Linking to it's own page

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I've seen the following on some websites.

www.SITE.com\Internal-Link-A

Then on page Internal-Link-A, I've found certain keywords on the page link to:

www.SITE.com\Internal-Link-A

E.g. it's a page that links to itself.

Is that useless, or does it hold any value????

Rich
#search engine optimization #linking #page
  • Thought? Valuable or waste?
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    • Hey,

      I think no value.

      Reasons:

      Linking to categories or home page may increase time on site and overall interlinking SERPs. But linking to same page serves no purpose.

      Thanks
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    If you use jump-links then Yes, it can help with SEO, because it can get you an extra hyperlink at the front of the ranked SERP description.

    A jump-link is the same page URL + Name tag to identify where the link should jump to on the same page.

    Example, If I had a link at the top of my page I could let traffic click the link to jump down the page to the product description like this:

    Link code at the top of the web page:
    Code:
    <a href="http://domain.com/product-xyz#description">Click here for product description</a>
    You have to have the pound symbol () between the page URL & the jump keyword/ID, in this example #description.



    Code that traffic won't see goes directly above the HTML that creates my product description.
    Code:
    <a name="description">
    Here's a real jump-link (below) that Warrior Forum creates, though they open all jump-links in a new window/tab, it's still a jump link.

    Click here to jump right back to this comment.
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  • Hey Yukon, thanks for the response.

    You say:

    If you use jump-links then Yes, it can help with SEO, because it can get you an extra hyperlink at the front of the ranked SERP description.

    Would that be beneficial more for click through rates rate than SEO?
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