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Engadget always has a source link at the bottom of the article. They don’t link to anything but themselves in the article text for SEO reasons. Also note that t
by ugh 15y ago
Engadget always has a source link at the bottom of the article. They don’t link to anything but themselves in the article text for SEO reasons. Also note that the word “Source” at the bottom of the article is not text but an image – also for SEO reasons. (I don’t, however, know what that’s supposed to help.)
This is a truly disgusting practice. The good thing about it is that once you know what’s going on, it’s relatively unproblematic. Whenever someone directs me to Engadget I know where I have to click. (In a funny twist, once you know where it is, finding the source is actually easier than when it is hiding in the article text.)
- paraschopra 15y agoI will tell you how that practice might help for SEO purpose. A page has a limited link juice which gets distributed more or less equally to all links on the page. So if the article links to external page, some of that link juice flows to it. Why not rather limit it to your own internal pages?
- damncabbage 15y agoIf that's the case, why not just use rel="nofollow"?
- greyman 15y ago@paraschopra: The practice in question was using image for the word "SOURCE".
- srik1234 15y agoThis is absolutely a ridiculous practice. I cant recall any other tech blog who follows this. Even big time news publications like Nytimes etc, wont do this. I unsubscribed to their RSS feed, just for this one particular reason alone.