Does linking from one page(A) to another page(B) [Internal link] reduce the rank of the (A) page? Assume that page A in search engine ranks 2nd, If I link to page B internally Does it affect the rank of page A?
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There are lot's of questions here about passing link juice to other pages, including .  I've read several of them over the months, but I always come away wondering the same question.  Does linking to another page, dilute or burn some of the link juice the linking page has already earned?  For example, if my current page has for example, a link juice of 10, and I link to another page, it passes a certain amount of juice (I'll use 90% as an example) of the linking page's juice, giving the page being linked to a .9 boost in it's own link juice.  However, does that mean the linking page's page's remaining juice is now less than 10?  While some of the questions would imply this to be the case, it seems counter intuitive as no one would ever want to link to any page outside of their own content for fear of losing page rank.
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I'm including \usepackage{hyperref} so that each instance of \ref (as well as each page number in the index and the table of contents) automatically links to that page.  When I'm viewing the document (in ) and I click a link, I jump to the linked page.  Is there any easy way to go "back" to where I was before I clicked the link?  (And is the answer any different when using Adobe Acrobat reader?)
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I want to know, is there a huge difference in terms of SEO between these URLs:  example.com/ontario/toronto/listings   or  example.com/listings.php?p=ontario&amp;c=toronto   Will one URL rank higher than the other? Is there a huge difference here?
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Often, when I cite the  or  pages, I'm mostly pointing out one particular paragraph (usually “Provide context for links”). So I'd like to write [please summarize the contents of your link](http://SITE/how-to-answer#link).  Please add anchors to the “How to Ask” and “How to Answer” pages.
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I am trying to use &lt;h1&gt; tags on my blog for the post title and came across one problem. Title is hyperlinked.  Case 1:  &lt;h1&gt; &lt;a href=""&gt; xyz &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h1&gt;   case 2:  &lt;a href=""&gt; &lt;h1&gt; xyz&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    Which one is better in terms of SEO?
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OK, here's the situation: A reasonably simple website with a primary navigation menu including drop-down list of sublevels on hover. Each navigation level may have 3 - 6 sublevels below it, none more important than the other. For example see this mockup:    My question is: What should happen if the user Clicks on one of the primary navigation options (such as 'News') instead of just hovering over and choosing a sublevel?  My instinct tells me that I should allow a click of this navigation option; it's expected user behavior to be able to click navigation options. If clicked then a landing page of some sort will be present listing all the sublevels (latest news, blog posts, case studies'). However there is no content to add to this landing page other than presenting a list of links, which is pretty useless. I could pad it out by adding iconography and descriptions of the sublevels, but that's just content for the sake of it; does 'Latest News' really need a description in order to understand what it is?  If I don't include a landing page then clicking this primary navigation will have to open something but if I open the 'Latest News' page that risks the user not knowing about the other sections of the site.  (The landing page will be useful for breadcrumb navigation too, so I don't really want to do away with it).  Is my thinking that a landing page showing the list of sublevels actually useful even though there is no actual content to display, or is there a better alternative to go with?
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Is there a way for a link to be copied with the selected text?  "Some selected text with this  somewhere in the paragraph"  To be copied as:  "Some selected text with this { link |  } somewhere in the paragraph"  If there is anything like that it would be great help.
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Let's have some fun shall we??  At the bottom of the content for about 1/3rd of my pages, but not in the footer, I create an internal link for each related IP address to the page on my site for that IP address. This was fine 6 months ago, but now that my database has grown so large, I discovered that it was not uncommon to create 700+ links within this section with one page having 2600. Ooopppsss!! ;-) Houston, we have a problem!  Now this is easy enough to fix. For right now, I put a limit 100 on the query. But this got me thinking and searching for a definitive answer. So far... no luck.  Please understand I do fully know the effects regarding SEO. Most of you know that already. I am not looking for a lesson- just an idea of a range.  Q: How many internal links per page is too many?  There are a lot of answers on the net culled from various nether regions and I have a number in mind (also culled), but I was thinking that there has to be an authoritative answer somewhere. Google says reasonable and MOZ's answer seemed to very arbitrary to me. Some so-called SEO experts say as little as 6 and as much as 200. Yeah. That is useful! One said there is no limit. I know there is a semi-flexible practical limit. I remember reading about this years ago, but cannot remember the mechanics behind it right now. I would have to think on this for a while.  Bonus Q: If given a choice of creating links from a random query (and yes I can do this) or first 100 or so (using limit), which would you prefer/advise and why? Again, I have an idea in mind (again, culled). Is there anything definitive in this regard as well?  My primary concerns are UX, download speed, and lastly, Giigle. (&lt;= please do not edit to change)
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I run several different web pages on different servers (with different IP addresses). These pages are linking to each other in order to boost number of backlinks pointing to my pages.   I would like to move all those projects to a single virtual host (with a single IP address). My question is, how Google handles links within different domain names but same IP address. Is there some penalization for it? Could this lead to lower PageRank?
