Link Rot

The natural tendency for hyperlinks to break over time as pages get deleted, domains expire, or URLs change. Link rot quietly erodes your backlink profile unless you periodically audit and reclaim broken inbound links.

PreviousLink Reclamation NextLink Scheme

Related Terms

Landing Page

A focused web page built for a specific campaign goal — like capturing leads or driving sign-ups — where visitors arrive from ads, emails, or organic search. Effective landing pages pair a single call to action with persuasive, relevant copy.

Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA)

A natural language processing technique that maps the relationships between words and documents to uncover hidden semantic patterns. While Google doesn't use LSA directly, the concept underlies why topically comprehensive content ranks better.

Link Bait

Content deliberately designed to be so useful, surprising, or share-worthy that other sites link to it without being asked. Original research, interactive tools, and comprehensive guides are classic link bait formats that earn backlinks at scale.

Link Building

The process of earning or acquiring hyperlinks from other websites to your own pages. Since backlinks are one of Google's strongest ranking factors, link building is a core pillar of any SEO strategy — whether through content marketing, outreach, or platforms like KarmaLinks.

Link Equity

The SEO value (also called "link juice") that flows from one page to another through a hyperlink. Link equity depends on the linking page's authority, relevance, and the type of link (dofollow vs. nofollow).

Link Exchange

An arrangement where two or more websites agree to link to each other. Direct reciprocal exchanges (A links to B, B links to A) can look manipulative to Google; triangular or multi-party exchanges, where no two sites link directly to each other, are considered safer.

Put this into practice with KarmaLinks, an AI backlink exchange platform where verified websites trade do-follow backlinks through safe ABC-only triangular exchanges.