Market Share » first link priority http://www.marketsharewebdesign.com/blog Custom Web Design, SEO & Advertising Fri, 11 May 2012 14:27:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 First Link Priority http://www.marketsharewebdesign.com/blog/first-link-priority.html http://www.marketsharewebdesign.com/blog/first-link-priority.html#comments Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:21:01 +0000 admin http://www.marketsharewebdesign.com/blog/?p=187 Wanted to share with you an interesting post about first link priority on a website.  We have so often used the logo as a place for a back link to our home page.  Come to find out this may not be the best practice for SEO. You can still do this, but with a little trick you can point Google to an actual first link that counts and contains your keyword.

Here is a link to the blog post in it’s entirety as found on Noble Samurai: First Link Priority

Here is the code that you will need to use to implement this strategy

First Link Priority

CSS Method

Using CSS you can have a simple anchor with desired text and replace the text with an image.

HTML Required

<a href="http://www.google.com">Your link text</a>

CSS Required

.logo{
	display:block;
	text-indent:-1000em;
	background: url(images/noble-samurai-logo.png) no-repeat 0 0;
	width:90px;
	height:90px;
}

Kudos to Noble Samurai and their software. If you haven't heard of them, please check them out. They have some really great SEO products.
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