different means of linking
i came across this in an email from link building 101 and thought id share it, forgive me if this has already been shared else where but it is handy to know.
There are 4 different types of links:
URL Link - This is simply a website url that is a link.
Text Links (aka static links) - This is the most common type of link (when you click on a word or phrase and it is a link)
Image Links - An image link is simply an image that you click on to navigate to another webpage.
Dynamic Links - These types of links are in another programming language called Javascript and while they also take you from one webpage to another, they have 'extra codes' to perform special functions.
(these types of links can appear in many different forms)
It is important to be able to recognize these types of links, even if you are not familiar with web design and programming. You don't have to memorize the codes, just learn to identify each type of link.
Links provide navigation for human visitors and for 'spiders' (aka: crawlers, robots, bots). Simply put, a spider is a computer program that goes to websites and gathers information. Search engines use spiders to visit and 'index' your website. This means that they gather information about your site in order to líst it in their search results.
When the search engine spiders index your website, they follow the links to get from one webpage to another. It's important to know that search engines cannot follow 'dynamic links' and do not follow html links that have a special code in them that says 'no follow'.
The place where 'no follow' is commonly found is in the "meta tags" section of the website. Simply put, meta tags are information that is for the spiders only and is not seen by human visitors. You can see the code for any website in your browser by choosing 'view source'. (From Internet Explorer, choose Page > View Source. From Firefox choose View > Page Source)
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