- Inbound link
An inbound link is a
hyperlink transiting domains. Links are inbound from the perspective of the link target, and conversely, outbound from the perspective of the originator. Inbound links were originally important (prior to the emergence of search engines) as a primary means of web navigation; today their significance lies insearch engine optimization (SEO).In addition to rankings by content, many search engines rank pages based on inbound links.
Google 's description of theirPageRank system, for instance, notes that "Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B." [ [http://www.google.com/intl/en/technology/ Google's overview of PageRank] ] Knowledge of this form of search engine rankings has fueled a portion of the SEO industry commonly termedlinkspam , where a company attempts to place as many inbound links as possible to their site regardless of the context of the originating site.Increasingly, inbound links are being weighed against
link popularity and originating context. This transition is reducing the notion of "one link, one vote" in SEO, a trend proponentswho hope will help curb linkspam as a whole.References
External links
* [http://www.online-utility.org/webmaster/backlink_host_ip_analyzer.jsp Online Inbound Link Analysis]
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