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The company I work for recently switched over to Yext to manage the local listings for our 275+ locations. Our listings have now been live with Yext for over 3 weeks and I'm wondering A. when should I expect to see new inbound links from these yext listings? and B. In what ways can I expedite the process?

I've already re-crawled our site, but is there anything else I can do? This is my first experience with Yext so any thoughts or suggests about how to get the most out of the product would also be appreciated.

Thanks,

Yep, we'll be updating sitemaps accordingly to hopefully help bots figure this thing out.

I guess the core of my question is how link juice/page rank is handled for these types of links. Part of the reason we are trying to build this is to move these links out of the footer and into the page body, so I want to make sure that these links are crawlable (which it sounds like they are) and that they'll still be passing the same value on to the various regional pages the map links to.

We are in the process of using SVG to create an interactive map that will help site visitors browse product listings by region. (I work for a real estate company)

For example, if a visitor were to click on the Florida portion of this US map, they would be taken to our Florida product page via a link setup that looks like:

<a  xlink:href="/luxury-homes/Florida">... </a>

Can anyone help me get a better understanding of how these xlinks are handled for SEO purposes? Are they indexed like regular links by search engines? do they pass link juice?

Thanks,