Questions tagged [links]
A reference to another webpage that the user can follow (click on) to access that document.
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The impact of broken links in PDFs - how it affects site ranking
So I know that Google frowns upon broken links on web pages.
But how does Google feel about broken links inside PDFs on my website?
What I'm trying to figure out is if my site's ranking will be ...
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SEO value in links from same hosting account
I have a number of websites on my hosting account - all of these belong to me.
One of these websites is a website development consultancy / agency - assume this is my day job.
The other websites ...
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Facebook Links being blocked from preview
Someone in Facebook posted a link to my site. Facebook tries to show a preview of the page with the link but it only shows "403 Forbidden". I am sure that I am somewhere blocking this Facebook request ...
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How To Track Outbound Clicks On Banner Ads Without GA
I cannot use Google Analytics or other premium analytics tools. I can only use AWStats or internal tracking with a PHP script or something like that.
First attempt:
I have already read about how to ...
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Can a tracking script hurt your SEO?
In this case the script that I'm talking about is as below. It contains a redirect that shows the original url, but actually is a cloaked URL that can be ignored by adding data-pzz="false". So a SEO ...
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Would there be an SEO problem with having a section of "recommended" or "popular" links?
Is there any negative impact of having a "recommended" or "popular" links at the end of an article (in the bottom of the page or in the sidebar)?
I am thinking about that because the popular "block" ...
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Is creating high quality pages on a Wiki and linking back to my site a good link building strategy for Google?
I recently found two wiki sites that use do-follow links.
I want to post a few high-quality pages there and link back to my site within them.
Is that okay with Google?
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How to indicate the source of the link is your website?
Let's say you own website A which includes a link to website B.
How can you tag your links on A so that when a user clicks on them, the owner of B, by looking at his/her Google analytic data, can ...
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Link to External Sites as HTTP or HTTPS?
While migrating from HTTP to HTTPS, I am recreating all internal links and canonicals as HTTPS, but it is not clear what to do for external links.
Some links point to sites that support both ...
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How can I internally link to pages while keeping minimalist aesthetics?
I have an e-commerce client who's CEO, owner, clothing designer refuses to have a navigation which links to sub-category pages which help users find more specific products they are looking for. He ...
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Will removing footer links hinder my site's SEO performance?
I have a site which has key location landing pages in the footer which have been there for a long time. I know that these are not best practice and we should remove them. However, this could have a ...
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How can I stop Google from indexing "pretty links" external redirects from my WordPress site?
When I search site:[example].com in Google for my blog, the majority of the pages that are being indexed are "pretty links" to external sites.
I created these links using the Pretty Links plugin so ...
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Do the backlinks for a post with re="canonical" have any effect?
Let's say I have a syndicated post on site A that has a rel="canonical" towards the original post from site B.
Do the backlinks to this syndicated post bring any value for the site A Domain Authority?...
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SEMrush flagging some external links as broken (error code 403, 500 etc) even though link is working fine? [closed]
SEMrush is flagging some of our pages as having broken external link even though the link is opening fine. This particular example is being flagged with http code 403 but we can open the link given on ...
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Is there any difference in a plain text link on a page, and a hyperlink SEO wise?
So I am making an HTML sitemap for my users, mostly to see how it affects SEO, and to see if it would be beneficial visitor-wise.
Is there any difference between the two types of links, and how ...
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Adding breadcrumbs on a particular section of the website but not another
We have a website with multiple product verticals which are independent sections (first section has sub-directory example.com/section1, second one has example.com/section2 and so on for other sections)...
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Make .URL shortcuts into functional links within a Directory Listing
I use a lot of directory listing on my website and want to make .URL shortcut files into functional links. These .URL shortcuts were made by dragging the websites' icons from my Firefox URL bar to my ...
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SEO benefits of linking directly to a scientific paper opposed to linking through a more stable digital object Identifier (DOI) redirect
Different sources show that the type of outgoing links on a site have a minor effect on its ranking (https://searchenginewatch.com/2016/11/02/guide-to-google-ranking-factors-part-9-outbound-links/).
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External links to internal link and redirect
There is s similar question for this (Does external linking with internal link and redirect benefit the target website?) , but it is not extracly similar to this question and it did not give a answer ...
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Is it OK for SEO for a blog post to link to an ecommerce product page and vice versa?
I am referring to an e-commerce environment, there is the blog part and the website part. I know that the blog should link to the product page, but is it a wise choice to link a product page back to ...
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Buying and redirecting domains - White Hat Linkbuilding?
There was a time when buying snapped/old expired domains with a lot of backlinks and just 301-redirect them to your website was a thing.
This was risky, black hat and no longer work. Non-expired ...
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SEO impact of footer links versus side navigation panel
Is there any difference in impact of adding a set of links as a block in footer vs keeping them as a block in the right or left hand side navigation of the site?
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How to block my cpanel link for the users who are accessing my website.
I want to block my cpanel link i.e www.example.in/cpanel for the users who are trying to access it, but it should be accessible only for me. Is there anyway to block it. I don't know anything about it....
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Toxic links between sites inside my server
Recently one of my web sites shows in Google results but the url connected with the Google result is from another website in my server. so i have url-A and url-B
So when i hit url-A in google , I ...
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Will landing pages not linked from anywhere negatively affect SERP ranking?
I want to make a few key landing pages based on what people are searching for about our product. However, I really don't need or want to link to those pages from anywhere on our website. Stuff people ...
