services that do similar for 'normal' links (Blogs ...
7
votes
1answer
650 views
Which current stock mobile browsers support linked phone numbers by default?
The better question is, are there any that currently DO NOT support auto linking of phone numbers by default? Main support for iPhone, Android, BB, Windows Phone, Palm.
I'm trying to determine if I ...
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
2answers
89 views
Increasing the pagerank to my blogs index page, removing the links to posts
I want to increase page rank on my main index blog page and categories.
If i remove the links to my posts from my index page and have only links to categories, will that help? Anyone tried it?
Ty
3
votes
3answers
167 views
Is link trading a recommended method of SEO?
I've read in some places that link trading is a good way to get in-bound links, but read in other places that link trading is punished by search engines.
Should I use link trading or is it ...
0
votes
1answer
220 views
How do I measure which links get the most clicks?
I was wondering if anyone could tell me how I can measure which types of links (links to twitter [or other social network] profiles, links to videos, stack exchange flair, navigational menus, etc.) ...
3
votes
3answers
187 views
How to restrict the download of all files in a folder?
I have several .pdb files, which should be viewed in my website by clicking a link on a page. But when a pdf file opens, in the address bar it is visible the directory where all .pdf files reside. SO ...
4
votes
2answers
105 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 ...
3
votes
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 ...
1
vote
3answers
205 views
Does no follow prevent my pages from search engine penalisation?
Can I link to websites that contain similar contents to my own and not be penalised by search engines if I use the rel=nofollow on the anchor tag?
3
votes
2answers
721 views
Why do porn websites link to my site?
I have a webiste about Bolivia and theirs destinations. This project is hosted on GoDaddy and have been modified by many differents teams... I do not understand why sometimes the most relevant ...
1
vote
3answers
120 views
Pseudo-external links and SEO
I don't know, how to name such a links.
Main idea is following:
I write a post at a community, which I do not control, and place a link to my web-site:
www.mywebsite.com
When post is saved, my ...
4
votes
5answers
1k views
Absolute vs relative links
Our site's navigation links are currently in relative form:
<a href="/section">
The SEO company I mentioned in my previous question recommends we change them to absolute links:
<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, ...
-1
votes
4answers
596 views
SEO - PageRank on Facebook pages, but pages have no back links to them?
have a look at these two pages:
1) http://www.facebook.com/zvz.ro (PageRank 4 from Google toolbar)
Amazingly it has got NO links to it (you can see it with Majestic SEO free report): ...
2
votes
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 ...
4
votes
3answers
103 views
Link value of links from social media
As a SEO you can benefit from Social Media activities and it even seems key according to Matt Cutts recent video on SEO in 2011. However besides getting 'inbound links' from third party websites or ...
8
votes
2answers
167 views
Linking with an image: Background vs <img>
What is considered best practice (semantically) when using text with an image to link to an internal page or category?
Option 1
<nav>
<a href="/kittens">
<img ...
1
vote
1answer
126 views
Redirects in .htaccess to avoid crawl errors
I am getting a lot of errors in Webmaster Tools and basically there's a lot of links ending like this: mydomainname.com/links.php
How can I redirect these links, to shave off this part at the end? ...
1
vote
1answer
64 views
SEO question, getting info about websites
I don't know much about SEO.
I have a csv file with 200,000 links to websites
i want to add another field (or maybe couple of them) to each link in the csv file with page ranking of each link and ...
1
vote
1answer
104 views
To disallow indexing the category and tag listings in a blog
Mark Wilson says that category and tag listings in a blog should be disallowed in order to prevent duplicate content. I understand this.
However, I want to put internal links on keywords in the blog ...
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
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 ...
3
votes
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 ...
1
vote
2answers
312 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:
...
2
votes
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
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?
0
votes
1answer
150 views
Put a link on the nav bar in Wordpress [closed]
I have a Wordpress blog. On the same domain, I have some other stuff hosted that isn't part of my WP install.
I want to link to those other places on my domain from the top menu bar (nav bar) on my ...
1
vote
1answer
356 views
Strange named anchor behavior - only working with the hash mark after a trailing slash
I have an odd problem. Links to named anchors on a site I'm working on are only working correctly if the pound/hash sign is placed after a trailing slash (e.g. example.com/about/#who), rather than ...
0
votes
2answers
249 views
Menu hidden links and bots!
I want to make a menu with a list with hidden links and when the user points the menu with he mouse the links will appear, my problem is that the bots may think this as a deceiving tactic and lower my ...
2
votes
2answers
340 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 ...
21
votes
6answers
961 views
How to avoid “click here” links
I know that I should try to avoid links that have the text "click here". But how do I avoid that? What are good alternatives to
You can find more information about certain topic over here.
...
1
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
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?
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 ...
1
vote
1answer
171 views
Tag link suggestion plugin for WordPress?
Every time I write a post I make sure I add links to words that I have tags for.
For example:
"The economy of Brazil has improved in the last few years"
This ensures that when people re-post my ...
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 ...
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 ...
5
votes
2answers
3k views
Facebook like button in plain HTML, is it possible?
just a quick question, is it possible to create an FB Like button in plain HTML?
I checked out the Like button code dircetly cerated by developers.FB but it's an
<iframe ...
0
votes
1answer
187 views
How to solve this problem with my subdomain?
I have my site hosted at http://blog.rgksugan.in.
I have set a subdomain in it for my blog.
But after landing on my blog whatever other links I click i get the link as
...
