Hi There seems to be some dispute as to whether Home Page or Pernament Articles Links offer better value. I prefer permanent articles links. Does anyone have an opinion?
IMO, Permanent Article Links is better than home page. You know, google is more and more smart when counting back links.
There are certain people that won't admit this, but I believe that home page links are more valuable...... with a few exceptions. First, the overall site has to be on-topic with your site, otherwise the link isn't worth anything. Second, link placement will matter. If its inside some good content, then thats great. But if its in the nav, footer, or anywhere else, then it won't be worth as much.... but still worth SOMETHING if the site is on-topic. And that 'something' will be better than an article link. Other than that, this will break down to nothing more than page popularity, and the home page is always linked to more than anything else, on ANY site. The PERFECT link, will be located in the middle of some content, on the home page, of a site that's on-theme with yours, and has LOTS of backlinks. "But Stitch, what if I have a chance at getting a link on an internal page, instead of the home page, and its filled with all kinds of good content" There is some debate on the value of internal pages, but to sum it all up.... 'popularity'. At any given time, the internal pages of a site can go into the supplemental index. Not necessarily a terrible thing, but what sounds like it has more weight - The index page which will ALWAYS be around, or an internal page that might get tossed into the sup index because of added filters, or worse.... been deleted by the user because its outdated content. In the end, if you step back and take a look at the bigger picture, you can tell that Google's most recent updates concerning the 'quality' of a link, is nothing more than a way to combat things like article sites. The problem with those types of sites is the fact that the content is 'user' generated, and EVERY link placed with each article is biased. Not to mention, these articles very rarely get linked to. If "I" were a search engineer, I wouldn't give ANY credit to article site links.
Are you talking about permanent homepage links? If so I would say homepage if the site gets a lot of traffic. This would probably result in more visitors from that site.
permanent links give the best results but i also suggest you to have all types of backlinks to get good serp results