I'm new to SEO and I’ve been having some problems understanding what sitewide linking is exactly and what types of sitewide linking is acceptable by the search engines. Can anyone give me examples of sites that engage in acceptable sitewide linking and ones that do unacceptable sitewide linking? I realize sitewide links are usually devalued and not penalized, however at what point might a site be penalized for using sitewides? Is there any guide to sitewides that explains what is acceptable and what is not? Also, don't search engines and other major websites engage in sitewide linking when they post banner and other advertisments on their pages?
site wide linking is when you get a link from every page on someones website to yours. this seems to be effective on some search engines, but not Google. better model is to get a presell page, where every page links to one page on the promoter's site which then profiles yours with a number of deep links. if you have 5000 links coming from only 5 sites - it looks unnatural if you have 5000 links coming from 4567 sites - it looks more natural better to get the links from 4567 sites in place first before you introduce the links from the 5 sites to bring you up to 10,000 in bound links. pointing site wides at an immature site has been considered an effective way of getting your site sand boxed in Google (held back in the rankings until stronger reputation is established over 3 to 6 months)
Im not sure that I agree with you there. Many say that it is aggressive link building which lands sites in the sandbox (ie. using sitwide links etc) however I am more of the belief all sites targetting moderate to highly competitive search terms land in the sandbox, regardless of how well you SEO the site. I would like to see evidence otherwise.