Sidewide footer links to latest blog posts
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Dear Friends
I hope you can answer my questions. We are launching a new site and on the footer (sidewide) we list all new blog posts (limit 5 links - blog title), do you think we have any problems with that part of the website? I am concerned because all new blog post title will appear on all pages' footer and it will be marked as spammed. We just want visitors to be noticed about new blogs post on our site.
Thank you,Tran
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Hi Tran
I can't see this being a problem at all. The content will likely be too small to be seen as duplicate across all of the pages, plus it will be constantly refreshing, so the content will remain relatively new.
Furthermore, because the blog posts are hosted on the same root domain, it shouldn't be seen as spammy. If you were linking to 5 external sites over and over it could look a bit suspicious, but as its your own website it's no different from have a site navigation menu on the top or the side of your website.
In other words, I think this will be absolutely fine and would even be a good user experience, so go for it!
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I don't think this will give you any problems if all you're talking about are internal links with natural anchor text linking to proper article pages. It's a absolutely standard approach and an honest way to help your visitors find your latest content.
Where you run into problems is when you have site wide links on external sites, especially those with exact match anchor text. It's pretty obvious that these tend not to be earned based on value.
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