Questions tagged [hyperlink]
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Can I repeat link labels several times on a web page without hurting SEO by using meta attributes?
I have a page with about a dozen resources. Each resource has a title and a description, then links to play a video tutorial, go to a lesson on the topic, and to visit the documentation pages. The ...
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Changing hyperlinks on my Web page to use the PAT2PDF site instead of USPTO - are there copyright issues regarding third-party pages?
I have a Web site. On one of the pages of my site, there are two hyperlinks to USPTO (US Patent & Trademark Office) resources, among other content and hyperlinks. One of these two hyperlinks is of ...
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Using URLs as anchor texts
If using a URL as anchor text (= visible link text) - is this bad practice and why? Are there any good reasons to use a URL as anchor text?
Example: URL as anchor text:
<a href="https://...
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How should canonical and alternate links be defined?
I'm afraid I couldn't understand the information available about this feature. A canonical link should be the "canonical" or "preferred" version of a web page. An alternate link ...
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Is it a good practice to use 'nofollow' on internal links in a multi-language website?
I've a website which is in en-US and fr-FR and I'm building links for the en version of the website.
Should I put all the fr links on the English version nofollow? Is it a good practice?
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How to include a link in email that opens an Android app if available, but opens the website if not?
In HTML code for an email is there a way to have a fallback URL when a primary URL cannot be handled?
For example:
Open app when using Android
Open website when clicking on it on a desktop
I know how ...
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SEO impact of adding a list of our clients' websites at end of site map page?
We're a design company.
I wonder if adding a list of client websites we have completed as a section after our site map webpage (rather than XML file) will hurt our SEO? (or even help our SEO?)
They ...
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How to hyperlink to file stored on local intranet via Windows share (SMB)?
We're deploying OSticket (uses Apache 2.4 & PHP-7.0-fpm) and want to hyperlink to network shared files (eg \\servername\foo)
But this proves to be very difficult as this file is not in the webroot ...
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Is there any SEO issue to give nofollow for mailto links?
I have seen some of the websites who are using nofollow at mail address.
I want to know about it that if I use it so will I get any benefit from SEO purpose.
Example
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Any SEO benefit to a page linking to itself?
I'm taking over a website for a client after they ended their working relationship with the SEO company they was working with.
On the website, the SEO company repeatedly linked keyword phrases to ...
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Is there any SEO benefit to having blog post links on home page?
Should blog posts be linked on the home page or is it sufficient to have a /blog page with all the links on it?
I know the home page generally has the largest page authority so I was wondering ...
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Can rel="prev" and rel="next" attributes be placed on elements other than <link>?
Is this the absolute ONLY correct way to indicate a paginated series of pages to search engines?
<head>
<link href="www.example.co.uk/news/?page=8" rel="prev">
<link href="www....
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Will HTTP hyperlinks on HTTPS pages trigger mixed content warnings?
I am about switch to HTTPS for a site with about 1000 pages. All external libraries for the theme are secure and all internal ones will be changed over via 301 redirects.
What about anchor links ...
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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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Apache ERROR : The given path was above the root path
I am using apache web server for my project. I am creating hyperlinks for local files in my system. The hyperlinks are getting displayed but the problem is when i click it says 403 Forbidden and gives ...
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When linking to an image as "download", get other text associated with the image for Google image search
I have an HTML code like this:
<a href="http://example.com/kitten_image.jpg" title="Cute Kittens" download>
<span title="Cute Kittens">Download</span>
</a>
The problem with ...
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Use of subname.example.com format in phishing
I have noticed some phishing emails that copy format that Google or Gmail use in their URLs for account login or OAuth logins:
https://accounts.google.com/
I've seen URLs like
http://accounts....
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Is there any SEO benefit for the h1 of a post to contain a hyperlink?
I've seen a lot of websites where posts have h1 headers that contain hyperlinks:
<h1 class="title">
<a href="link">Title</a>
</h1>
enter code here
I don't know if this ...
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Are anchor back links without text effective for SEO or black hat?
<a href="http://example.com" title="my keyword"></a>
Can I build back links like this?
Is this black hat or white hat?
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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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Is it SEO safe to embed the H2 or H3 tag in a hyperlink element?
I'm making a new layout for our website, and I want to make a list using the unordered list tag (ul) to show our offers. But because of our design I would like to use the h3 tag into an a element.
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Hidden "< prev" and "next >" pagination links on first and last page respectively
I'm using the Yii Framework, with Bootstrap 3, and have noticed the default pagination behavior on the first and last pages is a little strange.
On page 2 of 3 the links look like:
< Prev | 1 | 2 ...
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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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Can CSS cause a hyperlink to become inactive? [closed]
Please excuse me if this is the wrong site to post this type of issue to. However, after examining all of the Stack Exchange websites, this looked like the best one to post my question to:
I came ...
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Internal links to pages vs. sitemap.xml links to pages
I have a page that is not linked to from anywhere, but it is listed in sitemap.xml.
It will be crawled and display in the SERP.
Would it be preferable, from a SEO perspective, to have the page ...