Comments on: Beware: Site-wide links are bad for your new blog

By: Doser

Doser — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 21:13:17 +0000

i joined so many seo forum on the internet and they are really quite helpful and i have learned a lot.

By: nitinsingh

nitinsingh — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:09:45 +0000

It might have been the fact that the sitewide link was in the *footer* that hurt you more. I just think links from the footer could be seen as spammy by Google

By: Jurez Loch

Jurez Loch — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:13:22 +0000

I’ve been using the footer link technique every time I have a new site so it will be indexed fast. It turned out to be good for me.

By: Sudden drop in ranking - WebProWorld

Sudden drop in ranking - WebProWorld — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:57:13 +0000

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By: sumegha gupta

sumegha gupta — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:50:53 +0000

you wont believe how euphoric i m feeling by reading this post..i am in the same position..and i cant tell you ..how much i have already worked on my new site..and from 1 to 600 ..i really tried my heart out ..and then i found your post..i have removed all my site wide links and my figures are crossed to check what happens..i hope it turn out to be true for me too …thanks a ton..you are a life saver

By: Mike @ CSS Perk

Mike @ CSS Perk — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:46:38 +0000

Hey, thanks for this post! Saved me a whole lot of trouble. I was days away from agreeing to link to my buddy’s new site on my blog. Thing is, we are sharing hosting, so it would be no good. Thanks for the heads up!

By: Robert S

Robert S — Fri, 16 May 2008 05:30:04 +0000

I have had the same problem before.

The problem is a NEW site YES.

The 2nd part of the problem is that BOTH sites were on the same server.

You could NOT harm a competitior unless you could host a website/s (that had sitewide links) on HIS (the same) server!

By: Karthik

Karthik — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:23:55 +0000

@Pat
Yes, possibly, but I would think Google is intelligent enough to detect site-wide links irrespective of where you place them. And I’m sure they are especially suspicious of new sites, since we’ve been having credit links on our footer to WordPress and the theme author without getting them penalized.

Thanks for visiting!

By: Pat B. Doyle

Pat B. Doyle — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:41:54 +0000

It might have been the fact that the sitewide link was in the *footer* that hurt you more. I just think links from the footer could be seen as spammy by Google.

By: Link Love Episode 5

Link Love Episode 5 — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:03:52 +0000

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