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Sitewide footer links Good or Bad?

by shobee
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Hello Every one,

So i want to discuss about site wide footer back links please tell me this is a Good practice or bad.

Like if we are online services provider so i can use my own site link on client's site Footer section such as Powered by "Example.com"

How Google is consider kind of footer links?
#bad #footer #good #links #sitewide
  • Profile picture of the author WPcrew
    Nowadays you can see lot of articles that this is "bad" practice, but anyway, people / agencies do it. Sometimes is more valuable to get visitors that way then link juice, depends.

    To prove my point - you can find few WordPress themes sites out there, that offer theme sponsorship. Basically, you pay them to put your link in the footer, they release theme on their site, and those themes are massively downloaded, and generate plenty of links. If they still do it, it means it works, no matter what Google and "experts" say. Anyway, follow the links from themes, see rankings, that's the best answer.
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    • Profile picture of the author joe ferdinando
      I have many sites that have Powered by, designed by, installed by, setup by, etc.

      I have found in google and bing that when I have done searches for my main domain that these links came in with my search. It doesnt happen over night but they are found and added. about 75% are found,

      So I think its a good thing!
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  • Profile picture of the author Webkingseo
    In my view it is still a good practice simply because it will bring a lot of real traffic on your websites and its a good thing to have .
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  • Profile picture of the author patadeperro
    Originally Posted by shobee View Post

    Hello Every one,

    So i want to discuss about site wide footer back links please tell me this is a Good practice or bad.

    Like if we are online services provider so i can use my own site link on client's site Footer section such as Powered by "Example.com"

    How Google is consider kind of footer links?
    I personally don't use footers, I create a header with the links I want, in my experience that works better, the footer links power have had a reduce effect in my experience.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    Footer links are the lowest of the low. In 2014, anything there is almost useless.

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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Google doesn't like those types of links when used for ranking pages but they still work.

    I find it hard to believe a paying client would want your link (any service provider link) anywhere on their site.
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  • Profile picture of the author jxam69
    Google refers to the practice of "Widely distributed links in the footers or templates of various sites" as a link scheme which goes against their Webmaster Guidelines.

    If you don't get a manual penalty for it, you run the risk of getting algorithmically caught by Penguin.
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by jxam69 View Post

      Google refers to the practice of "Widely distributed links in the footers or templates of various sites" as a link scheme which goes against their Webmaster Guidelines.

      If you don't get a manual penalty for it, you run the risk of getting algorithmically caught by Penguin.
      I have a few site wide footer links to same niche external sites which IMO is probably how I get away with not having any problems. I think niche relevancy between the two sites is the key.
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      • Profile picture of the author jxam69
        Originally Posted by yukon View Post

        I have a few site wide footer links to same niche external sites which IMO is probably how I get away with not having any problems. I think niche relevancy between the two sites is the key.
        Actually, I left out an important part of the definition which was that they are referring to "links that weren't editorially placed or vouched for by the site's owner".

        So if they look like they're editorially placed you shouldn't have any problem at least with manual reviews - although I sometimes wonder if algorithms can always tell the difference.
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