Today I was reading on the Weblog Tools Collection (http:// weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/03/12/wp-seo-tips-design-like- a-robot/) how to boost incoming traffic by including links to site pages within the <head> section of a page. Is this condoned, does this assist SE's in crawling and indexing sites?
Right now I think it's a grey line, what do you think though?
An example of the HTML within a page listed on the URI above would be:
> An example of the HTML within a page listed on the URI above would be:
I've used them quite extensively on one site (to link HTML versions of chapters in a PDF document) - rel = next, prev and contents. I'm not persuaded it made any difference at all as far as the search engines were concerned, but the pages were all accessible via sitemaps anyway. I also don't know of any browser that exploits them.
They certainly seem to do no harm, which they shouldn't because they're formally defined in HTML.
It won't help more than good site navigation or a sitemap page on the site would. If the spider can find a page from the site navigation and/or a sitemap, it doesn't need multiple links within the site.
> Today I was reading on the Weblog Tools Collection (http:// > weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/03/12/wp-seo-tips-design-like- > a-robot/) how to boost incoming traffic by including links to site > pages within the <head> section of a page. Is this condoned, does this > assist SE's in crawling and indexing sites?
> Right now I think it's a grey line, what do you think though?
> An example of the HTML within a page listed on the URI above would be:
It may burn bandwidth for your visitors due to prefetching. SEOwise I think link elements pointing to blog archives are more than useless, since most templates provide these URLs in A elements. Also, where's the point to boost archive pages? Better make category pages and top posts linked more prominently. Sebastian
> It won't help more than good site navigation or a sitemap page on the > site would. If the spider can find a page from the site navigation > and/or a sitemap, it doesn't need multiple links within the site.
> Craig
> On Mar 12, 4:45 am, illumini wrote:
> > Today I was reading on the Weblog Tools Collection (http:// > > weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/03/12/wp-seo-tips-design-like- > > a-robot/) how to boost incoming traffic by including links to site > > pages within the <head> section of a page. Is this condoned, does this > > assist SE's in crawling and indexing sites?
> > Right now I think it's a grey line, what do you think though?
> > An example of the HTML within a page listed on the URI above would be:
Thanks Phil, cass and Sebastian for your speedy opinions.
To take this thread further, should the placing links in document headers be recommended as an SEO practice or is it a waste of time to no reward? Can this be validated as generating higher organic rankings, or is this just an inconvenient alternative to a sitemap?
> It may burn bandwidth for your visitors due to prefetching. SEOwise I > think link elements pointing to blog archives are more than useless, > since most templates provide these URLs in A elements. Also, where's > the point to boost archive pages? Better make category pages and top > posts linked more prominently. > Sebastian
> On Mar 12, 12:56 pm, cass-hacks wrote:
> > It won't help more than good site navigation or a sitemap page on the > > site would. If the spider can find a page from the site navigation > > and/or a sitemap, it doesn't need multiple links within the site.
> > Craig
> > On Mar 12, 4:45 am, illumini wrote:
> > > Today I was reading on the Weblog Tools Collection (http:// > > > weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/03/12/wp-seo-tips-design-like- > > > a-robot/) how to boost incoming traffic by including links to site > > > pages within the <head> section of a page. Is this condoned, does this > > > assist SE's in crawling and indexing sites?
> > > Right now I think it's a grey line, what do you think though?
> > > An example of the HTML within a page listed on the URI above would be:
> To take this thread further, should the placing links in document > headers be recommended as an SEO practice or is it a waste of time to > no reward? Can this be validated as generating higher organic > rankings, or is this just an inconvenient alternative to a sitemap?
The site I did it on extensively was a new one and it performed fairly well, but no better than I would expect in such a sector.
I'm reasonably certain that the SEO benefit, if any, is very small. Time is better spent elsewhere.
Reminds me of Daron's spider trap 1999-2001 or so ... didn't turn out to be effective considering thousands of sites disappearing from the SERPs once Matt spotted the technique. Illumini, that's not really comparable but the intent is equal. Don't trick the engines, optimize for users. There is no such thing as a working SEO shortcut discussed anywhere on the net. Sebastian
> Thanks Phil, cass and Sebastian for your speedy opinions.
> To take this thread further, should the placing links in document > headers be recommended as an SEO practice or is it a waste of time to > no reward? Can this be validated as generating higher organic > rankings, or is this just an inconvenient alternative to a sitemap?
> On Mar 12, 10:01 pm, Sebastian wrote:
> > It may burn bandwidth for your visitors due to prefetching. SEOwise I > > think link elements pointing to blog archives are more than useless, > > since most templates provide these URLs in A elements. Also, where's > > the point to boost archive pages? Better make category pages and top > > posts linked more prominently. > > Sebastian
> > On Mar 12, 12:56 pm, cass-hacks wrote:
> > > It won't help more than good site navigation or a sitemap page on the > > > site would. If the spider can find a page from the site navigation > > > and/or a sitemap, it doesn't need multiple links within the site.
> > > Craig
> > > On Mar 12, 4:45 am, illumini wrote:
> > > > Today I was reading on the Weblog Tools Collection (http:// > > > > weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/03/12/wp-seo-tips-design-like- > > > > a-robot/) how to boost incoming traffic by including links to site > > > > pages within the <head> section of a page. Is this condoned, does this > > > > assist SE's in crawling and indexing sites?
> > > > Right now I think it's a grey line, what do you think though?
> > > > An example of the HTML within a page listed on the URI above would be:
