: Is it bad for SEO to have multipe identical links in a section? I have a venue listings website with restaurants and bars and have sections for "latest comments", "latest listings", "latest

@Eichhorn148

Mike is correct that there may be better ways to organize your links from the perspective of users. However, from a PageRank perspective, duplicate links are not an issue. Google only passes PageRank to the first of the duplicated links.

Vote Up Vote Down

@Annie201

From what I understand, google only looks at the first link from the duplicate links on a single page, but what you may want to do, instead of having a resulting layout like this:

Comment 1 from bar: ThisBar (at example.com)
blablablablabla

Comment 2 from bar: ThisBar (at example.com)
yaddayaddayaddayaddayaddayadda

Comment 3 from bar: ThisBar (at example.com)
bangbangbangbangbangbangbang


You are better to organize your comments in this fashion:

3 Comments from bar: ThisBar (at example.com)
Comment 1 by john on mm-dd-yyyy:

blablablablabla

Comment 2 by jack on mm-dd-yyyy:

yaddayaddayaddayaddayaddayadda

Comment 3 by Mandy on mm-dd-yyyy:

bangbangbangbangbangbangbang


My apologies for poor grammar but the point here is that I rearranged how the comments are displayed so that there is only one link to the bar instead of multiple duplicate links. This also prevents users from downloading extra bytes that were required to craft the additional links.

Vote Up Vote Down