[ligthouse] add "descriptive link text" reference #5813
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@rviscomi - if you approve, please feel free to "Squash and Merge" |
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| In general, the link text should clearly indicate to users what type of content they'll get if | ||
| they click the link. Using the exact title of the document, or a description of the page, is | ||
| usually good enough. Avoid using URLs as link descriptions. |
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s/link/anchor/ for consistency with the overview above?
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Good catch, I thought about this too, but opted to use both terms to signify that they are interchangeable, and improve our own SEO
| they click the link. Using the exact title of the document, or a description of the page, is | ||
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| [style]: https://developers.google.com/style/link-text |
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No, good catch, thanks
| {# wf_published_on: 2018-02-22 #} | ||
| {# wf_blink_components: N/A #} | ||
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| # Links Do Not Have Descriptive Text {: .page-title } |
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How much do you think these docs should go into the SEO benefits of [doing the thing the audit checks for]? Linking to relevant SEO docs is good too.
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I thought about that, but I haven't really seen anything else on it, other than "it helps search engines understand your content"
We could link to webmaster blog, to give it authority, but the content is pretty much duplicated
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If you have specific link and specific content to add, that'll help me see what you're thinking
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Here's one: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7451184#optimize (scroll down to "Write good link text" section, no closer anchor to jump to... grr)
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🎉 This has been pushed live to https://developers.google.com/web/ |
greetings @rviscomi ... got another one for ya
What's changed, or what was fixed?
Fixes: N/A
Target Live Date: 2018-02-28
gulp testlocally and all tests pass.type-somethinglabel.CC: @petele