I heard that offering sidewide and footer links, hurt the quality of your directory, especially in the eyes of google. Is it true? I am afraid of using this thinking that google might ban my site. Also, is it necessary to use no follow on sitewide or footer links? whats your advice. Thanks
If the sitewide are related to your site I don’t think they will hurt, but probably you will lose PR on internal pages, and on big sites with loot’s of inner pages on deep levels you will feel it the most.
You're deflating pagerank for sure. As far as getting banned that would happen if your linking to a bunch of already banned sites. See if the sites your linking to are indexed.
Couldn't have said it better. Thats some real advice and it depends if u want to keep the rank of ur internal pages.
It will hurt you in that people wont wanna buy links in your categories because you will already have plenty of out going links... the less outgoing links the more customers.
sitewide links (placed like google ads in boxes) anyway considered as outgoing links along with other directory submissions. what difference does it make? further how does established directories sell site widewide links, something like $200/mon. Just need to know about this. Thanks
I was wondering the same thing - thinking about offering some sitewides on my sites but don't want to hurt them any...
Sitewides doesn't hurt your site, there is no PR blackhole or such stuff with sitewides. I think what seiya says is true somehow but still i don't believe it hurts directories or websites. Agressive dumb sitewide or cross linking strategies are not a good idea and can result to punishments from G especially. Not only for directories but, if you have many sites from different theme, don't link all of your sites in sitewide!!! Just link them in sitewides by 'family', if you apply weird sitewides linking surely it doesn't help. Also if you link sitewide to all your sites, they are going to share PR in a madness way, it is good for your directories and the links in the directories also. I got PR4 for http://isamu.eu just because it was in sitewide with my other directories
I think this is a bad idea, people wont want link in the categories because of all the out going links and it could also hurt you in Google. You have to compare the negatives against the positives and IMHO in this case the negatives is far more than the postives
You will see many well established, and high PR, directories with sitewide footer, or sponsored links. To minimize any potential problems just keep the number of sitewides low. Something like 4 or 5 is good. You will see on these directories that do offer these sitewide links that it is primarily other directories that purchase these links. So you have relevance. Both for you in your outbound links (Google takes into account who you link to), and for them with their inbounds. I hear that Google discounts sitewides. In other words they count the big index page link and effectively ignore all the other hundreds of links from all your internal pages. The directories that purchase your sitewides get the benefit of your index page link (from Google) and the added benefit of traffic (from submitters) from your other pages, particularly your submit page. After they submit they may click a sponsor link to go submit there too.
You could always integrate some sort of script to some how rotate the link order.. that way the same links would be used but shown in a different order... hence each page would have the links but in a different order... don't know if that would help in the case of page PR devaluation...
good idea though, but still it wouldnt help. say if there is 1000 pages in directory and no matter how you rotate the same ads shown only in different positions, but outgoing links the same. I am still wondering how to make money with sitewide links. I prefer to stay on the safer side than making money.