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  • Resolved Duncan
    Rank Math free

    I am unsure whether this is from rankmath or not but can you advise about this link in my header: <link rel=”profile” href=”https://gmpg.org/xfn/11″&gt; what it is, what it does and if it is better to delete or keep for SEO purposes as it is an external link on a page?

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  • Hello,

    Thank you for getting in touch with us.

    That is not added by Rank Math. It is added by WordPress and you can read more about what it does here:
    https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/173117/why-is-there-a-link-tag-with-rel-profile-pointing-to-gmpg-org/277995

    Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

    Duncan
    Rank Math free

    Hiya thank you for this – is it better to remove do you know please? I know not necessarily rank math related but is in the header? Thanks again

    Michael Davis
    Rank Math pro

    Hello,

    Quoting from https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.4.4.3

    The profile attribute of the HEAD specifies the location of a meta data profile. The value of the profile attribute is a URI. User agents may use this URI in two ways: As a globally unique name. User agents may be able to recognize the name (without actually retrieving the profile) and perform some activity based on known conventions for that profile. For instance, search engines could provide an interface for searching through catalogs of HTML documents, where these documents all use the same profile for representing catalog entries. As a link. User agents may dereference the URI and perform some activity based on the actual definitions within the profile (e.g., authorize the usage of the profile within the current HTML document). This specification does not define formats for profiles

    If you want to remove this, here is an article you can look into: https://orbitingweb.com/blog/remove-unnecessary-tags-wp-head/

    Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

    Duncan
    Rank Math free

    Hi Michael, thank you for your advice and help. Thanks again

    Sajid Khan
    Rank Math business

    Hello,

    Glad that helped.

    If you don’t mind me asking, could you please leave us a review (if you haven’t already) on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post about your overall experience with Rank Math? We appreciate your time and patience.

    If you do have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.

    Thank you.

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