I am a little confused, because earlier you had said:

The first link gives you 100% SEO benefit

The second link gives you 25% SEO benefit

The third link gives you 5% SEO benefit

The fourth link gives you <1% SEO benefit

Does the above still apply?

Thanks

Just to clarify David, if I own the domain seomoz.org and place an article on searchengineland.com with 5 links pointing back to seomoz.org those links pass 20%? not:

link 1 :100%

link 2: 50% and so on.....

I THINK I read somewhere that if you had let's say 4 links in your article all pointing to different pages on your website, those 4 links would all pass the same value (link juice) 25%, however if you had just 1 link in the article it would get the full 100%, maybe I am just making this up or dreamt it, who knows.

Your understanding could also be correct, has this came from research? has anyone here at SEOMOZ mentioned anything of this, WBF?

Thanks

This all makes sense David.

My understanding was that if you have 1 link in the article then this gets 100% SEO benefit, if you have 2 links in the article the SEO benefit is 50% for each link, if you have 3 links in the article the SEO benefit is 33.333% for each an so on....

Have I got it wrong then?

Thanks

Thanks David.

The article in question has 3 valid links. You say "After a while there is no additional value at all" what do you mean by this?

Thanks

Hi David,

Sorry for not being clear.

What I meant is an external website, for example let's say my website is seomoz.org and I am placing an article on searchengineland.com, what is the maximum amount of links you would use linking back to seomoz.org? I take it the more links you have pointing back to seomoz.org the less linkjuice this is passed, right?

Thanks

Hi David,

Thanks for your feedback.

What about external blogs pointing back to your website, would you still keep this rule of thumb with 2-3 links per article on an external blog?

Thanks

Hi there,

I have just written an article that is due to be posted on an external blog, the article has potentially 3 links that could link to 3 different pages on my website, is this too much? what do you recommend being the maximum number of links?

Thanks for any help

Hi Amod,

I have also experienced this, our developer accidentally placed this "nofollow" tag across the entire website.

1. Yes, just get Google to fetch your pages via webmaster tools.

2. No.

3. No.

4). Rankings will come back as Matt has pointed out, no need to worry.

Hi EGOL,

I am having the same issue also, these websites are not out ranking me for a particular keyword, however if I copy and paste the first few paragraphs of text into Google on one of my product pages lots of other websites are above my listing that has copied my content, even though my page has higher authority and PR.

Should I be worrying about this?

Kind Regards

Hi Geoff.

1. These are not websites I own, I had asked the webmaster to remove these site-wide links which they did.

2. They are not hosted on the same server.

3. The anchor text was keyword specific.

4. As a preventative measure, however it looks like this has back-fired.

5. Not to my knowledge, check PR and all is still the same.

6. Yes, they do have other links pointing to it, however in terms of percentage very little, as these were site-wide which was going into the thousands.

Some keywords have disappeared that were not in the site-wide links, which is a concern, maybe there is something else going on?

Shall I get the webmaster to re-instate these site-wide links?

Hi Anthony,

As a preventative measure, however it looks like it's backfired. The site-wide links were not on spammy websites, there were high PR, lots of social interaction etc.

Would you ask to get these back on site-wide?

Hi Geoff,

I am removing site-wide links externally.

Hi there,

I have recently removed quite a lot of site-wide links leaving the only link on homepage's of some websites, since doing this I have seen a dramatic drop on my keywords, going from position 2-3 to nowhere.

Has anyone else experienced anything like this, should I expect to see a return on these keywords?

Thanks