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Inbound links are very important as they increase the value which search engines place on the content at a particular website. If you find the information here useful and you have a site of your own, then perhaps you would consider supporting this site with a link (one that doesn’t include rel=\"nofollow\"<\/code> please!<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whilst deep-linking will generally work (and I do try to maintain URLs through any site changes), I cannot be certain that will always be the case whereas a link to the blog home page will always work. The (X)HTML code for this looks like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/\">Mark Wilson<\/a><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Of course, the text can be changed – “Mark Wilson” could be “markwilson.it”, “a useful technical site” or anything else that falls within the context of the content that I create.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thank you for supporting this site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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