deep link

See also: Deeplink, Deep-Link, and Deep Link

English

Noun

Examples
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deep_link

deep link (plural deep links)

1. (Internet) A type of hyperlink directly pointing to content on a website, rather than its home page.
   • 2004, Munindar P. Singh, editor, The Practical Handbook of Internet Computing, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 10:

     Therefore, it depends on the concrete circumstances whether deep links are legal or not. Noncommercial sites are probably more often allowed to deep link to other sites than commercial sites.

Antonyms

• surface link

Translations

a type of hyperlink linking to a website page which is not the home page

French: lien profond (fr) m German: Deeplink m Hungarian: mélylink

Verb

deep link (third-person singular simple present deep links, present participle deep linking, simple past and past participle deep linked)

1. To directly link to content on a website.
   • 2004, Munindar P. Singh, editor, The Practical Handbook of Internet Computing, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 10:

     Noncommercial sites are probably more often allowed to deep link to other sites than commercial sites.

Further reading

• deep linking on Wikipedia.Wikipedia