Site Wide Links

[raph3988]

I have a link on pr 3 home page website placed in the side bar. It is on a WordPress website that spans a couple hundred pages and the side bar is on every page. The majority of the pages are not ranked or have any pr. Can this affect me negatively?

[DavidKonigsberg]

Without seeing the link i would say - i dont think any 1 sidebar  link  will have a negative effect on you if you have a normal looking backlink profile.

[DarinPirkey]

It's really going to depend on the relevancy of that link to the pages it shows up on.   There was a really good Whiteboard Friday a few months back about this from John Doherty.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/smarter-internal-linking-whiteboard-friday

[davidangotti]

Hi Raphael,

I agree with the previous assessment. However, I would add a couple of other things to keep in mind:

1. If you bought the link, it can definitely hurt you.
2. If the site is not indexed/is penalized/has a lot of other spammy stuff on it, it can hurt you.
3. If you own the other site and are trying to "game" the system it could hurt you.

I hope this helps and good luck to you!

[irvingw]

A link to YOUR site is on a sitewide blogroll?

Lose it. Especially if there is no PR on internal pages. Ask them to make the link homepage only so you're not creating a hundred low quality links with the same anchor text and shooting yourself in the foot.

[EGOL]

...so you're not creating a hundred low quality links with the same anchor text and shooting yourself in the foot....

Is your anchor text Texas hold 'em?