What is splitting of links?

[cheryl381]

Hi friends!

I read in an article that one should avoid splitting of links.
Links that come from outside shall have same url as internal links of the same landing page.
What does that mean?
I am quite confused.

[pinkvinny]

It means that links should point to to the same URI rather than some to the index page name and others to the directory root.It is requirement to have an index page.A split link is said to be splittable,and a link that is not split is called a non-split link or not splittable.

[royking]

As I know Splitting links are those links which does not redirect to the proper location which visitors are looking for and mostly it leads to some error pages.

[alexclark]

Link-splitting can happen when you have two different versions of the same webpage (like http://www.example.com and http://example.com), which is known as having duplicate content.

This has two downsides: first, you 'split' your links across these two domains (so half of your links point to the www domain, the other half go to the non-www domain). This dilutes the potential power of these links, since the number of inbound links you have affects your ranking in search engine results.

The other downside is that if search engines see two version of your website, they either can't figure out which page to rank in the results (so they rank neither) or they think you're spamming them.

[joyanu]

"If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they crave." Gail Caldwell, from her book "Let's Take The Long Way Around"

[jacobnenssi]

splitting link are those link who dose not direct the visitor to the proper way which they are looking for. it could happen when you have two different version of the same web page.

[jennymiller]

Link-splitting can happen when you have two different versions of the same webpage (like http://www.example.com and http://example.com), which is known as having duplicate content.

This has two downsides: first, you 'split' your links across these two domains (so half of your links point to the www domain, the other half go to the non-www domain). This dilutes the potential power of these links, since the number of inbound links you have affects your ranking in search engine results.

The other downside is that if search engines see two version of your website, they either can't figure out which page to rank in the results (so they rank neither) or they think you're spamming them.

So how do we overcome this problem?

[brainsmith]

It can also be said as a link canonical issue, here once you start redirecting one version of url to another version you problem will get solved.

[Walter Warner]

That will solve the problem, and that is perhaps the best solution. I do not think having a canonical tag in the header will solve the issues.