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I have a website with couple of pages.  In the home page I have fair amount of content with required amount of keyword density. Other pages are fine and having enough amount of content whereas contact page is just a simple page with no content except a contact form.  When I search for my domain name in Google Search, on the third page I'm ranked 26, 27, 28, and the pages are:  mydomain/contact mydomain/someservice mydomain/someservice2   Whereas I am more interested to find my domain name alone in a Google search instead of inner pages; moreover I don't want to see that weird contact page appearing instead of my homepage.  If I use &lt;link rel="canonical" href="http://homepage.com/" /&gt; for all the rest pages will that help me?
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It is possible to click on this question title above ↑, which would cause the page to refresh.  I'm wondering why the question title is a link to itself and the same page?  Why isn't it just written as solid text?  SEO perhaps?
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As I pointed out in , the URL scheme for full-form links to answers has changed from:  https://site/questions/question-id/question-title/answer-id#answer-id   to:  https://site/questions/question-id/question-title#answer-id   Pretty much every link that redirects to an answer, including short-form links to answers (i.e. https://site/a/answer-id) and ?lastactivity links to questions, for example, now redirect to the latter form of URL, instead of the former one. (Interestingly, the responses tab in one's own user profile still consists of hard links to the old form.)  Why was this change made? It seems to have , as those are still looking for the old form of URL. Additionally, as per Tim Stone's comment, it also seems to have .  As a test for the above, I tried manually changing the URL to the old form, and it properly oneboxed in chat and properly changed the page and scrolled down.  It also briefly affected SmokeDetector (a community project that widely affects SE sites), until I filed an issue with them and had it fixed.  Was it done because search engines were showing multiple results, since it wasn't clear to them that they were looking at the same page since the URLs to answers were technically different?
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What will result in better Page Ranking in search results?   More page views &amp; less time spent per page    Less page views &amp; more time spent per page     Note: The website that is being made has over 10,000 pages.
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There has been a significant drop (90%) in traffic from Google to one of my well-established sites (6+ years) in the last week. Searches show that the top 3 wide keywords all dropped 4 spots. Searches for other keywords do not show ANY results in the first 10 to 25 pages of results, while previously one 1st or 2nd page at most.  Since there are , the question really is:  What steps are necessary to figure out what caused such a drop?  There have been no major changes during this period or the last month on the site and certainly not in the homepage which has dropped in rank. Over all the years of running this site and plenty of others, I have never experienced this. There are is duplicate content on my site and I have rigorously used canonical links for the last few years to ensure it is not misinterpreted as such.
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What happens to links to a question from another post when the question linked is migrated? Will they be broken? Or will they point to the migrated question?  This  about links to deleted questions say that links to deleted question remain broken. Is it the same case for migrated questions too?  What is the Etiquette on linking to SE questions, to avoid broken links?
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When one wants to refer to some part of a webpage with the "http://example.com/#foo" method, should one use  &lt;h1&gt;&lt;a name="foo"/&gt;Foo Title&lt;/h1&gt;   or  &lt;h1 id="foo"&gt;Foo Title&lt;/h1&gt;   They both work, but are they equal, or do they have semantic differences?
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I'm talking about links or buttons at the bottom of the page or screen simply linking to the top of the website.  Is there any data on that? Are they used more frequently on long pages? What about mobile?  I know that , but I don't know if people actually know this and I also don't know if it works on Android and WP7.