Hi y'all. Curious if link location matters from a high quality / volume site? Such as having a link on their links page vs. front page in terms of SEO only. I know in terms of referring traffic it does but I'm thinking in terms of organic google traffic and SEO page ranking. Thanks in advance.
If that's your main concern, of course site wide links are the most important because it appears on all pages. Basically, as long as the backlink is located at a particular page with high PR and traffic, that should be good.
Yep, as long as the backlink is on a page with some PR, then it will count more then on one with no PR irregardless of whether it is on the front page or a subpage.
What you want is a link from a related page that has your keywords in the anchor text. So in your example the home page is probably a much better fit. I'd rather have that one link than a site wide link or a links page link.
Doesn't Google have a policy to penalize site wide links? If that's the case, then site wide links will actually decrease your PR?
You want your links on a page that has a good page rank and has few other links on that page. So for example it might seem like a good idea to have your link on the links page of a site because the PR is 4. However there may be 50 other links on that page, which there usually is a with links page. In which case the main index page which has a PR2 and no outgoing links other than yours would be much better. The more external links out of a given webpage the more PR it loses