Why is this important:
If you are on the main page and click on the logo or the “Home” menu item, the browser restarts, but nothing happens, because you remain where you were. This is called a "circular reference".
For your users, this link is of no use, but it terribly interferes with search bots indexing the site, because it follows all the links without thinking and can become fixated on one place, instead of continuing to crawl the site.
Correcting circular links is an important stage of SEO website optimization.
What is included in the service:
It’s too long to even describe. In short, in the right places in the code you need to set the necessary condition with all kinds of checks, and also add styles for active menu items that will no longer be links, so that the design does not move, and so on.
The complexity of fixing circular links depends on the site engine, template and technology used, which is why there are so few providers who offer this service.
Places with circular links
- Logo in the header
- Links in the header
- Side menu
- Drop-down menu items
- Drop-down sub-items in the menu
- Active page in breadcrumbs
- Links in the sidebar
- Links in the footer
- Logo in the basement
- Active page in pagination
