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Hi everyone, my name is Akshay & I'm from India. In a Full-Time Digital Marketing Career (Job Title: Digital Marketing Manager). I joined WA during

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Hello all,
I was having a discussion with our office team on various Digital Marketing stuff, and noticed that the terms- external links and outbound links are used intercha

Hi Akshay

Outbound links are one type of External link.

The term External Links can refer to either Outbound Links (links from your URL to another) or Inbound Links (links from another URL to yours). To make is even more confusing, Inbound Links are commonly called Backlinks...

For completeness, Internal Links are links from anywhere on your site to anywhere else on your site...
:-)
Richard

Those are Greaaaaate (in the words of Tony the Tiger....) selections, Trish.

Thanks!

Rudy

Outbound links are from your site to another URL that is not part of your domain.

External links are outbound links that are usually thought of as informational, like a link to Wikipedia.

Affiliate links are outbound links that have commercial intent, like a link to a product from a company that you have an affiliate agreement with. Examples would be Amazon Associates or AWin.

Frank 🎸

Internal links are mainly used to link your articles together on your website.

And external links are used to link to articles of other websites

I'd say they are pretty similar, except that outbound links, on the other hand, point to another website >>>from a specific page on your website.<<<< For example, if you have a blog post that links to another website for more information, that link would be outbound.

The term "outbound link" is more specific to links on your website and pointing to another website.

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External links vs outbound links, what's the main difference?

External links vs outbound links, what's the main difference?

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Search Engine Optimization

Hello all,
I was having a discussion with our office team on various Digital Marketing stuff, and noticed that the terms- external links and outbound links are used intercha

Hi Akshay

Outbound links are one type of External link.

The term External Links can refer to either Outbound Links (links from your URL to another) or Inbound Links (links from another URL to yours). To make is even more confusing, Inbound Links are commonly called Backlinks...

For completeness, Internal Links are links from anywhere on your site to anywhere else on your site...
:-)
Richard

Those are Greaaaaate (in the words of Tony the Tiger....) selections, Trish.

Thanks!

Rudy

Outbound links are from your site to another URL that is not part of your domain.

External links are outbound links that are usually thought of as informational, like a link to Wikipedia.

Affiliate links are outbound links that have commercial intent, like a link to a product from a company that you have an affiliate agreement with. Examples would be Amazon Associates or AWin.

Frank 🎸

Internal links are mainly used to link your articles together on your website.

And external links are used to link to articles of other websites

I'd say they are pretty similar, except that outbound links, on the other hand, point to another website >>>from a specific page on your website.<<<< For example, if you have a blog post that links to another website for more information, that link would be outbound.

The term "outbound link" is more specific to links on your website and pointing to another website.

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