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Rule page.content.authoritative-links-missing

Cite at least one authoritative outbound link

page.content.authoritative-links-missing is a check in Crawlmind's site audit that grades low-impact issues of this kind. This page explains why the rule matters and the exact fix.

Impact: lowEffort: low

Why it matters

Pages with zero outbound links to high-authority domains read as either thin or isolated to Google's E-E-A-T raters and AI assistants. Citing one or two authoritative sources (the original spec, the academic source, the canonical doc) demonstrates you're grounded in real material: and AI engines tend to surface pages that themselves cite well.

The fix

Add one or two `<a>` links per content section pointing at the canonical source for the claim you're making.

High-trust domains by topic:

- **SEO / search**: `developers.google.com/search`, `searchengineland.com`
- **Web standards**: `developer.mozilla.org`, `w3.org`, `whatwg.org`
- **Schema / structured data**: `schema.org`, `validator.schema.org`
- **AI bots**: `platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot`, `darkvisitors.com`
- **Accessibility**: `w3.org/WAI`, `webaim.org`
- **Performance**: `web.dev`

Open links to external sites with `target="_blank" rel="noopener"` for security; no `nofollow` needed (you're vouching for the source).

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