Site-wide links

I'm just trying to get other opinions upon site-wide links, in this stage of the Google's algorithm. Can you most certainly get penalised for this ? I see discussions by old members all over Webmasterworld, Seochat and others, as to GOogle penalising websites, for JUST a single site-wide link.

Would a rel="nofollow" help in not getting your website penalised by using site-wides ? But then where's the SEO help, if the link has a nofollow ?

And in the final stage, should we just NOT get site-wides ? And stick to single links ?

 

I think this discussion is going on for quite some time now.

Imo side-wide links will devaluate the complete website. The side-wide links have little or no effect in google ranking anymore. It might be for traffic but not for seo purpose anymore.

 

Site-Wide links are out. No use just get one or two link from one domain

 

Any other opinions ? Guys ?

 

Site wide links are fine as long as they are not the predominant link type pointing at your site. Speaking from experience

 

Sitewides are out IMO also, getting a backlink on a relevant page is more important to me. Nothing is worse than looking at a directory with 20 paid footer or sidebar links sitewide. I just skip those and go on to the next.

 

Aha... Well the real work goes now, to actually find what that ratio is. Do you have any formula in mind ?

 

Nothing scientific, but i usually try and do a 1/100 ratio. i.e. I don't look for a site wide until I have at least 100 other "regular" links. IMO site wides tend to carry the about the same weight in terms of serp influence (all other factors being equal) as a "regular" link in the Google serps.

 

I seem to see the same situation for a long time now.

The only problem of mine, is that sometimes i can't get only a single link from various sources. I can get only site-wides. And between to refuse and to accept, i always tend to accept.

I guess i won't anymore

Thanks a lot.

 

I hear ya. Two years ago I would start a new site and get 5 sitewides to it the same day. It was a hard habit to break myself from but I did it

 

Damn it. I have to work on that

 

google is not only search engin. it's much easy to rank top on msn / yahoo partners with site-wide links
also few word description matters a lot. that gives boost in any SE

 

Shhhhh, don't let Yahoo and MSN know that or they'll try and fix it

 

haha . every SE is trying it to fix. yahoo and msn had already change algo drastically. may be required to get it mature

 

Are you an alien ? A little green dude from outer galaxy regions ?

Yes or no please ..

 

no
i am just human

 

Ah i was just joking with you

 

i wasn't serious too

 

why bother much about page rank? what most important is to have traffic from that particular site, no?