BillyRayPreachersSon
Programmer
I've been searching around trying to find out if having a link to the current page is bad for SEO. I've found a few pages that tell you it is, but don't go into details.
Here's the scenario. We have a site that contains 4 basic top-level links:
Home, Latest News, Photos, Videos
This is a static nav include on every page, so each of the above pages would have the same nav.
We've been advised by an SEO consultancy that this is bad, and that on the home page we should have no other links back to the homepage (including the clickable logo), and on the latest page we should have no other links to the latest page.
Basically, no page should link back to itself, including via the standard site navigation.
Accessibility issues aside, can anyone give me any concrete evidence (or otherwise) that can tell me if this really is a bad thing to do, and if so, why?
Thanks!
Dan
Coedit Limited - Delivering standards compliant, accessible web solutions
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Here's the scenario. We have a site that contains 4 basic top-level links:
Home, Latest News, Photos, Videos
This is a static nav include on every page, so each of the above pages would have the same nav.
We've been advised by an SEO consultancy that this is bad, and that on the home page we should have no other links back to the homepage (including the clickable logo), and on the latest page we should have no other links to the latest page.
Basically, no page should link back to itself, including via the standard site navigation.
Accessibility issues aside, can anyone give me any concrete evidence (or otherwise) that can tell me if this really is a bad thing to do, and if so, why?
Thanks!
Dan
Coedit Limited - Delivering standards compliant, accessible web solutions
[tt]Dan's Page [blue]@[/blue] Code Couch
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