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Internal Linking
- The Related Domains area of each domain page uses this internal linking idea to create a system that allows users to discover related sites within the AboutUs.org database. Ideally, each domain page will have somewhere between a few and no more than 30 related links.
- If you have a site that is related to a given topic, feel free to add some related links from other site pages to your page. Please don't over do it, however. If you're adding more than 30 such links or are putting up links on very popular and unrelated sites, then it will look like spam to us. In addition, linking from a high profile site is questionable.
- To link internally:
- While editing a wiki page, place double square brackets around the AboutUs page name and the description text you wish to become a link. Be sure to separate them with a vertical bar. This: [[Special:Recentchanges|recent changes]] will appear as recent changes.
Categories
- Instead of mass linking (internal or external), categories are a constructive way to gather and categorize sites that are related. You can help us build categories, but please keep in mind that the purpose of categories is to help users locate useful information and to link wiki pages to related sites. Categories are not designed to be an SEO tool and can be viewed as spam when overused. Hyper categorization makes information harder to locate, not easier. On the other hand, it is not a category if there are only 1 or 2 webpages linked, or if you are advertising your website.
- No external links, other than to the occasional wiki are supposed to be in categories. If you work on a making a category description good, it is very acceptable to add at the bottom, your WikiPage or PersonalPage link.
- For example:
- Category:Airport Parking
- Category:Internet Search
- Category:Service
- Category:Websearch
- Category:Search Services
Link Spam
- When a page is loaded with links to outside pages that have no correlation or links that still have html tags around them, we view this as link spam. These are subject to deletion.
Category Spam
- When someone creates a bunch of categories and adds their external links to the category. This is a bit of work to clean up and should be stopped as soon as seen. Try to always AssumeGoodFaith and request the person read this guide.
Misleading Naming
BorderPol
BiLinks
allow comfortable navigation and maintaining of internal and external Wiki-contributions. It should go without saying that a link to an external (wiki-) page should be linked back for fairness.
WikiLink
Somebody put the following entry under the BiLinks introducer "". Checking this site produced no backlink. So it demonstrates a counterexample: [www.caribbeantg.com]