Yahoo & Sitewide Links

I have a site that is top 10 in Yahoo! for a term that I have been going after for a few months. With the last update I went in at number 5 and have been bouncing between 5 and 10 ever since.

This site has a sitewide link from one of my forums. Now that I am doing some work on the forum, what effect would removing the sitewide have?

Do sitewide links work with Yahoo any more?

Thanks for your help!

 

This will affect if down for long time.

 

I'm not convinced sitewide links work ant better than a home page link. I think all SE's would disregard the rest apart from the homepage because it is on the same site. I doubt it would have been this that caused you to drop in the rankings though as no incoming link should be able to negatively affect you in the rankings

 

G is known to discount sidewide links and take them as a single backlink. As for Y! and MSN, they are still rewarding. So removing them will definitely affect on your rankings.

 

Hi There,

what is a sidewide link is,

I use to have a link pages on my site not on the main page, i just took the link page of about three days ago, someone tod me that its better to inbound links only and not outbound links,

any Comments please

 

A sitewide link is a link from every page of one site pointing to the same page of a second site. Yahoo and MSN love sitewide links.

 

Thank you

Can you tell me please how do you add this links to your respond.

 

You need to go to your "User CP" and edit your signature.

 

im not so sure about yahoo and sitewide

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/deletions/deletions-05.html
Excessively cross-linking sites to inflate a site's apparent popularity
Large-scale domain interlinking

Common reasons that URLs do not qualify for Site Match include:
- Cloaking (showing crawlers deceptive content about a site)
- Large-scale domain interlinking
- Use of affiliate programs without the addition of substantial unique cont=
ent
- Use of reciprocal link programs (aka "link farms")
- Hidden text
- Excessive keyword repetition

 

I said nothing of cross-linking. That is more than just getting some sitewide links. If someone links to me from every page of their forum but I don't return the same from my site then I get sitewide links but there is no cross-linking.

 

i know you didnt say cross linking
but im wondering what the SE really call it
and what do they consider cross linking?

 

I would call excessive linking between two sites, cross-linking.

 

can excessive be defined?
how do we trully know what the SE's consider excessive ..

i hate not knowing
its very frustrating.
im not doing any more linking or recp linking except in the same niche

 

It is hard to define it how Yahoo might see it so the best plan is to play it safe and keep your linking looking natural. Natural, yeah, whatever that is.

 

IMO, site-wides don't have the same punch in Yahoo they had 6 months ago.