Sitewide blog link and Article links
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Hi Guys I just wanted to give you all a heads up on something I adjusted recently that worked really well and wanted to ask for your own experiences on this.
1. We have a blog that adds regular content and within the blog we link from the keyword we are targeting. Standard stuff right !
We were struggling for movement on a keyword so I removed the links from the articles and added a link on the site wide blogroll.
The link on the blogroll included the keyword but was a longer descriptive link.
Low and behold we got a first page listing when the changed it.The change in ranking was made a few days later. I have always been given the impression that site wide isn't that great ? So explain this one .
Of course there are many other factors etc
What are your experiences and thoughts on what happened here ?
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Interesting stuff. You're right it is probably more down to the diversity factor.
Hope you keep your good positions
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yes point one could be the case on that particular page. I also feel adding to the diversity of incoming links has also helped this with the longer tail keyword.
Its has gone up to 3rd position today.
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That's interesting, so the new link was a longer link that included the target keywords?
As far as I am aware, each time you get a new link from the same site it's value is decreases - the first link is always the hardest to get. This was my understanding as to one of the reasons sitewide links become less valuable. A couple of things spring to mind:
1. By adding a sitewide link, you must have increased the amount of links from the site? There could have been a large increase in the amount of links - possibly enough to make a difference.
2. Is your sidebar coded so that it appears higher up the page than the content? It's been shown that more weight is given to links that are higher up the page. It could be that the link has been moved a lot higher up the page and given more weight due to this.
They would be a couple of things that spring to mind. I too would be interested in hearing about peoples experiences with sitewide links as I moved away from them a while back in favour of a few in content links from a site.
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