Sitewide links on blogs

[rthgreen]

There are some blogs where the links on the front page, like the blogroll, are site wide links. If a blog relevant to your niche links to your site on his/her blog that runs throughout their site like that, will that be harmful in any way? I would think that's a good thing but I've read that sitewide links aren't very desirable. Is that true?

[FHM]

It can't be harmful in any way to have a related blog link to your site, sitewide or not.
There is some debate about which should be preferred, given the choice between an in-text link or sitewide links. I have not yet read any conclusive evidence on this debate.

[HLwebhosting]

I think one of the primary concerns is why sell so much ad space at once, when you can sort of leverage that virtual real estate around a bit to land better earnings.

I suppose whoever you are linking to will enjoy the fact that they are backlinked throughout your entire web site, however.

[Hafsoh]

A link from related site wont hurt you either site wide or anywhere.

[zeruel]

Sitewide links could be a suspect for paid links... Let's say when you linked to a relevant site for a sitewide link, and that blog for example has 2,000 pages... Getting hundreds or thousands of links from a single domain wouldn't be a good thing... So whether it is related or a high PR site, still, it could drop your rankings...

just my 2 pesos...

[mit]

A relevant link which can be useful to your visitors can never be harmful in anyway.

[zeruel]

Originally Posted by mit

A relevant link which can be useful to your visitors can never be harmful in anyway.

Just like what I have said IMO, regarding "sitewide links" it won't do you any good... whether it is related or a high pr site...

Let me elaborate things...

You have a sitewide link on a blog with let's say 2,000-3,000 inbound links coming on your site for that single domain...

It would give you a good traffic for sure... but with regards to SE's... They won't give you any SE love... And would definitely drop your rankings...

[Locomotive]

I believe that it is useful for SEO. But it might be temporary profit. So It might be time wasting.

[rthgreen]

Originally Posted by zeruel

Sitewide links could be a suspect for paid links... Let's say when you linked to a relevant site for a sitewide link, and that blog for example has 2,000 pages... Getting hundreds or thousands of links from a single domain wouldn't be a good thing... So whether it is related or a high PR site, still, it could drop your rankings...

just my 2 pesos...

That's my fear about sitewide links. I was hoping it wouldn't be too bad if it's on a relevant site. I don't want google to think they're paid links either. My site's links are on blogs through one-way or reciprocal only. Perhaps I should check blogs that don't have their sidebars shown on every page before I ask for a link. Thanks for all the help.

[coolguy27]

Site-wide Text-Link-Ads can seriously damage your website ranking in Google...

Read it here http://www.directtraffic.org/links/B...t-Link-Ads.htm

Sitewide linking can be manipulated easily...
Try reading the evil of sitewide links..
http://forums.seochat.com/google-opt...est-46712.html

[ezhel]

it will not harm your blog as long as it is related.

[CaffinePhil]

Interesting debate, it seems half of the people think it will still benefit you and others disagree. Is there anyway to stop link on your blog from being sitewide, or to even control which links appear on which page, and still use a sidebar?

[zeruel]

Originally Posted by ezhel

it will not harm your blog as long as it is related.

Have you tried to read these links?

http://www.directtraffic.org/links/B...t-Link-Ads.htm
http://forums.seochat.com/google-opt...est-46712.html

[rthgreen]

But the thing is, I'm not buying these sitewide links though. They are merely links on blogrolls. Are they still considered text link ads? They're just links either by reciprocal or one-way, no purchasing involved whatsoever. It's the fact that some of these sidebars on some blogs where the links/blogrolls are located appear in every page within the blog which is what I'm concerned about. I apologize if I'm misinformed and that it's still harmful no matter the method. It would just be kind of be a bummer to get penalized for being naturally linked to blogs with sitewide sidebar links.

[snowbird]

Originally Posted by ezhel

it will not harm your blog as long as it is related.

Do a backlink check for sites ranking in the top ten for: search engine optimization (pages in Google's index over 31,000,000)

I can see they have links from all kinds of unrelated sites. Here's an example of some backlinks pointing to some SEO sites in Google's top ten:

PVC patio furniture site
cow horns/bull horns/steer horns site
home inspection site
fishing lures site

These unrelated links sure are not hurting these seo companies! The funny thing is that all these backlinks have something in common. They are on pages with PR, imagine that.

Does Google really want to stop paid links? Does a related backlink actually matter? At the present time, I think the answer to both these questions is no.

[CaffinePhil]

I guess its time to test your own strategies and go with what you feel. I think I'll still go for sitewide links as I think the possible benefits will out play the penalties.

[CaffinePhil]

I've jsut realised that blog rolls can have different settings. One one of my blogs it only appears on the home page and on another it appears on every page.

[temyong]

Well, for me site wide is not a proper way of building link it is a waste of time doing this.

[aira]

I think that the best approach is to target specific web pages of a site that is relevant to yours than getting site wide links with random topics so it'll look more natural to SEs.

[CaffinePhil]

So is it better to have a link or 2 from a dofollow blog comment with PR 0 that it is to have a sitewide link on the whole of that blog?