What Is Deep Link?

[Guest Mallory]

A deep link is a hypertext link to a page on a Web site other than its home page. The "deep" refers to the depth of the page in a site's hierarchical structure of pages. Any page below the top page in the hierarchy (the home page) can thus be considered deep. The term has been given prominence in the legal suit of the Ticketmaster Corporation against Microsoft. A Microsoft-owned site (one of its Sidewalk sites) linked to a page of useful information within the Ticketmaster site, avoiding the Ticketmaster home page. Ticketmaster sued Microsoft for linking without permission, claiming that they were thus being deprived of advertising viewers for the ads on their home page. In fact, their content was appearing within a Microsoft page containing their advertising.

[Daniel]

Interesting fact to read. Well now deep linking is very used as we need relevant content and link directly to the article, video , blog post and not using the old fashioned way: Check the blog posts from homepage.com structure

[Guest topranker]

You are Right that "deep link is a hypertext link to a page on a Web site other than its home page."

[Guest adamparker]

Deep linking is a sub web page of the site that creates the structure of the webpage and by using high-quality content deep inbound links is usually used in inbound links to get exposures in the search results as well as getting inbound links.

[Guest alanrogers]

Deeply linking is a tool used by sites to point a guest immediately to a web page within the website instead of the squeeze web page or home web page of the site. This allows in improving the inbound links for a particular web page.

[addyj672]

Deep linking is the process of target some of keywords for inner website pages. In this usually we optimize the internal pages of website to get good repsone from search engine against some of the pages. Deep linking has a good impact on website that is search engine index the whole website.

[nikolejhonson1982]

Deep linking means to place the site link in the very inner level of a site ex :- a.com/a/ab/abc/abcd/a.html so, for the search engines the page a.html is considered as a deep link page. so to placing a link at the deepest level of the site is called as a deep linking.

[Guest aksharadeoll]

Hi,

One of the most common mistakes that websites make is to optimize only the home page, and increase the Page Rank of just the home page. The inner pages are often neglected.If you have realized the error of your ways and are thinking up ways to increase the PageRank of your inner pages, then let me tell you, nothing works like deep linking! When you engage in deep linking, not only do you receive link juice from the external sites that link to you, but the very act can positively affect the internal link juice flow. The more the number of incoming links to your inner page the higher the rate of link juice transfer from your homepage, what does that result in? Higher PageRank for your inner pages, that’s what!

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[cartocare]

Deep Linking is making a hyperlink that points to a specific page or image on a website, instead of that website's main or homepage.