Site Wide Links
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I have a link on pr 3 home page website placed in the side bar. It is on a WordPress website that spans a couple hundred pages and the side bar is on every page. The majority of the pages are not ranked or have any pr. Can this affect me negatively?
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...so you're not creating a hundred low quality links with the same anchor text and shooting yourself in the foot....
Is your anchor text Texas hold 'em?
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A link to YOUR site is on a sitewide blogroll?
Lose it. Especially if there is no PR on internal pages. Ask them to make the link homepage only so you're not creating a hundred low quality links with the same anchor text and shooting yourself in the foot.
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Hi Raphael,
I agree with the previous assessment. However, I would add a couple of other things to keep in mind:
- If you bought the link, it can definitely hurt you.
- If the site is not indexed/is penalized/has a lot of other spammy stuff on it, it can hurt you.
- If you own the other site and are trying to "game" the system it could hurt you.
I hope this helps and good luck to you!
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It's really going to depend on the relevancy of that link to the pages it shows up on. There was a really good Whiteboard Friday a few months back about this from John Doherty.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/smarter-internal-linking-whiteboard-friday
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Without seeing the link i would say - i dont think any 1 sidebar link will have a negative effect on you if you have a normal looking backlink profile.
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