Overlinking in a webpage or other hyperlinked text is having too many hyperlinks (links). It is characterized by large proportions of the words in each sentence rendered as links, including links that have little information content, such as linking to specific years or dates; unnecessary linking of common words, for which the reader can be expected to understand the word's full meaning in context; linking to unrelated, obvious topics (e.g.
Overlinking in a webpage or other hyperlinked text is having too many hyperlinks (links). It is characterized by large proportions of the words in each sentence rendered as links, including links that have little information content, such as linking to specific years or dates; unnecessary linking of common words, for which the reader can be expected to understand the word's full meaning in context; linking to unrelated, obvious topics (e.g.
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