: SEO and links content For usability purposes, entire article thumbnail is wrapped to a link. <a href="/some_article"> <h2>Article title</h2> <div class="summary">Lorem

@Mendez628

Negative SEO effect?

Nobody knows, but this is what Matt Cutts has said: "if you can design and write your HTML code so that it’s well-formed and validates, it’s always a good habit to do so." So that should be your first priority.

Remember, more prominent links may get more link juice

Now there's a separate issue that you didn't ask about, but is related, which is whether "big links" count more than small links. There is a Google patent around this commonly referred to as the "reasonable surfer," and in essence, it suggests that the traditional PageRank distribution formula may be weighted by the visibility of a link, which could be anything from font size and color to placement horizontally or vertically. So in theory, all else equal, a link styled with H2 would get more link juice (assuming no CSS styles override native H2 meaning).

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@Sarah324

Does this approach have some negative
effect to SEO ?


I'd say it is neither positive nor negative. There's so much content in the hyperlink that whatever keywords are present are going to be too diluted to have any value. But doing this isn't bad for any reason, either.


Just a link to article in articles
list

Or h2, wrapped to link:


Unless they're headings there's no reason to wrap them in H2 tags. Don't use markup for what it isn't for. Do things the right way, not because you think it will make search engines happy. Not coincidentally the right way is usually what makes the search engines happy.

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