sidebar links vs. onpage links

[ulcseminary]

If someone has a blog or site and gives me a link on the sidebar or footer, which would then go through the whole site, is the one on the front page (the one with the assumed higher rank) worth as much as one put in an unchanging paragraph or something on the body of the page? I thought I read that someone said links in footers and such aren't worth as much.

I was wondering because blog posts start on page, but are then moved off onto a PR0 or PR n/a page.

Does that make sense?

[paulgl]

Side links with good anchor text are okay.

Footer links lose a bit, but a link is still a link.

"Google" has said that a link, higher up, contextual,
is worth more. How much more? Well, IMHO, worth
is not measurable here. The value comes from a link
that signals your page is getting some authority and
has relevance.

If people knew this, they would stop profile building,
blog commenting, and start concentrating on links that
mean something.

FYI: I sell a ton of links. Each time, they insist it be on
one page, in an article, high up, and they even give me
the sentence to add with anchor text.

If you want a link for traffic, and not link juice, that's another
story. Anywhere prominently on the page is probably okay.

Paul

[RayW]

Originally Posted by paulgl

FYI: I sell a ton of links.

For how much? Where can I buy them?

[sandrasims]

Paul, great advice!

I'll attest that sidebar links are counted as incoming links. I put links to my own sites in the sidebar of my other sites. The links are showing in the Yahoo site explorer.

[ak1lz]

This is rather older info but google doesn't stray off of its core concepts that often.

It appears that Google and the other engines are doing more to recognize location on the page as an element of link consideration. Thus, employing links to pages in the Wikipedia-style (in the body content of a piece) rather than in permanent navigation may potentially provide some benefit.

[nospamming]

just see a cache version of that blog. and you willl come to know which link is cached first of all. then get it

[massivemarketing]

Blogroll links are quite poor even though they are on every internal page. I rented a few of them and the results were negligible. Home page, high pr, in contextual links however, are the best links you can get.

[ulcseminary]

Originally Posted by massivemarketing

Blogroll links are quite poor even though they are on every internal page. I rented a few of them and the results were negligible. Home page, high pr, in contextual links however, are the best links you can get.

So when you say the result were negligible, do you mean that you didn't get any ranking changes?

How can you tell how much the various links are ultimately worth? Is it just by how much your rankings change?

When I look at my google tools, it'll say something like 'blogspot' 6,500 links or something and 'wordpress' 3,123 and then it's mention a forum that I have a signature link in where I've posted as being '1,023' links.

And then it'll show wiki as having 10 links, but I know for sure that two of them are on a page that's PR5.

How do I know what's worth what? And, short of scanning every link for PR, is there a shortcut for determining which links are on the higher ranking pages? There must be some sort of program that shows the links in order of PR. Right?

[massivemarketing]

Originally Posted by ulcseminary

So when you say the result were negligible, do you mean that you didn't get any ranking changes?

How can you tell how much the various links are ultimately worth? Is it just by how much your rankings change?

When I look at my google tools, it'll say something like 'blogspot' 6,500 links or something and 'wordpress' 3,123 and then it's mention a forum that I have a signature link in where I've posted as being '1,023' links.

And then it'll show wiki as having 10 links, but I know for sure that two of them are on a page that's PR5.

How do I know what's worth what? And, short of scanning every link for PR, is there a shortcut for determining which links are on the higher ranking pages? There must be some sort of program that shows the links in order of PR. Right?

Yes exactly, I judge links by serp movements, nothing more, nothing less. You track how effective different links are by tracking different keywords. Get rank tracker or rank checker for Firefox to track rankings.

I'm not quite sure what you mean in the last paragraph. If your looking to track your links in order of page rank, get seo spy glass. You'll be able to see how much page rank a page with your link is worth.

Aside from PR and whether or not a link is editorial, another important factor (a lot of people disagree though) is OBL, the amount of outbound links found in a page, the less the better. That metric is in SEO spyglass too.

The reason bloggroll links don't do so well is because (lots of people disagree) they all originate from the same IP address.

[xiro25]

I buy both blogrolls and blogpost. It is important to get links from different sources. I have seen sites rank with just footer links and I have seen sites rank with just blogrolls or just blogpost.

So it is important to diversify.