Links in Behind a Tab in Body vs Footer

[AU-SEO]

Though I would ask the community this as it relates to positioning of external links on page vs. code and body vs footer.

Working with a strategic partner for some data sharing arrangements and the question exists whether followed links in the template footer to our partners website provide better value vs. Body Links with context behind a CSS Tab (All code for Tabbed content is resolved on the same page)?  Yes there are links coming back from the partner site as well.

[KaneJamison]

I would rather have the body link behind the CSS tab, assuming that the code for the tabs is all HTML+CSS and javascript is only used to move the tabs, not to load the content or anything like that.

[AU-SEO]

Yes all the code is HTML and CSS JS does not obfuscate any content.

[TampaSEO]

Hi Phil,

Just to be clear -- are you asking whether links in the website body are more valuable than links in the footer?

If so, I recommend that you watch what Matt Cutts (head of Google's web spam team) has to say about the matter via the link below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0fgh5RIHdE

He doesn't come out and explicitly say "yes", but it seems like if you had to pick one or the other, I'd put the link in the body of the page.

watch?v=D0fgh5RIHdE