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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/26060585

You should use archive.org or archive.today links.

The best way to influence the Domain Authority metric is to improve your site’s overall SEO health, with a particular focus on the quality and quantity of external links pointing to your site.

You can use the Wayback machine addon to easily get archived links https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wayback-machine_new/.

And a bookmarklet for archive.today:

javascript:void(open('https://archive.today/?run=1&url='+encodeURIComponent(document.location)))

FYI, if you’re worried about archive.today going down and references being lost, you can manually leave in the original URL by adding https://archive.ph/o/ in front of any URL, after you archive it. IE: https://archive.ph/o/https://sh.itjust.works/post/26060585 will redirect to the archived page, if it exists.

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[–] LedgeDrop@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Not true.

The links just need to have a "no follow" attribute (which is something that Lemmy could add, if they haven't already).

These links do not influence the search engine rankings of the destination URL because Google does not transfer PageRank or anchor text across them. In fact, Google doesn’t even crawl nofollowed links.

edit: added relevant blob of text.

[–] andrew_s@piefed.social 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

All the links in this post already have that attribute, so I guess it's already added.

[–] LedgeDrop@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Fantastic! Thank you for looking into the source code and verifying it!

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