Should I call it a Links or Resources page?

Much has changed over the years regarding links and how Google views them. Today, as far as I know, good quality links to other highly relevant websites are still a good thing.

In your opinion, what name should be used that will catch my reader’s attention and not turn them off? Resources.php? Links.php? Please explain why you feel this way. Would it be bad to have all thinks point to a router.php which records the link that was clicked prior to redirecting the user to their intended destination? Because I want to track which links are actually the most helpful to my members.

Also, does anyone know of a good template to use? I’ve looked on themeforest.net for a links page template and couldn’t find a single one.

Thank you!

For good reason. pages of links to external sites can have negative SEO impact for a site.

Much better to include the links in page content where the link is relevant to the content.

As for gathering data, some type of “click tracker” could be used.

Maybe something like

<a href="click-track.php?site=example.com">example.com</a>

where click-track.php tallies and then redirects.

I’m guessing that as long as I keep the links relative to my industry and don’t show hundreds of links, that SEO should be just fine. Agree?

You didn’t mention if you liked Links.php or Resources.php better.

Thanks!

As @Mittineague says, this kind of page has largely fallen out of favour, and with good reason. However, if you want to include it, I’d say the name should reflect its function. So if it’s purely a list of links, then “links.php” is appropriate. If there’s a genuine attempt to turn it into a useful resource by providing even minimal information about each, or separating them into some kind of categories, then “resources.php” would be appropriate.

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