Can anyone give me their opinion, as to what is best for SEO, sitewide links or just home page link? I have sourced 7 relevant sites that are prepared to put a limited number of text links on their site, a maximum of 10. But I don't know if sitewide or just homepage is best for SEO? Tell me what you think, based on your experience.
I have heard a lot of talk about sitewide links being troublesome with Google. I don't have any proof on it one way or another, but the mere talk of it is enough to scare many away from doing too much of it, I think.
By sitewide, if you mean linking to your internal pages, definately do it. This is commonly referred to as deep linking. Think about it. If you go to a page on a website that you like and think you will want to return to, don't you bookmark it? I know I do. The bookmark is for that particular page and not the homepage. So, yes, go for links on your internal pages. It doesn't make sense to just link to a homepage. Hope this helps, Zeek
I buy sitewide from blogs and also buy links within blog posts. But for normal sites, I avoid sitewides and stick to homepages. As mystikmedia said, I have also heard about negative impact of sitewide links so I avoid them. For blogrolls however, it seems natural because I also have natural sitewide blogroll links from bloggers who happened to like my site.
Doesn't make sense to me. Not arguing or anything like that but.. Given, that each page, not site or homepage, is ranked individually, why think that not linking to the page that has the information on it that people are looking for, is wrong? Take a forum for example. How many times have you Googled a phrase and ended up in a forum? Not the homepage, but the page that had the info you were looking for? I would say all the time. When I reference a definition from wikipedia, I reference the page the info is on, not the homepage. Search engines return the same thing Good luck, Zeek
I think the reason is If you buy a sitewide link, it means that suddenly you have backlinks in a huge amount (imagine if the site has 1000 pages) in a short period of time. It's bad for Google coz it doesn't look natural. Buying homepage link it means you only got one link from the homepage only. That's come to my mind why buying sitewide link is risky.
I will not prefer you to but that links. Much better if you will do it on your own way. You will see the results of what you are doing.
home page link is better. All the sites home pag4 have good rank and also easily will indexed your site
ZEEKSTERN - You are confusing deep linking and sitewide links. They can be easily confussed... Lets say- A PR 4 page Sports domain (www.sportsXXXXXXXXXXXXX.com) currently has 975 internal pages and is offering to sell a homepage link (only 1 paid link will be placed on the home page domain) for $20 a month. Or they are willing to place the same link tou your site on EVERY single page on thier site www.sportsXXXXXXXXXXXXX.com, for a total of 975 internal pages, and one homepage link for a total of 976 links with the same anchor text going to the same url. That is not natural (except for maybe a blogroll) With the above example, I would not buy a site wide. I would ask, if instead of a sitewide, if I could have one or two home page links, and then get 2 to 8 on the strongest interior pages of the 976 page site, going to my home pages or interior pages (deep linking) and change the anchor text. This is what we do on most of the sites we buy links on and it works great. I won't do sitewides at all. To me they are not natural, and google loves things that look natural.
yes it works my site is related to herbal but when i added a word "hebal" in inner pages from external link(anchor tag), google cached it work and get me indexed for this word, side wide links are cached by SE,.