What is a static link? I've never really paid much attention to this but i was searching for links for sale on ebay and someone was offering a link on over 6,000 webpages. Sounded good at first, but then I read that it would be a static link so you can't check real time stats. I was a little confused so I checked the URL's of some of the places that the link would be placed on and then viewed the page source and I couldn't find the place where the link would go and other links where. So I assume a static link is a link that won't be spidered by search engines, right?
A static link is one that appears at the same location on a page every time it loads. Virtually 100% of natural links and the great majority of directory links are static. A static link will be spidered unless there is, for example, a robots.txt or rel = nofollow instruction to the contrary. Compare this with rotating links. A rotating link may not appear when a page loads - it is on a rotation cycle with other links. This type of link is often used in advertizing. It will also be spidered by search engines (unless again there is robots.txt or rel = no follow) but the rotating link only has a certain percentage chance of being on the page each time spider visits. Google and Yahoo are believed to devalue rotating links whereas their effect still has value in MSN's search results. If you've checked the source code of the pages you are interested in and you cannot see links that should be there, then chances are the SE spiders won't be able to read or follow these links either, so they will have no SEO value.