Soliciting articles and allowing author links?
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We are trying to build up article content on our website, and are looking at soliciting fresh articles from authors on various subjects, and in turn give them an author link back to their website or blog in exchange for writing the article. Our website has massive traffic so this would be a good thing for the author.
My question is this: If I put a couple of anchor text links into the article, having them pointed at various pages on my site, and then allow the author to link back to his site, will I lose the link love in the anchor text? Or does it depend on the number of anchor links I have? Like 3 to 1 type ratio.
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Thanks again Alan!
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Yes, you want lose too much, i think the gain will out weigh the loss.
since we are talking about internal linking, here is a doco i think every one should read.
http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank.html
its a bit old, but the guts is still true.
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Thanks Alan. So basically, if I anchor text 3 or 4 times in the body, above the author backlink,and point my hyperlinks to internal pages, I should get positive link love from Google, as well as have original, relevant content on my website pages.
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yes it goes on a ratio, but it is not simply a straight split. the first link on a page get more, links in the main content are better then those in the footer and the sides. External links may take more then internal.
Article sites normaly have about 100 links pouintingback to their ownn siite so that they lose little.Linking out is no all bad, if the site you link to is relevant or has high authority it can be a positive. but if you opne your site to articles, you will have to review them as you will attract spammers who want to like to crap sites.
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