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Avoid Link Candidates that Stop Short!
December 23, 2005
It’s not acceptable for someone to stop short with your wife, and it shouldn’t be acceptable for someone to stop short with your link!
Most times, you can predict that a link candidate will stop short. If other links on the page indicate a predilection for the stop short, get out of the car! Unless you feel that the stop short link will directly send traffic, save your time for link candidates that will give you full value for your link.
When link candidates stop short, their links do not impact your search engine relevance. Below are the most common stop short tactics:
- seoblog.intrapromote.com – A url link only tells the search engines that your site is about the url.
- seoblog.intrapromote.com/ – If links are not clickable, they do not tell search engines anything.
- SEO Speedwagon Blog – If you see JavaScript when you mouse over a link, assume search engines will never see it.
- Click here – Your site is not about click here, so avoid sites that tell search engines your site is about click here.
Your time is your greatest commodity. Devote it to the quality sites that also offer clean text links.
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posted by Tom Lustina at December 23, 2005 10:06 AM
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