Search Engine Journal·3 min read·medium
Google's Mueller On First Link Priority & Link Obfuscation
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Matt G. Southern
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Google Search Advocate John Mueller advised against over-engineering website HTML to manipulate 'first-link priority' for SEO purposes. He suggested that such tactics are likely unnecessary and could lead to unintended technical issues.
John Mueller responded to a plan to hide homepage links from Google in hopes only one internal anchor text would count, known as "first-link priority."
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