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Is it okay for SEO to wrap block elements in a link?
Yes, it is fine and even advisable to put block elements inside an a element where appropriate, as long as the browser supports HTML5 (all modern browsers do):
The a element may be wrapped around ...
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I offer an embeddable widget that links back to my site. How to avoid being penalized from exact match anchor text?
My answer doesn't directly answer your question but states why you should not be doing this.
Google considers these as low quality links and may penalize you for them. Having these links will not ...
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Should a single page website use anchor tags or separate URLs for sections for best SEO?
With websites that have smaller amounts of content, I suggest taking advantage of the many suggested practices Google recommends and offers.
Using both anchor text and page based URL's can be ...
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Can a URL with a # anchor be redirected in .htaccess?
No.
The anchor is a browser side only parameter which is not sent to the server.
You either need to transform the #anchor into a query string or a path, or have some JavaScript that understands how ...
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Should a separate link or a single link be given to the image and text?
With the single link option search engines will treat the image's ALT text as if it is the anchor text of a traditional link.
Ex: <a href="url">This is Anchor Text</a>
Possible ...
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Separate URLs on tabbed content - good or bad for SEO?
I would say you should consider the usability aspect greatly.
SEO:
The only time you may like to have separate URL for info and review when you would like to monitor the performance of one vs other.
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Will quick links to sub sections look like keyword stuffing to search engines?
It's not keyword stuffing to have the same combination of words on a page if that combination is helpful to the user. In your case, the table of contents and the h2 tag duplication is likely very ...
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Footer backlink spam on Wordpress
This isn't necessarily to do with backlinks from the friends blog. If you go into Google Webmaster Tools you will be able to get a list of the backlinks to your site. By using this data you will be ...
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Do you get penalised for duplicate keyword anchor text within your own website?
I do not see where internal links of this type are penalized. However, it highly advisable not to take this tactic for two very good reasons.
1] It would be rightly seen as manipulation and any ...
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Setting up site links for a one-page scrolling site: Can anchored links be used?
I can personally confirm that at least as of today, google will add jumplinks for singlepage scrolling sites...but I have not found a way to get sitelinks for a single-page site.
To get jumplinks ...
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Setting up site links for a one-page scrolling site: Can anchored links be used?
It's likely google won't index sections of one page as separate entries in search results as it could provide a rather poor user experience.
I definitely wouldn't want to use google to search for ...
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Can generating static links via javascript be legal and recognized?
Automatically generated content is not the same as programmatically generated markup. The Google guideline you linked to does not relate to the change you're proposing.
Whilst I'm all for improving ...
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Do you get penalised for duplicate keyword anchor text within your own website?
I will give you short and direct answer, you will never be penalized for this as you have mentioned they are occurring naturally. Internal linking is a good or best way to crawl the web pages of the ...
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Name attribute is obsolete, what is the correct behavior when dealing with anchors?
For HTML5, name attribute is now deprecated, so that means to use id in place of name. Otherwise, everything else is the same.
<a> is NOT deprecated.
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Restoring the balance between anchor text of external links
I would no worry too much about Google flagging those old links as spam. What we have seen lately is that (Specially since the last algorithm update) Google is just demoting or ignoring those links ...
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Indexable anchor links
Found some answers in this blog post, http://blog.analytics-toolkit.com/2014/virtual-pageviews-google-analytics-why-how-when
Explaining ways to achieve it with virtual pages.
But I think that means ...
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It's possible to Index by google page's anchor (#) as a page
John who is Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google has given a answer for your question.
We don't index those separately, so if you're using them all for the
same page, then that's totally fine :)
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Can in-page anchors link to themselves for SEO?
Hurt? No reason why it would.
I just don't understand why you would want to do that in the first place.
What you can do which does have an impact is creating page-jumps and putting that at the ...
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naming HTML anchors
we keep all of the anchors in our tables short and related to the sections they're linking to. This could avoid accidental typos and saves a fraction of a second when creating these anchors. ...
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Make a link for an address that opens the default map app
The closest thing is the GEO URI scheme. It can link to map coordinates (latitude and longitude) like:
<a href="geo:37.786971,-122.399677">
Stack exchange doesn't let me create a GEO ...
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hreflang - do I need to prefix links on the different versions of my pages?
You should update all your links to include the language. This is because:
Googlebot doesn't send a variety of Accept-Language headers to the same URL. It expects the language to be specified in ...
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Could SEO be negatively impacted if an anchor tag has been used without an href attribute in several places?
I think you should be fine. Anchor tags aren't always used with href attributes anyway. You can use the name attribute, which is used when linking to different parts of the page.
<a name="...
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Image alt VS title attributes while inside anchor tag SEO
The image tag doesn't have a title attribute, so you won't be able to use that. You also shouldn't be doing the option, because the alt tag will already show when the image can't be loaded. To inform ...
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Is it okay for SEO to wrap block elements in a link?
I would like to disagree with @MaximillianLaumeister. UX can be achieved with simple javascript and IMHO is even better in case of accessibility (readers will not read entire block as link text).
And ...
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Best element to use for simple anchoring, avoiding potential SEO penalties for lack of content and purpose of the element
I have a similar issue with my site, but I handle it differently. I intercept clicks on anchor links with JavaScript and let JS handle them. This has two advantages:
It allows smooth scrolling ...
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Do descriptive over basic anchor links have any bearing on SEO?
When is the last time you noticed a site being indexed with a 'HASH' within the URL, the answer is never. Google treats the hashes within a URL to be HASH Fragments and they do not use them to rank a ...
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Restoring the balance between anchor text of external links
Firstly, purchasing backlinks, a BIG NO, you shouldn't be thinking about it.
I would say, link on brand should be OK provided you got a good balance in compare to other keywords. Think in this way, ...
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how to create Google Analytics goal for anchor click to another website?
I would advise setting up event tracking on the link. Event tracking can be implemented with the following syntax for Google Universal Analytics
ga('send', 'event', [eventCategory], [eventAction], [...
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SEO difference of img and anchor tag
There will be a difference.
To begin, any link value, semantic or otherwise, is primarily given to the target resource, typically a page, however, in your case an image file. This is not absolute, of ...
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How can I get the anchor text in Google Search results for my site?
The links you're talking about are called sitelinks. Google's official page on the topic can be found here.
There is no way to guarantee that sitelinks will appear. Google decides whether or not they ...
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