Questions tagged [links]
A reference to another webpage that the user can follow (click on) to access that document.
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Is it worth changing external outbound links from http to https if the other site redirects properly?
Many of the outbound links on my site have changed but only from 'http' to 'https'. Do I need to add the 's' to all the links if they 301 redirect to HTTPS?
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Can I use favicon of other websites when I link to them on my site?
I'm creating websites catalog and I wonder whether or not I can use favicon of other websites as an icon next to its domain name. As far as I know I can use screenshots of websites without the owner's ...
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Relation between a page Click-Through Rate and the average number of clicks necessary to reach it from any other page of the site
In Search Engine Optimization: Comparison of Link Building and Social Sharing (Sonya Zhang & Neal Cabage, 2016) I found a troubling id est relation:
Using well-structured pages including sections ...
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Can in-page anchors link to themselves for SEO?
My page has a lot of sections. Each section has a unique anchor tag like <h2 id="anchor-text">.
Is it a good practice to link anchors to themselves <h2 id="anchor-text">...
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Why don't SEO tools such as Screaming frog crawl some of my links?
I have several internal links in my inner pages, for example Interlaken, Switzerland. I used several SEO tools including Screaming Frog to generate sitemap.
All SEO tools index links under the "...
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Why are unknown sites to which I don't link listed in Google Search Console's "Top linking sites" report?
I checked my website on Google Console and I found something strange. I checked the links of my website in the console and in the box that shows Top linking sites. There are two link that when I open ...
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Facebook preview content appears to not be processing the javascript
When a Facebook user posts a link to the page a preview of the page is displayed. This tends to have the first image from the page. The page I have has one canned image at the top and the rest of the ...
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How to get rid of unnecessary url's from google search console?
66 pages of my website which are all deleted still appears in page report of google search console. My eagerness is knowing all the possibilities. Questions include: 1. does this affect SEO? 2. How ...
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Can I use the "UGC" link attribute to mark paragraphs of content submitted by users?
Google recently advised us to use the following link attributes:
nofollow
sponsored
ugc
"dofollow" is by default if not stated.
So, sponsored is for affiliate links (for example) and "ugc" is "...
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Will Google value links to expired domains that have been down for months if I create a new site there?
I found some new dropped domains that I buy that have decent links that are all 404 of course. When a domain is dropped and the link has been 404'd for over 100 days does Google 100% ignore that ...
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Does using links to other pages dilute the linking page's link juice/page rank?
There are lot's of questions here about passing link juice to other pages, including Does how deep a page is in the page hierarchy affect it's ranking?. I've read several of them over the months, ...
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add the same internal link multiple times in the same article
Is there any SEO negative effect if I used the same internal link multiple times in different contexts in the same article.
Ex:
you should configure webmaster to be able to crawl and indexing
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How can a file download link download an old file that doesn't exist?
Early last year, I created a website that parses a CSV file and parses / displays it in a certain way for internal use. One page of this website provides an upload / download function so that the CSV ...
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Would adding links between pages help Google index more of our site?
We have a hotel search website. We have identified some concepts that we would like Google to index, for example, we have a landing page for "Boutique Hotels in Chicago, IL", Given number of cities in ...
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Can a list of internal links be partly hidden in a scrolling container and repetitive anchor text removed without hurting SEO?
We are re-designing our home page and for some aesthetic reason deciding to make access to rest of our internal links (inside cards categories) by scrolling the cards and normally a portion of these ...
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Is it legitimate for rel prev / next links to indicate a circular sequence of pages?
Before anything else, yes, Google no longer takes note of rel prev / next and has not done so (officially) for nearly a year. Google officially deprecated rel prev / next as a crawl / indexing factor ...
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Can I use the thumbnails of external links in a news aggregator website?
I'm building a site where I need to post some news (links) about a specific subject.
I'll gather them around and aggregate them on my site.
The question is:
Can I use their thumbnail to promote ...
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Are <button role=“link”>s indexable by Google?
For complicated reasons, we can't use <a href=""> tags on part of one of our pages.
If we use <button role="link">, will Search Engines crawl the page? If not, is there another way to ...
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Tracking outbound links with Google Tag Manager without hurting SEO
My website contains a widget with links to social media and I'm using a script to open the links.
Because I'm not adding the links directly into href attribute I think the web crawlers may be missing ...
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Do links from every page on my main domain to subdomain hurt SEO?
I have a WordPress website (eg example.com) which is basically a blog with weekly educational posts about a specific subject. I also have a subdomain (eg courses.example.com) which offers online ...
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Is a maximum of fifty links in my situation desirable, or every high-quality work I want to include?
I have an old domain A.com which has PageRank 4 and newer domain B.com which has PageRank 2. I have been redirecting from A.com to B.com.
Now I am in the process of adding a non-redirected homepage ...
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AWstats reports URLs appended to other canonical URLs, why?
I've been running a site for a while now and my AWstats page is starting to present pages with... some sort of endless stream of references to pages. It's a bit bizarre, I'm not sure what's happened.
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Will changing from target=_blank to target=_self affect SEO or analytics?
I saw that my website is using target="_blank" on internal links due to something I totally missed in the code. So, I changed that to _self, as there is no need to target a new window while they are ...
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Can I hide my backlink profile from my competitors?
If you are ranking high then competitors try to check your backlinks and just go on creating links from where you have created.
Is there any method to hide links from competitors?
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Should I use the 'noreferrer' attribute on my website links (to open in a new window) as a safety measure?
