How Cyclic Links Affect SEO

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The "looping" of links in itself is not a factor influencing the site's evaluation and ranking in search results. But a large number of cyclic links complicates the indexing of the site by the robot - it can go through the same page several times, which will seriously slow down the crawling of the entire site.

In addition, a large number of cyclic links with spam anchors containing key queries can be perceived by search engines as overspam, which will lead to a decrease in positions.

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How to find circular references
The first way to detect circular links is manual. Hover your cursor over potentially clickable elements of the page (pictures, links, buttons), and if the URL in the lower left corner of the browser matches the malaysia phone number material URL in the address bar, then you have a circular link.

What are circular links on a website and should they be removed?
Example of manual determination of link cycle

Despite the labor intensity, the manual method is very reliable. The fact is that there are no services that would identify 100% of cyclic links. For example, services often do not identify links to the current page from the menu, but only image links or regular text hyperlinks.

The second method of detection is parsing links. But it is important to choose the right service. For example, Google Search Console , although it collects internal links, considers cyclic ones as duplicates, and they are not included in the report. Yandex Webmaster does not have any information on internal links at all - only on broken ones.

A simple and free service is Bulkdachecker . Enter the URL of the page you want to check and get a list of internal and outgoing external links. URL matches in the list with the original URL are the cyclic links you are looking for.