Should I buy a site-wide text link from a PageRank of 8/10

I have recently been offered a site-wide text link from a website with a PageRank of 8/10 at a very resonable price, I have been reading up about it and there seems to be mixed views about site-wide text links. My experience of them is that they work a charm. Here's an example about 18 months ago I used to work at this company called Iomart and I sold mini optimised websites with a generic domain name and sometimes they worked alright on MSN and Yahoo but never on Google and they never got a pagerank of above 2/10, I clocked on that the sites needed links to work and I said to one of my customers to place a link to your mini site from your main site, his main site had a pagerank of 5/10 on many of the pages, he placed a site-wide link to the mini-site from his main site and withinn a month or two the mini-site had a google pagerank of 5/10, the mini-site did incredible in MSN and Yahoo and pretty good in Google, far better then any of the other mini sites I had sold. I have read about a few people saying that site-wide links will actually harm your rankings, is this correct? I have quite a few site-wide links already and my rankings are staedily increasing on all search engines, should I by this PageRank 8/10 site wide text link?

 

A pr8 isnt going to hurt your rankings, especially if its related.

 

Check the respective page´s PR, your link is going to be placed to. Not the site´s PR.

I know I am going to bore you soon repeating this so often, but it is not the same.


The site has PR8, but the page your link is going to be placed on is just PR3. You will only get a portion of that page´s PR, based on the number of sites (peges) it links to...

So, forget about PR8, you more probably get PR2...

 

Wow. I can see you know what site-wide means

 

ok, andre, you won.

 

Site-wide hurting is just a rumor, some folks believe it but most don't. Getting a good price on a PR8 link is great. That link alone could get you a PR6 or 7 on your site. Best if it is related.

good luck

 

Check that site's PR with authority Pr checking tool. There are many cases have been logged with highjacked PR. So be aware. It can be real site but for your safety it should check it with PR checking tool.

 

I've always found a site wide link will rock. Mainly because you're getting lots of Anchor text love from every page on the site

 

You have to determine how many page is indexed by this pr8 site.
IMHO Google will definatley penalize you if your site is only a few 100 pages and you get an link on a pr8 site with 100 000's of pages.

 

I think if site is related then there will be no problem regarding this!

 

There will be a problem. Doesn't look very natural to G if you get tons of links in a few days... I have had this problem recently

 

Let's test that theory by everyone linking to one of my websites!

 

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As I said in a previous post we have to see how much pages are indexed of the site providing the site-wide link.

 

I dont think it will hurt your rankings. It will definitly help your PR though. I am yet to see the evidence for the theory that the sitewide links will get you penalised. (It could be discounted, but unless you overdo it with a zillion pages, it shouldnt hurt - hasnt hurt me anyway - yet

 

Hmmm...I'm pretty "white hat" about SEO when it comes to important sites that I plan on having around for a long time. If I were working with such a site, I may seek to get the home page link from a PR8 site, but the link across an entire site, especially if there are many pages, may look suspicious. May not hurt now, but perhaps in 3 months, 6 months, next year? Tough to say though...

 

Yes, I understand. Who knows what Google really does, but it would be silly for Google to leave it up to your competitors to destroy your rankings. At the worst, I image a sitewide link is devalued or just totally ignored. If I am wrong, I would go as far to say that Google is wrong.

 

I think sitewide links are cool...Just don't get a sitewide link from a site with 100,000 of pages and you have a small site...

 

I tried buying a number of PR6 and PR7 links from text link brokers and pointed them to one of my sites. It had absolutely no effect at all. I got my money back. That was a great experiment which I won't be repeating. It's really about getting lots of quality relevant links to your site. But please let me know if it works for you Dave.

 

Sitewide,obviously means getting alot of links from one website at a very rapid pace,as they are putting it up,and therefore IMHO I think you will probably get some PR from the pages of the site your link is on,but your rankings can at the same time be penalized for getting to many links to fast.So that's what I think.

 

here an important point is that "getting a site-wide link with 1000's of pages" != increasing your inbounds very fast.

whenever increasing your IBL's very fast hurts with google is said with respect to google, it means that when you try to point too many sitewide IBL's from different sites. sitewide links from thousands of pages from a "single" site would not hurt with google - they give you an advantage or not, that may vary though