How to Tackle site wide link?

[razasaeed]

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[AlanBleiweiss]

If I understand your situation, you're talking about providing links to some other site from every page on your site.  Is that correct?  If so, yes, that's potentially a serious SEO problem.  Too many links from one site to another can be considered link-stuffing.  It's very possible that it's seen as a paid link.

[MarkLoud]

Ahmad,

With Google now taking into account where page elements are located (they can identify header, footer nav segments etc) it is now much more worthwhile getting a link in the editorial content of a website rather than just a simple sitewide footer link.

The search engines are now beginning to look at sidewides as a potential spammy signal and therefore I would say if you can get links within an editorial piece (which will likely reside on only 1 or 2 pages max on a site) then this will pass the most link juice / value ultimately.

Having said that I don't think sitewide's are dead exactly as they can help bolster the foundations of a link profile, I just wouldn't build an entire link strategy from these types of links, or at least this is where your partners are coming from.