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An inbound link is one from someone else’s website to some content on your website. This is good because if that someone has a a popular website, then prospective customers may follow the link. From Google’s perspective, the number of these inbound links to your site and the authority (or trustworthiness) of the sites which [...]

An internal link is a link from one part of your website to another part of your website. The main menu on your website is probably a good place to find internal links to other pages on your website because typically, all the links in your main menu will point to internal pages. These internal [...]

The term “reciprocal link” describes the practice of exchanging links between two or more websites. A ‘you link to me, I’ll link to you’ type situation. This practice is often employed in the misguided belief that Google will rank both sites higher. At best, this is simply a waste of time. At worst, Google may penalise [...]

A beginner’s guide to web links We’ve been asked a question on our Facebook page about links and why they may or may not be important to a website’s position in Google’s results (AKA “SERPs”), so we’ve put together a number of definitions that will help you understand links – particularly if you’re just starting [...]

A “linking domain” is the main address (often where the homepage lives) of a website that has a page (or more) which links to your website. For example, our friends at TXM Recruit link to us from this page: http://www.txmrecruit.co.uk/about/partners.aspx Therefore the linking domain is www.txmrecruit.co.uk because that is the domain that holds the page [...]