WEB1040 - The hyperlink contains an invalid character

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A hyperlink should not contain carriage returns inside the href attribute.

Explanation

The hyperlink contains a carriage-return character. Search engines may not be able to correctly follow the hyperlink, which means the target page might not be analyzed.

Example

The following is an example of a correctly formatted hyperlink.

<a href="https://www.proseware.com/">Proseware Home</a>

See also

Concepts

Hyperlink guidelines for SEO

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