What is a Dangling Link, and is it Bad for SEO?

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Dangling Links are Links which are pointed to non-indexable Webpages, Links that are "nofollowed", or Links linking to Webpages which are themselves considered Dangling. A Webpage can be non-indexable if either the robots.txt file excludes this Webpage, or if the META robots directive indicates "noindex". A "nofollow" Link is considered dangling because the Link Flow® is not diverted to other Links on that Webpage. A Webpage is considered Dangling when it doesn't have any "Followable" Links on it. The SEO Engine™ detects these Dangling Links and warns the customer about them. For each Link, the customer can see if it was pointed to a non-indexable Webpage, or a Dangling Webpage when SEOENGBot™ visited it. In addition, information about Dangling Links can be seen on both the Webpage and Website levels.

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Dangling Links are Links which are pointed to non-index able webpage, Links that are "nofollow" tag. Dangling links are simply links that point to any page with no outgoing links.
 
Hi,
Dangling links are simply links that point to any page with no outgoing links.
Links which are pointed to non-indexable webpages, Links with"nofollow" attribute, or links linking to webpages which are themselves considered dangling.
 
Re: What is Dangling link

A link to a page with no links to any other pages is called a dangling link. A dangling link usually loses visitors as the page they go to when clicking the link has no other place to go to. Visitors should always have some escape from a page other than the back button. A navigation or menu bar on each page is the simplest way to solve this problem. The page behind a dangling link is also referred to as an Orphan Page.
 
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