Comments on: Q and A: Are site wide footer links OK for SEO?

By: Mohamad

Mohamad — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:48:47 +0000

I would like to thank you all for these great comments, I’m now doing a research about websites wide footers and how this technique could affect SEO.

Thank you all !

By: SEO RANK SMART

SEO RANK SMART — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 06:51:23 +0000

Thanks for the professional seo suggestion, I will implement it in our all the websites and Blogs.

By: nottingham seo

nottingham seo — Mon, 02 May 2011 09:29:28 +0000

its true that a link is a link so the more links back to yout site the better. I’ve run tests and the higher up in the CODE they are the better. Google seems to like first few links more.

By: SEO Company in UK

SEO Company in UK — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:13:20 +0000

Andy Henderson,

I have noted too many people get confused by this point,

but what Matt Cutts said,

footer links do count and will still pass some link juice.

By: seo

seo — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 18:58:09 +0000

I usually use them.

According to Matt Cutts… footer links do count and will still pass some link juice.

By: Lisa Thomason

Lisa Thomason — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:39:14 +0000

We have tried links in the footer and without, and we agree that you will get more page views because of this. LT

By: Craig

Craig — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:50:12 +0000

Wow, Thanks this is just what I have been looking and I have bookmarked for great tips on SEO

By: Philip

Philip — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:58:57 +0000

Footer links can make it easier for people to use the site and they can be useful for SEO. As the home page is usually the easiest to rank, I like to make sure each of the linked pages links back to the home page. It’s important to remmeber that every link is taking some PR juice away from the home page and if it is an important landing page, which it usually is, it needs all the internal pr flowed back. If there are specific landing pages that are more important, they will be important for users and seo so link away to those.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:21:45 +0000

Thank You for all the interesting posts. They really helped me ! Between, you just got a new subscriber now!

By: Dave | SEO Nottingham

Dave | SEO Nottingham — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:53:36 +0000

“SEO is simply a matter of making it easy for the search engines to find”

Finally someone has hit this on the head, great comment Andy!

“On the other hand, websites without any real content or of little real benefit to users find that they have to resort to tricks and tactics”

Defo agree on this – I saw a beautiful website the other day which was just image based on the homepage and ranked very very well, then I saw a little link at the bottom of the page, clicked it and wow, 100′s of 1000′s of words, keyword stuffing etc etc – it just ruined my interpretation of the website, brand and company.