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> A lot of sites seem terrified that users might (gasp!) leave their site to go elsewhere That's a Google-inflicted SEO trend. People are worried about "losing
by lazyjones 11y ago
> A lot of sites seem terrified that users might (gasp!) leave their site to go elsewhere
That's a Google-inflicted SEO trend. People are worried about "losing PR" to linked sites / being considered link farms rather than "leaf" sites with content. This kind of SEO is worse for the structure of the web and web page usability than most of the tricks used by FB et al.
- andybak 11y agoIs this still valid SEO advice or another one of those "it was sort of true once upon a time" things that gets passed around?
- lazyjones 11y ago> *Is this still valid SEO advice I don't know if it ever was - SEO "experts" will tell you all kinds of amazing things, usually not what Google recommends (but Google naturally doesn't give SEO advice, just suggestions for playing nice). But even if it was valid advice, a more useful page would probably win in the long run - see Wikipedia and consider what it would be like without external references in the articles.