Questions tagged [links]
A reference to another webpage that the user can follow (click on) to access that document.
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WordPress permalinks with the category and the postname throw a "Page Cannot Be Found" error
Background: I have developed and managed many WordPress sites over the years. Only one of these sites has this problem, but, based on comments on the WordPress.org forum, others are having the same ...
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How does the home page work at the top of a website navigation hierchy? Is that for dropdown menus?
This might be a simple question BUT - I'm having a hard time understanding internal navigation, specifically navbar links which apparently should form a hierarchy, as seen by image below from MOZ
My ...
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Link to the current page okay for SEO?
I have a website and one SEO guy told me to remove cyclic links that link to the current page. We don't work with him anymore. So I can't ask for details.
So are this links bad for and should be ...
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Why can I access a file from my web server even though viewing the directory URL is a broken link?
I'm trying to understand how I'm able to access a PDF file from my website: /Documents/Publications/2015/file.pdf when /Documents comes up as a broken link. It appears to be non-existant.
Why can I ...
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Should I use rel="nofollow" on links from mirror sites to avoid a possible link scheme
I host a network of service websites that consists of 1 main website and several mirrored websites under different domains; think torrent, proxy, or download sites. Users come to my service but there ...
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Twitter default widget, links, negative seo and latest Google Webmaster Central latest blog post: "a reminder about widget links"
With the latest post from Google Webmaster Central we're reminded about the quality of non-editorially established links and the rel attribute of the link ideally needing to be nofollow.
For my ...
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Issue with huge amount of inbound links for multiple sub folder website
I have an issue that I really cannot wrap my head around and was hoping that someone could help me with.
I manage a e-commerce website that is active on multiple markets. Two with a marketspecific ...
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Do inbound & outbound links on canonicalized pages carry any SEO weight?
So, I have a page [A] that has canonical tag with URL pointing to a page [B].
Do inbound & outbound links on page [A] carry any SEO weight if they aren't nofollowed?
Is the weight of links on ...
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Speed comparison - absolute vs relative path links
Let's say I want to link to a parent directory (http://example.com/library/) from a subdirectory (http://example.com/library/html/basics/).
The link to the parent directory can be:
href="../../"
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Do you need to put your product category pages link in the nav menu bar for better SEO?
Our current product category pages are not in our nav menu and can only be reached via filters on our product page.
Does having direct links from the nav menu to the product category pages improve ...
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Google Websmaster Tools crawl errors reporting a link that does not exist
Google Webmaster Tools seems to be giving me an erroneous report. The crawl Errors (Smart Phone tab) still shows a link to http://mypubguide.com/good-pubs/Blacko from http://mypubguide.com/good-pubs/...
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How to make a clickable link with HTML Editey
I am an HTML beginner and I'm making a website using HTML Editey. I know how to do things like make bold text or make an underline under the letter or number, but I don't know how to make a clickable ...
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A site with a directory of thousands of links can get blacklisted by Google for one link to a site with malware
As we all know Google detects malware on websites and if found it will add a warning to that site in its search results. It will also add it to a blacklist that Chrome (and other browsers?) use, so if ...
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Unnaturally high number of links from domain
Please consider the following image, from Google Webmaster Tools
I have these unnaturally high link counts coming in from lowish Page Rank Domains (MOZ Score 13)
Is this natural? Is this hurting my ...
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Making google forgive us right away when accidentally publishing incorrect links (noarchive doesn't work)
So this is what happened.
One day, I changed my code on my site to try to make things more compliant with adsense. Several hours later, I check the crawl errors report GSC only to see a string of ...
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If you have reciprocal linking sites, and 1 site removes the link to the other does that site now get the befit / value of the link?
If site A links to site B, and then Site B links back to Site A. This will create a reciprocal link and neither site will get the value of each others links.
If site B then removes the link to site ...
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Are spaces in "href" valid?
Is <a href=" #id "> (note spaces) correct (X)HTML?
Does it mean the same as <a href="#id">?
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SEO impact of using non-Latin characters in URL
Is there a negative SEO impact if I use non-Latin characters in my URL?
For example, suppose I want to have a page about sweets. I am targeting the keyword お菓子 which is in Japanese. Should I go for ...
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Does Google punish pyramid linking and does reverse negative SEO exist?
There are thousands of online companies that sell various linking building services, such as:
Private Blog Networks (PBN)
User Generated Links (forum signatures, blog comments etc)
Pyramid Link ...
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Link titles - Any best practices you could cite? [closed]
When building <a href title=""> tags, are there any formal or informal UX&SEO best practices you ever came across into ? Please season your answer with as much experience detailing as ...
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Count clicks to each of two external sites in Google Analytics
My client is a theatre company and they have lists of shows on their site. When the user clicks on a show, they get the option to book a ticket via site X or site Y.
They want to know how many ...
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Is it correct to put a link in a bold anchor text?
I always ask myself, is it correct to put a link in bold anchor text (or a text with <strong> / <b> tags). If I am not wrong, this is like saying to Google that that word is doubly ...
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Joomla creating /2-uncategorised/ page's, duplicate content?
I have added some pages to a Joomla website (by adding articles). At first, these articles were not linked to the right menu yet. So the link was something like example.com/2-uncategorised/25-bureau-...
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Is dofollow linking from a long list of items allowed by Google?
I've just finished writing a list of 190 items. I'd like to make some links of the list dofollow, but I don't know if Google still allows dofollow links and how many per article.
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If i have multiple links to the same site on a page is it better to have only 1 passing link equity or all passing link equity?
