Dummy links in posts
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Hi,
Dummy links in posts. We use 100's of sample/example lnks as below
http://<domain name></domain name>
http:/some site name as example which is not available/sample.html
many more
is there any tag we can use to show its a sample and not a link and while we scan pages to find broken links they are skipped and not reported as 404 etc?
Thanks
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Hi there,
As with what Kevin mentioned, I'm not sure why would want to include dummy links in your posts. The only plausible reason I can think of is that your website is teaching HTML or you are creating dummy design pages.
If you would like to ensure your posts are SEO optimised, you may want to include a rel="nofollow" tag in these dummy links, while linking them to actual websites that of irrelevance (e.g. linking to Google or an internal link). Adding this tag will tell search engines not to follow this link, which thereby won't affect your pagerank. This should help you get started if you have not used the tag before: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96569?hl=en
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As the links show
These are dummy in an article we need to use such names and ip's to explain a product or a scenario to explain with examples as such URL's
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I guess the first question I have is why are you using dummy links (this may help w/implementing a best practice to avoid these issues)?
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