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Link to full domain on each website menu - does it affect Analytics or SEO
What you're describing are absolute links (https://example.com/page1.htm) and relative links (/page1.htm).
It really doesn't make any difference for SEO or analytics.
The advantages/disadvantages of ...
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How can I internally link to pages while keeping minimalist aesthetics?
I do have an idea that may very well satisfy the people you work for, but I still recommend your idea of having navigation stand out, but since your bosses come with not-so-wonderful requests, I'll ...
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Are header navigation menu links considered to be internal links by Google?
Every link that points to the same domain as the one that it's on is considered an internal link.
Being linked from within the menu links on every page is likely to be considered more important than ...
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Routing in the most SEO friendly way with Angular?
There is more SEO friendly way. Instead of calling function that will do redirect, you can do it directly in HTML.
<a [routerLink]="'/'">Home</a>
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Bad to add external link in the navbar?
Question put to John Mueller:
A: Just link naturally. The placement of a link within a page doesn't make it "safe" or "unsafe".
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SEO impact of breaking one nested menu into two flat menus
There will be no negative impact on this from the SEO vantage point. Maintaining a navigation tree is more of an UX thing than an SEO thing. As long as both the pages are crawlable by spiders, you ...
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SEO impact of breaking one nested menu into two flat menus
Okay. This gets a bit complicated. While no-one short of a search engineer can tell you what any search engine will do specifically, we know a few things based upon what Google tells us in a whole ...
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Menu code in footer, visually fixed on top
Right now, definitely myth. We know that Google reads CSS and JavaScript to "see" a page as a user does.
Previously, almost certainly myth. As far as I know, having navigation above content has ...
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How to make a <select> navigation search engine friendly?
I wouldn't be surprised if Google is already able to cope with this navigation "pattern", as it is reasonably common and Google is "good" at processing JavaScript these days.
However, this could be ...
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SEO - Responsive Website and Duplicated Menus
Most mobile menu's are "opened" via a button click, essentially opening in a modal window of some sort or another. When it comes to a website meeting accessibility standards - those menu's need to be ...
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Is it ok, from an SEO and UX perspective, to have Headings as links?
H1 should be the same as the article's title, so it has no sense that H1 becomes a link.
H2 could be marked up as link, but as an anchor, like <h2><a name="h2anchor">text</a></h2&...
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What is the difference between a facet and a category?
Faceted navigation is meant to have multiple facets applied at the same time. Most eCommerce sites won't let you select several categories at once.
Facets are often built from the product ...
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Many websites miss the HTML id or name attributes (no support for fragment URI's), what to do about it?
It is impossible to tell why this is less popular but we can make a few guesses:
Dynamically loaded content doesn't work with fragments because the content is not there and a fragment does not cause ...
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Many websites miss the HTML id or name attributes (no support for fragment URI's), what to do about it?
The ID scrolling attribute using # links is very useful and you're right, it's probably underutilized. There are some things to consider however. If you're using the ID attribute for this purpose, ...
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Are facets and categories the same thing?
Where I have come a little stuck, is in establishing the difference
between a Facet and a Child Category; primarily when it comes to SEO.
Stephen Ostermiller's answer to your previous question ...
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Can the positioning of the navigation bar influence SEO?
The placement of the nav bar has no effect on SEO.
According to John Mueller, Google's Senior Webmaster Trends Analyst, the positioning of internal links on a website do not impact the site's SEO:
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Will adding an external ecommerce link to a site navigation effect seo?
No it will not seen as malicious - IF the linked site is not a "bad neighbour".
Although it will have an effect on SEO as it is an outgoing link on every page, which the crawler will follow.
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Can you change your URL when clicking links to different sections on the same page?
The simplest thing to do would be to just use the same fragment identifier (link with the # symbol) that you are already using. Is there any reason you can't add that as the link in your bread crumb.
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Is adding SiteNavigationElement properties to child menu items required?
Parents should always have siblings, but you can use as few as you like, or as many as you like. Since your using SiteNavigationElement, you can use any of the childs from:
Properties from ...
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Adding breadcrumbs on a particular section of the website but not another
Google follow markup on page itself, it does not care about your directory/section. If some pages have markup and if it follow their markup guidelines, then it will display rich snippet into search ...
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Link to full domain on each website menu - does it affect Analytics or SEO
Browsers and search engine fulfill the URL with the rest of the data. If you use page1.html, on http://www.example.com/dir1/, they read a link for http://www.example.com/dir1/page1.html. If you use /...
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Could moving the text off screen be an SEO workaround to not having text in the nav?
I found that this is against Google Guidelines and shouldn't be done.
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66353
Hiding text or links in your content to manipulate Google’s search
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Could moving the text off screen be an SEO workaround to not having text in the nav?
If you hide only one anchor text with any dirty css trick, then it is fine. Such a thing won't impact in seo, unless webmaster main AIM is not about manipulating search ranking.
Search engine bot ...
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Is link juice distributed equally to all links on the root page?
Based on Google's Pagerank algorithm which the published in 1998, all links are treated equally. This is also called the "Random Surfer" model where value is assigned because the hypothetical person ...
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How does the home page work at the top of a website navigation hierchy? Is that for dropdown menus?
To help with question #1 the Moz hierarchy image represents a typical web site layout with one starting home page usually called index.html. From that first page users can go to any of the sub-pages (...
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Building menus without nested lists impacts on SEO?
its lesser your menu, but rather nesting of your urls/folders, which makes impact on SEO. It means: flatter nesting == better for SEO, because of lesser efforts for Googlebot.
About menu: it should ...
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Google bot and navigation on a one page website
The clear answer is No!
Google indexing is based on URLs and example.com/about is equal with example.com/about#anykey
So you must create two separate URLs. One for About Us and one for Contact.
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Google bot and navigation on a one page website
This is based on my experience and the good results that I got.
I create an HTML version of each "page" and use an iframe, model or js to capture the external page. So even though it is still a one ...
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Do you need to put your product category pages link in the nav menu bar for better SEO?
Yes.
By linking to categories from the main navigation, every page links to every category. This indicates the importance of those pages, provides better user experience, provides many more paths ...
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