Need assistance with website placement

[promodirect]

Hi,

If a website xyz.com is placed under the top right navigation of a blog abc.com which are closely relevant to each other, will it do any harm to the website in Google search?
Now since the website is placed under right navigation, it is visible on every page of the blog, does it matter even though they are closely relevant?

Note: The other external links that are on the blog are also relevant to each other.

Thank You,
Faiz

[TomRayner]

Hey there

You will probably be interested in watching this very recent video by Matt Cutts, which talks about this very issue.  Watch the video here.

If not overdone, it shouldn't be a problem.  And the placement of the link on the page shouldn't matter either.  I might be a bit wary of having it on every single page (if you have hundreds or thousands of pages), but for top navigation pages I think it would be OK.

Hope this helps.

[julianhearn]

It sounds like a blogroll link, so it shouldn't harm the sites.

But if the area on the page is titled: sponsored, advertising, etc, google will know the link is paid for and if it's not nofollowed it could be a problem.

Is the link paid for? If yes, be careful. Also review the other links around it, if it's surrounded by other external links that aren't relevant be careful.

[promodirect]

Hi Tom,

I appreciate your answer.

As you said you would wary of having the website appear on every single page of the blog. However, the right navigation of most of the blogs are repetitive on every internal pages. Therefore, we can't have a website placed under right navigation of some blog and limit the pages it would appear on.

I wonder, I have known some reputed blogs who have external links (Those external links have a good reputation too.) placed under right navigation which recur on every page of their blog, thus appearing on hundreds and thousands of their pages.

Thank You,

Susan Smith

[julianhearn]

You make it appear on just one page, it just requires some coding.

[promodirect]

Thanks for your answer.

Yes, its possible when I am the owner of the blog.

But having my website placed on some other blogs blogroll which is recurring shouldn't harm my website until the following points that you have addressed.

"But if the area on the page is titled: sponsored, advertising, etc, google will know the link is paid for and if it's not nofollowed it could be a problem.

Is the link paid for? If yes, be careful. Also review the other links around it, if it's surrounded by other external links that aren't relevant be careful."

Thank you, you addressed some valuable points.

Regards,

Susan Smith