Site-Wide Links - Worth Anything?

[gadget]

Are site-wide blogroll style links worth anything these days? I know single, in-article, links are good but wanted to see what the latest thinking was for site-wide links is. In fact, could they do any harm and should therefore be removed?

[Brendon]

It depends (which isn't terribly helpful, I know). Sounds like you've got a handle on why though

[morleymouse]

From my experience they work in getting a page looked at, however because they are site wide and the same on all pages the anchor text carries next to no weight.

[MrCatz]

It does help for traffic reasons. For SEO, minimal value. It may also appear as an advertisement if it would appear on every single page in the eyes of the SE's - in which case, it may do more harm than good.

[ash]

Originally Posted by morleymouse because they are site wide and the same on all pages the anchor text carries next to no weight.

I'd disagree with that, they certainly do carry weight but like most links the site linking to you will determine the weight that any particular link might carry.

The key is to vary your links.

[babrees]

OK, Please excuse my total ignorance, but what are classed as site wide links?

[fizzbird]

Originally Posted by babrees OK, Please excuse my total ignorance, but what are classed as site wide links?

Links which are on every page.

[gadget]

Like a 'Blogroll' list on Wordpress sites.

[Brendon]

IIRC, you get full value for one (1) link, and the rest are marked waaaaay down. Millions of them can have an additional effect though

[Dazza30]

Are you talking about having the same links on every page, or about having different links on every page?

[TinkyWinky]

If it looks unnatural then you will get no benefit and possibly be black-flagged (in my experience :|)

Depends whether the site is 8 pages, 80 pages or 8000 pages.

I personally wouldn't touch them with a barge pole.