What are WLW, RSD, RSS Links, Shortlink, and should I keep them or hide them?

Users of the WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin   Many of you must have faced this question: What are these options and should I  hide  WLW, RSD, RSS Links, Shortlink or keep them in the site header.

Today, before we answer yes or no, let us find out what these links in the site’s header mean. Contents of the topic Toggle 1- Link  

“WINDOWS LIVE WRITER 

“WLW :    

2- Link  

“RSD” : 3- “RSS” links : 4- Shortlinks SHORTLINK : 1- Link  

“WINDOWS LIVE WRITER 

“WLW:     This is the only link that we may need. This link contains the wlwmanifest.xml file, which in turn contains all the resources necessary to create the WINDOWS LIVE WRITER program. If you use this program to publish your blog posts, you cannot do without this link in the site’s header. However, if you rely on live blogging from the site, there is no need to keep the link.

2- “RSD” link: RSD or “Real Simple Discovery” is a simple detection mechanism used by XML-RPC. If you do not use services such as Flickr on your site, then you do not need to keep this link.

3- “RSS” links: 

Frankly, I do not find it necessary to have RSS links in the page header for several reasons, including that these links are primarily of interest to the user, and the presence of these links in the site header makes them invisible except to search spiders or (curious users who view the source code on your site). Therefore, there is no need for this link and it can be hidden from the site header. 4- SHORTLINK: There is absolutely no need (in my opinion) to have short links in the site header, so removing them is, at best, just a useless text link, and at worst, it may be duplicate content (it is better to remove it).

In the end, to remove WLW, RSD, RSS Links, Shortlink from the site header, we follow the method shown in the following image: Remove META WLW RSS SHORTLINK from the header #RSSLinks #WLW #RemoveWLW #Shortlink #RSS #RSD