I was just thinking if sitewide links still work in the eyes of Google? Anyone has test results to show that it works?
Of course - a link on every single page is much different than a link on one single page. Test it out yourself and you'll see that they count. You can use Google Webmasters too.
The effectiveness is still the same? I thought at one point in time sitewide links are getting inffective...
They will be eventually, but for now they count the same or about the same as if someone else is creating the pages and linking them to yours. That's why it is good to have tables instead of frames. That's why blogs are so effective at advertising - every page can have a menu with your site links in it. Like this one here: http://vestrite.blogspot.com/ Yahoo! is trying to do something to fix it, but what can they do? I can just go create another site on another server and link it to mine and it could all be one web site...just spread out. And how could Yahoo! track that? So in a nutshell, yes. Sitewide links are important. Oh! I just thought of another reason to provide sitewide links. Each web page has a certain amount of Page Rank that it can evenly distribute to other web pages. If your navigational links are on that web page, then your other pages are recieving the "link juice" and not just the few links to other sites that you happen to have on the page. This is why web directories are made into separate pages - so that the top pages of listings can get what they paid for - quality links and exposure...aka you pay more, we'll put less links on the page so that you can have more "link juice".