Tue 28 Oct 2008
Internal Links – Only The First Link Counts in Google?
Blurb by Shaun Anderson (Hobo)
I thought I would share the results of another simple test I did to see how Google treats internal links.
What does Google count, when it finds two links on the same page going to the same internal destination page.
I surmised:
- Google might count one link, the first it finds as it indexes a page
- Google might count them all (I think unlikely)
- Google might count perhaps 55 characters of ALL of the available links (could be useful)
OK – From this test, and the results on this site anyways, testing links internal to this site, it seems Google only counted the first link when it came to ranking the target page. (more…)
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