Does domain name masking negatively effect SEO?
30th December 2011
My answer to Does domain name masking negatively effect SEO? on Quora
Yes, because you’ve made it impossible for people to share links to sub-pages on your site—which means you won’t get incoming links to those pages, a crucial ranking metric.
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