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keithlight57

Joined: Apr 01, 2005

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Posted: 07/31/2005 11:46 am

I launched my business website (web and graphic design) in February. It was my own stupid fault but Google has only this month (July) accepted all the pages of my site because I was using Flash links to the rest of my site on my Home page. Now that I'm finally on the long road to a ranking, my question is this, and I'm sorry if it's a stupid one:- What is the coding procedure for linking to other sites? If you put another site's URL on your page, all it does is give the Google spider a reason to leave your site. I know linking is fundamental. I know it's got to be "on subject", but I have yet to understand the no doubt very simple coding procedure for linking to another site. Should I go out and buy "SEO for Dummies" or can someone give me a straight answer?

Many thanks!!

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g1smd

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Joined: Jul 28, 2002

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Posted: 07/31/2005 12:09 pm

Links are: <a href="--the URL here--" title="--popup tooltip text here--">--the link text here--</a>

That's it. Google does not so much randomly bumble around the web following links one at a time in a random manner. It does something a little different: the robot gets a URL to crawl from its central database, and then accesses that page and reads the whole page into its system. It then extracts all the URLs from the page, and adds all of those to its cental database. It then asks the database to give it the next URL to crawl. Typically you will see your index page crawled a few times, then after a week or so, it might go deeper for a while, then after a while go deeper still, and so on.

Linking to other sites is not a bad thing. Link to related sites that are good for your visitors.

I use only these formats for links:

/
/pagename.html
/folder/
/folder/pagename.html
or
http://www.domain.com/
http://www.domain.com/pagename.html
http://www.domain.com/folder/
http://www.domain.com/folder/pagename.html

Change .html to .php or .asp as appropriate.

When you link to an index page, don't include the filename in the link. End with the domain or folder followed only by a trailing / on the URL.

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