Question about internal linking
- Thread starter Alf85
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Very simply, internal linking occurs when a site links to otherhttp://gmb.co.com whereas external linking occurs when a site links to URLs on a different site. Put another way, internal links are when you link to your own pages, while external links point to pages on other domains.
- Oct 28, 2020
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I've heard this, too but I'm not sure how important it is. We should wait for the confirmation of a pro
Also, unless this has a BIG impact on SEO I will never do it because it's so silly... I think it might even annoy people...
roydan
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Yeah, it's like browsing on Etsy or working on Canva and after 5 minutes you end up having 20 open tabs, all showing their root home page.I've heard this, too but I'm not sure how important it is. We should wait for the confirmation of a pro
Also, unless this has a BIG impact on SEO I will never do it because it's so silly... I think it might even annoy people...
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I always prefer to open every link in another tab. (target="blank").
This is because I want users to stay on my site as long as possible. If while reading my article a user clicks on any link and it opens in a same tab, then he is navigated away from that article midway. This is not good. But if that link is opened in a new tab and user stays on the same tab then he has an option to read the current article completely as well as switch to the newly opened article in another tab if he wants.
One more reason is that it should increase the stay time of the user on my site. (Even if he closes the current tab, many times the another tab is left open and user will see my site again. Sounds silly? But it is true.
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Alf85
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Of course, that's what I mean. So you also think it's okay to use both internal and external links that open in another tab.I always prefer to open every link in another tab. (target="blank").
This is because I want users to stay on my site as long as possible. If while reading my article a user clicks on any link and it opens in a same tab, then he is navigated away from that article midway. This is not good. But if that link is opened in a new tab and user stays on the same tab then he has an option to read the current article completely as well as switch to the newly opened article in another tab if he wants.
One more reason is that it should increase the stay time of the user on my site. (Even if he closes the current tab, many times the another tab is left open and user will see my site again. Sounds silly? But it is true.
- Apr 22, 2022
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It is ok of course.
It is up to you to decide too.
But as I said, I always keep it a new tab for both internal as well as external links.
- Aug 9, 2017
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I prefer internal links to open in the same tab, external links in a new tab. If I want to open an internal link in a new tab I'll just ctrl click. Sure, having a target="_blank" attribute on internal links will increase dwell time, but it'll also piss off people like me
But from what I can see, the target attribute of an internal link is not a signal Google looks at itself.
But from what I can see, the target attribute of an internal link is not a signal Google looks at itself.
- Oct 29, 2021
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Make a combination of both.
espacefree
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my thoughts exactly, when I changed the internal links to target="blank" on one of my sites time on page increased site-wide. definitely has an impact in my experienceI always prefer to open every link in another tab. (target="blank").
This is because I want users to stay on my site as long as possible. If while reading my article a user clicks on any link and it opens in a same tab, then he is navigated away from that article midway. This is not good. But if that link is opened in a new tab and user stays on the same tab then he has an option to read the current article completely as well as switch to the newly opened article in another tab if he wants.
One more reason is that it should increase the stay time of the user on my site. (Even if he closes the current tab, many times the another tab is left open and user will see my site again. Sounds silly? But it is true.
- Jan 17, 2015
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There was a very old SEO trick, that when people access your site if they clicked in any link it wil open in a new tab, hence if the click was done in the very first seconds, the probabilities of bounce back were highly reduced just because of this (specially on phone devices, where most people tend to leave hundreds if not thousands of tabs open). For me, this is the only worthy reasoning behind setting blank targets to internal links. From an UI standpoint, it's kind of awkward to keep opening tabs and more tabs. You will benefit from new users, but hinder old users. If you are capable, you could set a cookie to differentiate between old and new users, and manipulate this on the fly.