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Why is Google crawling non-existant URLs?
I can see in live traffic of my wordpress website that goggle bot crawl non existing pages.
www.example.gr/search/search-results/password-reset%252Fpassword-reset/password-reset%252Fpassword-reset%...
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URL stays at root when using my domain, but with ip the URL changes to the paths of the links
I am using GoDaddy to host my domain, but when I use my domain to go to my contact page (or any other page, including outside pages), it stays at http://www.example.com, instead of the correct url e.g....
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Restoring the balance between anchor text of external links
In past 2 years, we've created so many links using same keywords related to our business in general as anchor text, but few links pertaining to our brand/domain name. Now we believe google considers ...
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Overwriting a File To Avoid Link Updating
CRM: WordPress
I'm updating a pdf file on our website, and would like to know if overwriting the old content with the new content would prevent the need to re-establish the links on the site that ...
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rel="nofollow" On Quality User Supplied Links
Is it good practice to add rel="nofollow" to user supplied links such as in a question and answer site even if the link in question is relevant and of a high quality.
I will use Stack Exchange as an ...
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Is it a good SEO practice to send external links through an uncrawlable redirect script?
I am just wondering if it is a good practice to hide external links from search engines?
What I mean is like that I have tons of MediaFire and Google Drive links (15,000 exactly)and I have a ...
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Web Link format. With or without .html suffix
On our company website most links are in the form:
http://www.example.com/contact.html
Is it a better idea to have
http://www.example.com/contact
Or does it not matter. I got thinking because ...
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Is it good practice for a https site to link to a https url that redirects to http?
Several SEO analysis sites warn against linking to http site from a https site. If I link to https site that redirects to http, does that still violate that rule?
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Changing CMS and URLs
I'm migrating a busy web-shop (10'000 IPs/day) to OpenCart, manually copying all the products, tags, descriptions and architecture.
The old website was not built following semantics standards, no h1 ...
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How to link and pass absolutely no link juice
How can I create a "link" from my site to other sites that passes no link juice or reputation whatsoever? I'm not talking about nofollow links... I'm hoping to discover there's some way to create a ...
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Does Google discount links via redirects...conditionally?
I have a situation that I have never seen before and I didn't find any relevant questions/answers on here...I'm not new to this, I'm just hesitant to post about it so forgive my being somewhat vague:
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Is it good to submit our site in website submission sites?
I was wondering why don't we submit our site in website submission sites and increase our site's rank.
Is is good to do this? How is this working?
Is this a spam activity?
What are the advantages ...
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Linking other websites to my website for seo boost but they did not do the same business
What affect does it make at page ranking if i link other websites to my website as my clients, like people i have worked for and i will place a link with their logo. Does it harm the ranking because ...
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Have page crawled by Google but prevent it from showing in the search results
I would like to create a link exchange with my clients' websites which is not reciprocal but A links to B, B links to C, and C links to A for higher SEO benefit.
If I add an article or a link page ...
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SEO Ramifications of Copying a Page to Stronger Domain and Setting Canonical URL to Point to New Version
I penned a blog post that ended up being covered widely. I'd like to turn it into a landing page page on my main product site which is on a different domain. I don't want to remove my old blog post ...
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What is _ga in url path?
I just opened a link which leaded me to a root (main) page of www of some Organization (let's call it XXXXXXX). It was opened from 3rd party www, not from with XXXXXXX's www.
The url in web browser ...
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Does having multiple embeded items effect SEO by leaking PageRank or appearing low quality?
For example if I have 300 words and embed 10 videos from YouTube or 10 pins from Pinterest on my page instead of hosting them on my domain.
Does my page send away PageRank away through outbound links ...
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Delivering the optimal image experience to all from website regardless of device
I was deeply involved in other work and out of the blue, the co-owner of the site informs me that the website isn't 100% right for all people. While he isn't technically inclined compared to me, this ...
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Internal links URL and SEO [duplicate]
I was wondering if one is better off to have relative URL's for internal links vs absolute URL's?
<a href="aboutus.html">About us </a>
vs
<a href="http://www.example.com/aboutus.html"...
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Does target blank on internal links affect Google Analytics and search engines in any way?
We have a news site where many articles have "Read more" links. These internal links are often set with the attribute target="_blank", links opens in a new tab.
Does it have any affect on Google ...
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How can I link prospect without coming across as slimy?
I've received what I believe is a spammy enough link prospecting email. (I have a relatively large site including numerous short works.) It left me with a couple of questions about how I should be ...
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Tag products on Facebook: Direct link to shop?
There is a new featured recently released by Facebook which allows you to add products to a Facebook page, and lets you tag them in images. ( https://www.facebook.com/business/help/1655062744733202 )
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Correct way(s) of separating URLs of static pages from main content
Let's say I have a dictionary-like website where I have canonical URLs like example.com/egregious which displays the definition of the word "egregious".
However, I have a couple of "static pages" ...
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Will changing my Amazon Affiliate links affect my SEO?
I recently downloaded the plug-in Eazy Azon to enable geo-linking for my Amazon Affiliates.
I have one post in particular that is highly ranked on Google. According to Easy Azon, I need to replace ...
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Is link juice distributed equally to all links on the root page?
How is link juice divided from the navbar?
I have inner pages in the navbar that are example.com/product1/ but I am concerned that because it does not have a /subdir/product1/ that it is just seen ...
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