am not getting your point! you have said, "footer link have less importance than footer link" is it a type! do you mean : "footer link have less importance than sidebar link" please conferm this!
Type A would be footer link, Type B would be sidebar link, what's the difference, they're both links?
there is a slight bit of difference! the bot reads the pages from top to bottom and from left to right! so the top links or sidebar links gets more exposure than the bottom footer link! may be this makes a slight difference, not much! but IMHO this point of mine is not all that wrong!
I know the algo's of a bot, but they read it all anyway so it really doesn't make any difference at all where you put the link as long as it can be read. It can be high in the page it would be no better than bottom, I may be wrong but dont think so.
the problem is the same, you can't prove me wrong, and i can't prove this thing correct!! also, in text link ads, i have seen that they pay more for top links than footer links! the sidebar links sells at higher rates than footer links everywhere!! anyways, cheers
I once read, cant remember where, that google places less emphasis on footer links. it knows the links are near the end of the file and not embedded in content, so knows they are often paid links etc. I dunno if its true, you'd have to ask a google employee
may be we can start a thread in the seo section! and ask that sidebar links have more value or footer links! actually i have also read this somewhere but just can't recall!
I'm not in the game to prove you wrong mate, not interested in that. The idea is to debate the strength of either oen, to me it looks like even stevens as long as they get indexed, an example would be an 'about us' page which nearly every site on the web has on the footer, they always get indexed well.