Does Skype Call affect on SEO

Marketing
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I have put skype link on home page but i heard that skype call make 404 error my project owner said me that give why you should not keep the link give me technical answer according to SEO and then Remove it.
Technical Answer will be appreciated

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Perhaps you’ll find this Google article helpful:

It explains that 404 errors will not affect the performance of your site in SERPs.

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Another approach, if you’re still concerned, is to mark the Skype link “nofollow”. Search engines will then ignore it and you have no need to worry about it.

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If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a “?” character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few.
here is the issue with skype it have also ? now what is the solution

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The same as the two suggestions I’ve already made.

The easiest way, I would think, would be to simply mark the link “nofollow”. Google (and other search engines) will ignore the link and they won’t report it as a 404 error. After all, there is no point in having a search engine crawl the Skype link. It doesn’t point to another page or resource; there is nothing there to interest the search engines.

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Reason behind this problem is very simple. When anybody create a link with href=“link” without http:// or https:// then the telling to any browser that the link was related to website. Then the Skype link will be translated in http://domain.tld/skype:yourname?call. And its very obviously that it is not a valid link.

To solve the problem you can use these point:-

  1. Use Nofollow link :- When we use this option there has a problem with it. When people use nofollow attribute for any link they want that search engine not visit on that link and also indirectly telling them that they also not trusted their own link that not good for SEO. We always use this option in very necessary condition.

  2. The second option is preferable and good for SEO purposes. you can use
    javascript to create the link. There’s a couple ways to do this, we can
    use the button provided to us from Skype, a local button image or we
    can use a CSS sprite.

# When using a CSS sprite we’ll implement this bit of JS:

<script type="text/javascript">     
     document.write('<a class=\"your css sprite class\" href=\"skype:yourname?call\" target=\"_blank\">');
     document.write('<\/a>');
</script>

# When using a local button we’ll implement this bit of JS:

<script type="text/javascript">
document.write('<a href=\"skype:yourname?call\">');
document.write('alt=\"Skype Me!\" width=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/domain.tld\/directory\/image.png\" height=\"50\" \/>');
document.write('<\/a>');
</script>

# And the last one when using the button from Skype we’ll implement this bit of JS:

<script type="text/javascript">
document.write('<a href=\"skype:yourname?call\">');
document.write('<img style=\"BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none\" ');
document.write('alt=\"Skype Me™!\" width=\"124\" src=\"http:\/\/download.skype.com\/share\/skypebuttons\/buttons\/call_blue_white_124x52.png\" height=\"52\" \/>');
document.write('<\/a>');
</script>
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Sorry, but that’s nonsense. nofollow doesn’t indicate that links are not trusted. It indicates that the site owner has chosen not to have search bots follow those links, for whatever reason. Perhaps they lead to log-in pages, ToS or temporary documents, which it makes no sense to have indexed.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96569?hl=en

[quote=“CATRINA123, post:8, topic:194301”]
The second option is preferable and good for SEO purposes. you can use javascript to create the link.
[/quote]Perhaps you could explain how this works, why it’s preferable and why it’s “good for SEO”. As far as I can see, the code there is still using a link with no protocol, href=\"skype:yourname?call\" so I’m unclear how this solution solves the problem.

And presumably there’s a reason why you would recommend this method, rather than getting the code direct from Skype?

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