A reference to another webpage that the user can follow (click on) to access that document.
4
votes
3answers
254 views
What tools to use for efficient link building?
As most SEO experts keep saying, it is not just the content that you have - but also a hefty amount of quality incoming links to your content that is important - these are the two ways to get to the ...
2
votes
1answer
59 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 ...
3
votes
1answer
37 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
...
1
vote
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 ...
0
votes
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
votes
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.
...
2
votes
2answers
98 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
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 ...
5
votes
2answers
324 views
Why do some user agents have spam urls in them (and why are they always Opera/Presto User-Agents)?
If you go to (say) the last 100 entries (visits) to the botsvsbrowsers.com website (exact link, feel free to take a look: http://www.botsvsbrowsers.com/recent/listings/index.html ), you'd notice that ...
5
votes
2answers
269 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 ...
0
votes
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 ...
0
votes
2answers
132 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 ...
0
votes
3answers
190 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 ...
6
votes
1answer
71 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 ...
4
votes
2answers
113 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 ...
1
vote
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 ...
1
vote
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
7
votes
2answers
787 views
Do image backlinks count as backlinks?
If i have lots of images appearing tumblr blogs, the sort of tumblogs with very little text just reams and reams of images for people to browse through (example - http://whereisthecool.com/). If my ...
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>
...
0
votes
0answers
55 views
Moving the title of a link [migrated]
I am not a HTML/CSS expert but I am in charge of developing and maintaining a website for my employer.
I have set of link in the middle of my webpage that I want to have a specific CSS applied to ...
23
votes
2answers
467 views
How to use rel='canonical' properly
I have 3 URLS that serve the same data:
www.example.com/product/foo
www.example.com/product/foo?id=1
www.example.com?product=foo
For Google's sake I want the URL www.example.com/product/foo to be ...
1
vote
2answers
67 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
votes
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
votes
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. ...
7
votes
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. ...
1
vote
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
...
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 ...
0
votes
1answer
38 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 ...
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 ...
0
votes
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 ...
1
vote
1answer
83 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 ...
21
votes
6answers
962 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.
...
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 ...
-1
votes
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
votes
2answers
76 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 ...
6
votes
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
vote
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 ...
3
votes
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 ...
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 ...
2
votes
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 ...
1
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: ...
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 ...
0
votes
1answer
124 views
Depth of URLs and SEO [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL?
Does the depth of an URL affect SEO/Pagerank? Is there any max or optimal level for URL depth?
If you have, lets say, a ...
0
votes
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 ...
-2
votes
2answers
163 views
Disable outbound links without letting others know that
Is there a way I can tell google not to follow external links ( pointing to other sites) without letting other know.
I know you can disable outbound links by putting rel=nofollow or something in ...
1
vote
2answers
81 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 ...
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 ...
1
vote
3answers
653 views
Linking to site from same server SEO impact
I've heard that linking to a site from the same server is bad for SEO. If the link is set to rel no-follow, would that be OK?
19
votes
3answers
5k views
Is the title attribute (not tag) important to SEO?
The title attribute is an HTML standard element available across most tags. e.g.
<li><a title="Widgets listed by household function" href="/widgets/by-function.html">by ...
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 ...
