Hello.. backlinks from a high page rank site can boost your page rank. But, does it matter where on the page your backlink is? meaning, if a site links to my site within the content of thier site, and another site links to me in the footer of thier site, is it better for the link to be within the content? so, assume both sites have the same page rank, one site links to me within thier content (like in an article) and the other site links to me at the footer of their website.....is the first links considerabaly better as far as my page rank will go?
I don't think it matters where the link is for page rank but if the link is in the article it is most likely related to the content so it will help your serps
Occasionally, the links from content site are better. However, the site has 2000 links, if you put your link on the footer or sidewide, you will receive nearly 2000 backlinks, if you add it on the site's content, you can get a little number of links (less than 10). In brief, with the same PR, the same number of backlinks, links from sites'content are much more better!
It doesn't matter. A link is a link. Hidden links are still backlinks. So it does not matter where the link is located.
so, i am getting two different answers again, assume both sites are highly relevant, so it will be a relevant backlink.... so, if one link is in the footer - and the other link is the main body of the site - will it make a difference for page rank?
I don't think it makes any difference in pr as the spiders have to get it....yeah the traffic can be different in case of link in content or footer.
For toolbar PR, it doesn't matter where on a page a link is. If there are more than 50 - 100 links on a page, I wouldn't want my link too far down on a page or it might not count at all. Most people would prefer either a content link or a link high up on a page. I wouldn't be surprised if the real PR used page location as a factor. It would make sense that an in-content link should count for more than say a menubar link which is likely an ad. Eventually I think Google might devalue all footer links due to the high number of paid links in footers.
as far as PR is concerned, location of link don't matter but I am pretty sure that incontent link do get more value. Its more about neighborhood actually rather than location. For example, on a technology blog, suddenly if search engines see a random weight loss link, then this should raise an eyebrow or two.
i say they provide the same amount of PR juice-boost, but in content links are potentially more natural and can have related keywords in the content, helping it rank better in the SERPs.
I think that's not a probs. only the backlink number will change. but google may give some more importance to the link which is from the body content or from articles. that is depending upon the search engine based.
It doe not matter because crawler can not make difference in footer or top links, for crawler both are links. And Google crawler crawls the whole page at a time not like that top half first and bottom half after some days lol.