Re:Ask HN: Tips on domain registration and website setup
by ryanwaggoner on Friday November 27, 2009 @10:57AM
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oogle is smart enough these days to tell an "artificial" link from a "natural" link. As a result links from the sidebars or blogrolls of other websites, link from signatures and most links from profiles are not decent links and will do very little to affect the rankings of your domain.
This makes no sense. As a blogger, a link in my sidebar on every page is far more valuable than a single link in the body of a post.
That is definitely one of the most interesting SEO analogies I've read yet.
I'll just add a little bit about what a decent link is: Google is smart enough these days to tell an "artificial" link from a "natural" link. As a result links from the sidebars or blogrolls of other websites, link from signatures and most links from profiles are not decent links and will do very little to affect the rankings of your domain.
However, one or two links in the body of a blog post or web article can be worth hundreds of blogroll links. Note however that the content of the blog post or article must be closely related to whatever the content of the website is.