Professional Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

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183 Professional Search Engine Optimization (SEO)



  1. Settings for the links to your website (details)


This window allows you to add very specific options to the link check. For example,
IBP's link manager can check if the link to your site contains the rel="nofollow"
attribute. If a link contains that attribute, search engines won't consider it and the
link won't help your search engine rankings.

You can also specify if IBP's link manager should search the website of your link
partners for back links and how many web pages IBP's link manager should search if
it cannot find a back link to your site. If the back link is not available on the web page
URL that you entered in the Edit Site panel, then IBP's link manager will try to find
out if the back link is on another page of the link partner's website.

A very useful feature is the user agent feature. That feature allows you to specify with
which user agent IBP's link manager will visit the websites of your link partners. For
example, IBP's link manager can use the user agent of Google's search engine spider
so that the other websites think that Google's spider is visiting them.

That means that the websites will return the same pages to IBP's link manager that
are also returned to Google's spider. That allows you to find out if a web page still has
the link to your site if a search engine spider visits the page. Some websites present
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