There are many sites on the internet that recommend you to add the noopener noreferrer attributes to your link as a safety measure. This is to avoid malicious scripts from other domains to take ...
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How do I share my site so it is available to people looking at my resume, but not on search engines?
I need to show a static web page created from scratch (HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap 4, Google APIs, pictures) to potential employers.
I already purchased a domain name from Hover.com and the next step will ...
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How to check if a page is indexed for getting a backlink from it?
I have been creating backlinks for a website for the last 2 months. However, I am unable to see any improvement in rankings.
How can I check before creating a link on any website, whether or not ...
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Do external links help just the SEO of a single page, or all the pages on my site?
A few of my website's articles have gone "viral." In the process, they got backlinks from other sites.
Will these external links help with the ranking of all my articles, including the ones that ...
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Would search engines consider footer links to my other websites to be toxic?
I have a bunch of websites with recipes from around the world. On the footer of each one of them there are links to the others.
I was wondering if this technique is good or not for SEO. I own all of ...
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Wordpress Permalink Structure in the Scheme of a Content Clustering Strategy?
We're in the early stages of planning an information architecture rework with the goal of implementing a content clustering approach and a better internal linking strategy.
What it looks like now:
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Does backlinking to an IP address affect all domains hosted on it?
If I make a link pointing to a shared hosting IP address, does it have any effect on all domain hosted on it?
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Would google index our page if we have it in sitemap but do not have any links for that on website? [duplicate]
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Would google index my web-page if it's not on my website but it's in the sitemap?
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We have a few product price pages i.e. for product bwm-x3, following are 3 URLs:
-> bmw-x3-price-in-...
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How to rank pages that require user input?
We have an automobile product page where we describe details about the specific car / bike like it's images, videos, news, reviews etc.
Now, we are planning to show the price and EMI of these ...
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Will using x-Robots-Tag on a 302 redirect URL from advertising prevent Google penalties when the publisher doesn't support nofollow links?
Usually we buy ads banner on some website (not with SEO purpose) and we use this approach:
publisher-website.example -> banner -> short-link.example/1234/
On this domain we have configured a ...
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Will having lots of relevant internal links affect the ranking of pages, and is there a limit?
We are revisiting our internal linking strategy at my workplace.
The current implementation takes a bunch links and puts them on a number of pages that are reachable from the header. Some links ...
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Is it non-beneficial for my website if I pass do follow link to another website?
If I provide outbound link to a similar niche website with do-follow tag, that website will sure be benefitted but will it harm my website in any ways ?
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MediaWiki: Hiding certain HTML elements for non-logged-in users
In a MediaWiki-based non-communal website there are some HTML elements that should be presented only for logged-in-users (an administration menu or some of its links).
Usually if I want to hide ...
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Goodle Ads and malicious links
Had my website hacked through a plugin 3 weeks ago. rebuilt the site with a new wordpress site (hosted on Godaddy wordpress pro). this was a fresh build. All the built in malware checks in ...
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rel="noreferrer noopener" in target="_blank" external links
In numerous sites I have been reading, they say that you must use rel="noreferrer noopener" when using target="_blank" within external links.
I can understand why you should use noopener as a ...
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How should sources be cited in an article for good SEO, especially when there might be a lot?
I think there are two ways of citing sources in an article: links distributed in the article body, or links listed at the end of the article.
Example with links in the article:
This is some text ...
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How to see where links to 404 pages are found in Google Search Console?
I've found the Google Search Console report where it lists all the 404 Not Found Errors on the site. But when I click into each URL, it doesn't tell me WHERE on the website these links are actually ...
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Two links to same target, one nofollow, one follow
If there's a website that links two times to the same external target site. One link is marked as nofollow, one link is unmarked.
Will Google count one follow link or both as nofollow?
I thought I'...
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Roundup Posts For SEO
If I publish roundup posts (with all external links being high quality, no spams) more frequently, is there a chance of getting penalised by Google in the near future?
Or, is it possible that this ...
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How can I make Xenu Link Sleuth check relative URLs?
I'm using an old free web crawler called Xenu Link Sleuth to find broken links on my site.
Normally it works well enough for my needs, but the site that I'm testing it on right now seems to ...
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Does duplicate linkage of the same page causes SEO penalty?
We have an automobile website with a product page for each bikes/cars available in the Indian market. The product page has product description and different slugs to show other relevant products too i....
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Two steps have pages with similar titles which gives a warning from Yoast SEO
my custom product designer web application is in the following page of my site: www.example.com/designyourself
This page can show different designable product based on Query String, example:
www....
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Can we automate internal links of large websites?
Consider a Large website with more than 2,00,000+ Pages like News websites. In News websites we are updating the content daily. Means more than 100+ articles are updated to website daily.
Interlinking ...
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Why would a 301 redirected RSS feed be appearing as an external link in Google Search Console?
We redirected our website over a year ago to a new domain. 301 is confirmed in place etc. All works fine.
However a couple of RSS feed URLs using the old domain have appeared in the external link ...
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When splitting a folder with tens of thousands of documents into several folders, how can I handle broken links?
I have over 30,000 html files stored in www.example.com/docs, and these files are linked to each other. When it comes to displaying the content of those files on my site, I use the following code: ...
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Do forum signature link count as backlink? [duplicate]
I am new on SEO so there are many questions arises on my mind about SEO. I have seen there has a signature area where I can paste a link.
Does this link will count as a backlink?
If I post 500 ...
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