A reference to another webpage that the user can follow (click on) to access that document.
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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 ...
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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?
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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 ...
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1answer
279 views
Joomla. Link redirects to another template
Well, i din't know where to post this question (here or stackoverflow) but i really need your help. I have a website on joomla, i'm using a template (called Mall) and when i click a link from the ...
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1answer
444 views
403 Forbidden Error?
I recently ran Xenu link checker on my site. I link to several Wikipedia pages and ever wiki page generates a 403 code. Here is an example of the message:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska
...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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186 views
How Can I Check and know how many websites/blogs are linking to my website.?
Can I know how many websites/Blogs are linking to my website? Is there any free tools? Can I use with google.com too?
Can I use also with google.com link:www.mysite.com ?
What is the different ...
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2answers
62 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 ...
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1answer
127 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?
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1answer
866 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 ...
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1answer
450 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 ...
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1answer
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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 ...
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1answer
52 views
What's causing warnings when clicking a link in a newsletter/email message?
I've created a html email newsletter (sending it through campaign monitor) and some of my receivers complain that they get a warning when they're clicking on links in my email.
Warning this web ...
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2answers
150 views
What are natural growth rates for incoming and outgoing links?
Appears to be no more than 10-15% per month, is that correct? Also, along the same lines, what the max amount of outbound link a site can start out with and not be canned as spam.
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1answer
16 views
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 ...
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2answers
68 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 ...
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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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1answer
56 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
...
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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, ...
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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 ?
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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 ...
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1answer
81 views
Tips for managing internal and external links using WordPress [closed]
So I'm looking for ways to optimize my site for user and search engine purposes. I've read several articles and looked at several different plugins. To say the least, I'm thoroughly confused as what ...
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1answer
40 views
lot of internal links to one not relevant internal page may distort google's opinion of site content?
if I have a lot of pages talking about cars, and nearly any of them point to
/gray-cars.htm or /city-cars.htm
because they are the most sold ones... do you think that
/red-cars.htm and ...
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1answer
161 views
Will internal tracking links (redirecting to outbound URLs) hurt my Google rankings?
On my site I have multiple internal tracking links (eg. /track/link/12) which direct the user to an internal tracking script which subsequently redirects the user to some outbound URL. Common ...
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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
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1answer
128 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? ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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
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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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0answers
258 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 ...
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0answers
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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 ...
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0answers
35 views
SEO Is it Good or Bad to add Company Name to Title Attribute? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is the title attribute (not tag) important to SEO?
So while I'm filling out title / alt attributes I noticed I was just automatically adding my company name to almost ...
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2answers
749 views
Adding a link to an article to footer in joomla 1.7
I need to create a link in footer of my template (For example a TOS link).
My footer has a position.
How can I create such a link in joomla 1.7 ? Wich module can do this?
Thanks
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3answers
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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3answers
197 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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1answer
73 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 ...
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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 ...
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2answers
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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 ...
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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 ...
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2answers
331 views
SEO effects of linking to subdomain
I have http://hollywoodnose.com as a main site. Then I have http://forum.hollywoodnose.com as the subdomain.
I'm cautious to link to the subdomain from the main site. I did this before and droped ...
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1answer
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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
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 ...
