Link from archived article.

[knielsen]

A strong news site has an "archived.domainname" folder, where they have older articles listed. I can get a link on a page where there is a 4 year old article, which will be in this archived sub-domain. My questions:

1. Will Google view a link from a 4 year old article as less valuable. Will Google notice the article is 4 years old and find it odd why the page all of a sudden has a link to my site, and thus devalue such link

2. the sub-domain "archived" does that tell Google it is old and a link will be less valuable

thank you

[EvolveCreative]

Sorry, these questions are impossible to answer correctly. In my opinion though, Google will pass value through the link especially if it is a strong news site.

Usually I just ask myself:

Would I feel comfortable telling Google about this link at a later date?

If the answer is yes I go for it.