SHORT QUESTION
If i have multiple links to the same site on a page is it better to have only 1 passing link equity (and the rest rel="nofollow") or all passing link equity ?
LONG QUESTION, WITH ...
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What does it mean if Google has its own links to your page displayed in Google Webmaster Tools?
I am just curious about the following:
When viewing links to my site in Google Webmaster Tools I see all my usual links, but recently something I find strange has popped up:
Google itself is ...
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Is it a good practice to make low quality links un-crawlable to increase link juice?
Is it a good practice to make low quality links un-crawlable for search engine spiders? Usually we put nofollow but that divides link juice. We would like to increase link juice to all other do-...
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Should I redirect non-existing m.example.com links if they are appearing in Google search results?
I was wondering if it is worth it to redirect non existing m.example.com links that are being displayed in Google, or if it is better to just delete these from Google (if that is possible)?
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Is it OK for SEO to host product manuals from the manufacturer myself, or should I link externally?
I run an eCommerce website and I have been thinking about adding PDF downloads to my product pages. These manuals and product sheets are typically hosted by the product manufacturer, though not all ...
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Wordpress social icons not linking to social media account?
I'm new to WP so maybe I'm looking at the wrong place but-
I have social icons at the top of my website (as is default by the WP Theme). I want the icons (FB, Twitter, YT, Linkedin, Skype) to link to ...
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Is linking to primary sources or secondary sources better for SEO?
Okay, so here is a question based on my old-school journalism training/knowledge versus my modern web developer knowledge.
Does using primary sources for a linked URL versus a secondary source have ...
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Should query string parameter values in a URI have single quotes around them?
I'm passing variables through the URI string, like this:
example.com?a=first&b=second
Everything works as intended, but when I pass the source code through the W3 validator, it's flagging them ...
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Can generating static links via javascript be legal and recognized?
I have a page of photo thumbnails on my site. On the page, a large number of links are grouped together consecutively, and the links take up at least 1/2 the HTML code size.
Here's an example:
<...
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Website being bombarded by non-existent URLs
I noticed a newly registered domain is being hit by non-existent URLs like
/pithy/597/47363-1117.doc
/pithy/597/47363-1117.doc
/2015/150728.html
etc...
It's being hit for thousands per day which is ...
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Is it ok, from an SEO and UX perspective, to have Headings as links?
I have created a Parent Article, which briefly talks about its allocated Child Articles. Here is, typically, how I have structured the Parent Article's page ...
H1 - Parent Article
A small ...
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Search result URL as permanent link
Is it OK to have a dynamically generated result page, like Google Search result page for a specific query, put in your own website as a permanent link. For example: I search for "IT Ebooks" and copy ...
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Site-wide footer external link - is it a risk?
I want to do link exchange with another site, he is offering me footer site-wide link to my site.
This site has about 50 indexed pages on Google, this site has strong SEO data that can help my site.
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An internal search page is ranking higher than a category page for the same topic
My website posses a search engine linking to for example www.example.com/s/gaming/ where gaming is the words being searched. I also have pages for each of my categories, for example "Gaming".
My ...
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Bad to add external link in the navbar?
Is it considered a bad practice to have external links in the navbar of a website?
In my case, I am thinking of selling some of my items on a new website that I previously sold on my current website....
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Is there a reliable broken links check for https websites built with angularjs?
Couldn't really a find a decent broken links checker for https website built with AngularJS!
Mainly tested the following tools:
W3C Link Checker
Xenu's link sleuth
But they couldn't capture dynamic ...
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Is hiding text in links bad if the links are icon fonts?
I've done a few quick SEO tests of a page and they all suggest "consider adding text to links". The links they were referring to are all social icons, and are displayed using icon fonts. I've read a ...
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Should URLs with UTF8 characters be encoded in HTML?
I'm thinking of names and stuff containing accented characters.
E.g.is there a difference between:
<a href="http://example.com/thing?name=forêt">link</a>
and
<a href="http://example....
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Are text links indexed by Google?
We know that text links do not pass PageRank or signals, but say a page A contains a text link (not wrapped inside <a> </a>) to a page B and there is no other link on the net to page B and ...
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How to link to 400 "static pages" like [example.com/action/X.php] from 1 dynamic link?
I'm using Dreamweaver and running a flash gaming site with 400 games. I was updating things to add meta-data (for SEO). I wasn't sure weather to go with dynamic metadata or static metadata.
I have 1 ...
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After mod_rewrite the internal URLs are duplicated many times when crawling
I'm sure it is my mistake in mod_rewrite rules, but I can't seem to figure it out.
I've set up the rules for my new site and all works perfect, unless - I try to create a sitemap. The URLs get ...
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How to link domains hosted on one hosting account
I have several different domains hosted on one hosting account and some of these domains are linked together not because I am trying to influence page rank but because they contain related content. ...
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Can Searchbots Find Web Pages That Aren't Linked To? [duplicate]
I have read this which claims that the listed search engines are not able to show the unlinked doc&XML in its results.
My questions are
Have any one else experimented like this?
This information ...
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Outbound links in footer. Impact on SEO?
On one of my websites, the terms of conditions, rules and all the other standard notifications are stored on a "parent comany" website.
So basically they are outbound links. Because they are in the ...
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Changing links on homepage - SEO
I have a website whose ranking is constantly fluctuating on Google. On a search for my site name I could be the ranked 1st at one moment, then 20th or so a matter of hours later!
I have been tearing ...
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Is a redirect from a third-party site bad?
I'm doing backlink cleanup for a client, and came across a page with a suspicious-looking redirect to their site.
The site is relevant to the content of my client's site, and linking domain's DA isn'...
