Comments on: Site-wide links can hurt your rankings

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:37:42 +0000

hmmm interesting post. But from my experience i must to agree, there are a penalty, for site wide-links and for using the same keyword on 3-4 big sites for sure a site with PR4-5 go re-sandboxed.

By: Shumail

Shumail — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:25:13 +0000

Well i believe it doesnt hurt but may be it gives u a very less amount of benefit..

By: UK Webmaster Forum

UK Webmaster Forum — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:33:43 +0000

Sitewide links can’t HURT, rather they may not help much in some instances. I don’t place a lot of value on them to contribute to the increased chance of ranking improvements in the search engines.
A sitewide link will generally only produce the same results if there were on a couple of links and if there are on many different sites, all with the same or similar anchor text, then there might be filter that might get tripped.
So getting a minimal of it is the key, thanks for the post!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:27:39 +0000

Obviously his site is not ranked for the keyword “wordpress themes”, because he doesn’t use that keyword. Please check his site and the keywords he uses.

By: Google Success

Google Success — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:40:35 +0000

Hi Andrew, the sitewide backlinks for briangardners can improve his pagerank but still he is not ranking for his keyword in the title ‘wordpress themes’. It is easy to rank for a keyword in the domain which is unique like ‘brian gardner’

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:09:58 +0000

A rubbish theory. Google has not announced anywhere that they discard the site wide links. A good example is this guys site “http://www.briangardner.com/” 99% of the links are site wide links. Backlinks from his wordpress designs.