Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Internal and external links. An is a type of hyperlink on a web page to another page or resource, such as an image or document, on the same website or domain. [1] [2] It is the opposite of an , a link that directs a user to content that is outside its domain. Hyperlinks are considered either "external" or "internal" depending on their target or ...
A Uniform Resource Identifier ( URI) is a unique sequence of characters that identifies an abstract or physical resource, [1] such as resources on a webpage, mail address, phone number, [2] books, real-world objects such as people and places, concepts. [3] URIs are used to identify anything described using the Resource Description Framework ...
H:WIKILINK. A wikilink (or internal link) is a link from one page to another page within the English Wikipedia, or, more generally, within the same Wikipedia (e.g. within the French Wikipedia), in other words: within the same domain, or, even more generally, within the same Wikimedia project (e.g. within Wiktionary ).
Likewise, when URLs are not "clean", if the site database is moved or restructured it has the potential to cause broken links, both internally and from external sites, the latter of which can lead to removal from search engine listings. The use of clean URLs presents a consistent location for resources to user-agents regardless of internal ...
A uniform resource locator (URL), colloquially known as an address on the Web, is a reference to a resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it. A URL is a specific type of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), [2] [3] although many people use the two terms interchangeably.
In the first case, it is better to employ URL mapping or URL redirection by returning a 301 Moved Permanently response, which can be configured in most server configuration files, or through URL rewriting; in the second case, a 410 Gone should be returned. Because these two options require special server configuration, most websites do not make ...
Anchor text. The anchor text, link label or link text is the visible, clickable text in an HTML hyperlink. The term "anchor" was used in older versions of the HTML specification [1] for what is currently referred to as the a element, or <a>. [2] The HTML specification does not have a specific term for anchor text, but refers to it as "text that ...
Web site owners who do not want search engines to deep link, or want them only to index specific pages can request so using the Robots Exclusion Standard (robots.txt file). People who favor deep linking often feel that content owners who do not provide a robots.txt file are implying by default that they do not object to deep linking either by ...