Yahoo & Sitewide Links

[andy_boyd]

I have a site that is top 10 in Yahoo! for a term that I have been going after for a few months. With the last update I went in at number 5 and have been bouncing between 5 and 10 ever since.

This site has a sitewide link from one of my forums. Now that I am doing some work on the forum, what effect would removing the sitewide have?

Do sitewide links work with Yahoo any more?

Thanks for your help!

[vinod2005]

This will affect if down for long time.

[heapseo]

I'm not convinced sitewide links work ant better than a home page link. I think all SE's would disregard the rest apart from the homepage because it is on the same site. I doubt it would have been this that caused you to drop in the rankings though as no incoming link should be able to negatively affect you in the rankings

[sufyaaan]

I'm not convinced sitewide links work ant better than a home page link. I think all SE's would disregard the rest apart from the homepage because it is on the same site. I doubt it would have been this that caused you to drop in the rankings though as no incoming link should be able to negatively affect you in the rankings
G is known to discount sidewide links and take them as a single backlink. As for Y! and MSN, they are still rewarding. So removing them will definitely affect on your rankings.

[Lisa White]

Hi There,

what is a sidewide link is,

I use to have a link pages on my site not on the main page, i just took the link page of about three days ago, someone tod me that its better to inbound links only and not outbound links,

any Comments please

[Web Gazelle]

A sitewide link is a link from every page of one site pointing to the same page of a second site. Yahoo and MSN love sitewide links.

[Lisa White]

Thank you

Can you tell me please how do you add this links to your respond.

[Web Gazelle]

You need to go to your "User CP" and edit your signature.

[bloodwrath]

A sitewide link is a link from every page of one site pointing to the same page of a second site. Yahoo and MSN love sitewide links.

im not so sure about yahoo and sitewide

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/deletions/deletions-05.html
Excessively cross-linking sites to inflate a site's apparent popularity
Large-scale domain interlinking

Common reasons that URLs do not qualify for Site Match include:
- Cloaking (showing crawlers deceptive content about a site)
- Large-scale domain interlinking
- Use of affiliate programs without the addition of substantial unique cont=
ent
- Use of reciprocal link programs (aka "link farms")
- Hidden text
- Excessive keyword repetition

[Web Gazelle]

I said nothing of cross-linking. That is more than just getting some sitewide links. If someone links to me from every page of their forum but I don't return the same from my site then I get sitewide links but there is no cross-linking.

[bloodwrath]

I said nothing of cross-linking. That is more than just getting some sitewide links. If someone links to me from every page of their forum but I don't return the same from my site then I get sitewide links but there is no cross-linking.

i know you didnt say cross linking
but im wondering what the SE really call it
and what do they consider cross linking?

[Web Gazelle]

I would call excessive linking between two sites, cross-linking.

[bloodwrath]

can excessive be defined?
how do we trully know what the SE's consider excessive ..

i hate not knowing
its very frustrating.
im not doing any more linking or recp linking except in the same niche

[Web Gazelle]

It is hard to define it how Yahoo might see it so the best plan is to play it safe and keep your linking looking natural. Natural, yeah, whatever that is. :rolleyes:

[smindsrt]

IMO, site-wides don't have the same punch in Yahoo they had 6 months ago.