Duplicating Outgoing Links

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#1

Hi!
I’ve been working on a development site, and now that we’re implementing some SEO practices, we’ve discovered that for every screen size we’ve designed for (desktop, tablet, mobile), the links are duplicated so one page may have 50 outgoing links.

Is there a way around this duplication without having to re-do all the work we’ve done building these pages?

Thanks,
Laurie

#2

Hello Laurie,

Thanks for writing in! Regretfully any links you added in the page will be displayed as is. If you have several links, there is no way to get around it. The best thing you can do is to lessen the links by recreating the sections that will adapt to different screen layout. With the release of Pro 3.0, we have included the new Grid element which will greatly help in creating complex layouts and this is also using new technologies such as the flexbox options for the columns and the CSS grid. You can check these features in our Youtube videos:

Thank you for your understanding.

#3

Sorry, what I’m getting at is that I have recreated the sections with different screen layouts and the links are still showing up duplicated when we audit. So, on the navigation, for example, it’s showing that there are 5 links to the About page, even though the nav appears once. It’s doing this because I’ve designed the navigation for the 5 different screen layouts.
They’re not necessarily “visible” on the page, but they’ll appear when the page is crawled.

So what I want to know is, is there a way to fix this since I’ve already designed for the various screen layouts? We don’t want our pages to have all of these excessive links.

Thanks,
Laurie

#4

Hello Laurie,

The “Hide During Breakpoints” option will only show or hide the certain section in specific device screens. This means that the hidden sections along with its contents will still load in the page. That is why you are now having the duplicate links in the page. We do not have any way to remove those duplicated links.

To get around this to have at least one link per section, is to recreate or have one section layout that is responsive enough to display in different screen sizes.

Hope this makes sense.

#5

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