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WP Blogroll links

by STLSEO
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On one of my Wordpress blogs I have the blogroll widget on the sidebar with a bunch of links to my clients websites. The blog is about St. Louis Businesses, and thus all of the links are relevant to the content on the site.

When I run a backlink analysis, I notice that those links are being counted for every post/page on the blog. I'm trying to figure out if this is hurting me more than helping.

For example:

The backlink anchor text "St. Louis Printing" shows up about 20 times on my backlink analysis report. It's being counted for every page/post on the blog.

Is this bad for my rankings, or is it ok because of the fact that they're all coming from different pages within the blog?:confused:

Your feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks fellow Warriors.

Here is the website
#blogroll #links
  • Profile picture of the author nik0
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    Google made a pretty clear statement lately that they send out new warning messages for people that have blogroll links pointed at their website. Few days after a client emails me that received exactly that message. It made me remove all the blogroll links on my guest post sites, just out of pre-caution.

    Scared? Yes definitely cause Google advises the webmasters to report it and I ain't gonna put my network on risk while I can easily avoid it by using contextual links instead of blogroll/sitewide/sidebar links, little more expensive cause it costs content, but definitely worth it.
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    • Profile picture of the author STLSEO
      Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

      Google made a pretty clear statement lately that they send out new warning messages for people that have blogroll links pointed at their website. Few days after a client emails me that received exactly that message. It made me remove all the blogroll links on my guest post sites, just out of pre-caution.

      Scared? Yes definitely cause Google advises the webmasters to report it and I ain't gonna put my network on risk while I can easily avoid it by using contextual links instead of blogroll/sitewide/sidebar links, little more expensive cause it costs content, but definitely worth it.
      I agree. I think I need to get rid of them. It's weird though because none of the contextual links within the content on the site are showing up on my backlink analysis reports. I'm using multiple sources too.

      (Cognitive, hrefs, Spyglass, SEMrush)

      I wonder why the backlinks within the content aren't showing up. Very strange.
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    • Profile picture of the author sovereignn
      Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

      Google made a pretty clear statement lately that they send out new warning messages for people that have blogroll links pointed at their website. Few days after a client emails me that received exactly that message. It made me remove all the blogroll links on my guest post sites, just out of pre-caution.

      Scared? Yes definitely cause Google advises the webmasters to report it and I ain't gonna put my network on risk while I can easily avoid it by using contextual links instead of blogroll/sitewide/sidebar links, little more expensive cause it costs content, but definitely worth it.
      Blogrolls are definitely the worst idea. Especially if the other websites aren't in the same Niche.

      That means they're obviously paying for links which isn't allowed unless the links have the nofollow tag
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  • Profile picture of the author nik0
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    Yeah somehow it seems that back link checkers are ignoring a lot of link types, I also never see indexed web2.0's show up in those tools. Well hardly.
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