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Questions tagged [hyperlink]

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Anchor tag inside

or

inside anchor tag: which is better?

I am trying to use

tags on my blog for the post title and came across one problem. Title is hyperlinked. Case 1:

xyz

case 2:

xyz

 Which one is better in terms of SEO?
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Should plus be encoded in mailto: hyperlinks?

When placing an email address with an address tag (aka sub-addressing) in a mailto hyperlink … mail us now! … should the plus in the email be URL encoded? mail…
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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 linked within the natural flow of the site? For example,…
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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…
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What is meaning of "nofollow me noreferrer" in a rel attribute of a link?

Recently I was checking the source code of a website. I was expecting the links to do follow or no follow but what I observed was this: What is the meaning of this full line?
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How can I stop search engines from crawling tel links?

I have a site that has a call now button for mobile device to directly dial from the site. This works fine, but I am getting errors on my SEO reporting tool. It is throwing errors for every page that has this code on it. Basically it looks like the…
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Do website owners have a right to not allow linking their site from other sites?

You can search for this phrase on Google/Bing 'Hypertext or other links to this website are prohibited without the consent of …' and you'll see a very long list of companies that state the same about hyperlinks in their terms of use. What is the…
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Can a element's href attribute be relative?

Can I use: to link pages with different languages for SEO (recommended for example by Google)? Can that URL be relative as in the example above, or does it have to be full (start with…
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Preventing a link on a page from being indexed and followed

I have read the post about how nofollow value impacts on crawlers/indexing. However the information from the post answers end on 2012. In my case, a have a file page that is indexed by Google. On this page, however, there's a download link (ending…
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Does Googlebot crawl items that look like URLs in HTML5 data-* attributes?

Google is discovering some URLs in GWT which I'm surprised it could discover. The only place these are linked from are as follows:
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    Unwanted hyperlinks containing 'msocom1' inserted into my WordPress content

    I have found several unwanted nonsensical hyperlinks inserted into unpublished content on my website (self-hosted WordPress). Four of these are to "#_msocom_1". Googling on "#_msocom_1" returns 519 results; Googling on "msocom1" returns 602 results.…
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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: Download The problem with the above code is Google search engine is crawling the image with the…
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    how can I find out which websites are linking to mine?

    How can I have a RSS of new sites that link to mine? I would like to know which sites are linking to us. Is there any way to do that?
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    Difference between linking to specific page or folder

    Is there a difference between linking to www.example.com/site/index.html and www.example.com/site/ since it'll point to the same page? I point everything i can to a folder on my website, i just think it looks better when the browser doesn't display…
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