Comments on: 7 Myths and Educated Theories Behind Sitewide Links

By: Jim Adams

Jim Adams — Fri, 07 May 2010 03:49:22 +0000

Hi Ann, nice to meet you. Thank you for the post. I've been contemplating adding a complimentary site or our parent company's site as it would be a great benefit to our audience. At the same time, I don't want to disrupt the space we're in now. Your post is helpful. Thanks.

Jim Adams – CEO
New Homes Directory .com

By: Jim Adams

Jim Adams — Thu, 06 May 2010 22:49:22 +0000

Jim Adams – CEO
New Homes Directory .com

By: Marcel

Marcel — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:18:31 +0000

I don’t have a links/resources page so added a link to a partner website in the footer of the home page, but only to that page, not wanting google to think they were paid links.

By: Sampath

Sampath — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:00:48 +0000

This is a very interesting discussion. My experience is site wide links work very successfully. Actually this is a very famous SEO myth. If google devalue site wide links you can easily climb up to the top of google by purchasing a massive amount of site wide links for your competitors.

By: UKCIG

UKCIG — Tue, 05 May 2009 06:35:56 +0000

If your dessigner want a link back to their site you can set up a sigle link on the resources-links page on your site, in my opinion links on the footer with this propose must be penalized by google.

By: Chad

Chad — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 07:11:27 +0000

The designed by or Powered By (or whatever ) will never get anyone penalized – just look at wordpress, vbulletin, Joomla etc…. It is a acceptable biz tag and only should also include a nofollow to be 100% compliant even with Google and to prevent any PR leak – the rest of the above childish back and forth is a pure waste of time – and Doug, get your own damn blog and quit trying to play SEO GOD on other peoples blogs – mannnn I just cant stand damn know it alls trying to stroke their own egos

By: Xomero

Xomero — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:46:35 +0000

If your dessigner want a link back to their site you can set up a sigle link on the resources-links page on your site, in my opinion links on the footer with this propose must be penalized by google.

By: cerebro

cerebro — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:51:18 +0000

very interesting

By: dealpocket

dealpocket — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:43:42 +0000

Interesting post. Will try some.

By: Rebecca Haden

Rebecca Haden — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:55:16 +0000

As always, it’s the Natural Look that makes the difference. I’ve been working together with another linkbuilder on a project recently, and it’s been eye-opening. She is in the habit of doing all kinds of things I consider shady, and which look to me completely unnatural. As we work, we see that my links drive traffic and hers don’t. From the client’s point of view, the overall improvement in rankings and PR could be coming from either one of us, but you can’t miss the difference in traffic results.