By now, you've heard of the dark web. If you're not an avid Internet user, you may still have some question about what the dark web is and how it related to the World Wide Web. The truth is, there are a lot of similarities between the two, but they also have many differences as well. In this article, we'll cover what the dark web is and why it's such a mystery to many people. Hopefully, by the time you're done reading, you'll know more about these mysterious links!
So what exactly is the dark web? It is basically a section of the World Wide Web that is reserved for illegal activity and malicious websites. The scary part is, while there are many "good" websites out there that have nice content, they can still be linked back to the darker corners of the web. This can have serious consequences for the "good" websites as well, since they get tainted overtime.
In order to understand how dangerous links can be, you need to think about how search engines work. When you type in a word or phrase into a search engine, there's a list of websites that come up in order to provide you with results. Every result is a link to another page on the Internet.
Search engines try to provide users with the most relevant results. So when someone searches for something, the search engine uses certain algorithms to locate websites that meet a given set of requirements. For example, the keyword "weight loss" will bring up websites that claim to sell you a weight loss product, but there's a good chance that none of them are legitimate. So the search engine ranks these websites according to the relevance they offer. The relevance they refer to is the amount of time that a visitor has spent viewing their website. This means that some websites will be ranked higher than others simply because visitors spend more time at them.
The links between these websites and your website can be found in the "links" section of their pages. These "links" are links that other web spiders (a part of the Google algorithm) take and identify as being related to your site. Once this happens, the search engine assigns them a rating based on the links. A negative rating is what you get when someone clicks on a "nofollow" link, or when you have links from websites that point to your site that are considered "not relevant".
You can see why it's so important to avoid the use of dark web links. If a person comes to your website from a "nofollow" link, the spider bots will find you through the "back link". This means that they're going to find you first even though you don't link to them! If "nofollow" link lands on your website, this means that they've actually been sent to your site by someone who came from a different "nofollow" link, and not directly from you.
These days you need to make sure that your links are trustworthy. There's a way to check to see if a page has been linked to anywhere else: go to the About Us section of each web page. Usually there's a link for "Contact Us" or something like that somewhere on the page. Even though it's not an actual link, this counts as a link back to you! Most major web directories don't allow links from URLs that begin with dot-com, as they think people will think the directory is some kind of web scam.
If you do find links to your site that are from the dark web, then there's not much you can do about them. They will always point to a visible page on your site. There's really nothing you can do about those. However, you can block them from showing up altogether by using JavaScript or HTML editing. Otherwise, you'll be safe in the knowledge that any suspicious-looking links are going to have originated from a real web page.