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link juice

link juice noun: the implicit recommendation given to a website (and noted by search engine crawlers) when it is linked to; the focus of search engine optimization.

Noun

link juice (uncountable)

  1. (Internet, slang) The implicit recommendation given to a website (and noted by search engine crawlers) when it is linked to; the focus of search engine optimization.
    • A brief aside about hoarding PageRank: many people have taken this to an extreme and built sites where they refused to link out to other quality websites, because they feared losing visitors and link juice. Ignore this idea!2012, Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Jessie Stricchiola, Rand Fishkin, chapter 4, in The Art of SEO, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 111

Questions about link juice

What does link juice mean?
Link juice means the implicit recommendation given to a website (and noted by search engine crawlers) when it is linked to; the focus of search engine optimization.
What part of speech is link juice?
Link juice is a noun.

Words near link juice in the dictionary

  1. link exchange
  2. link exchanges
  3. link farm
  4. link farms
  5. link in
  6. link juice
  7. link language
  8. link languages
  9. link motion
  10. link motions
  11. link out

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