Run of Site Links

[mj775]

I recently got a link from a relevant site but it ended up being a run of site link. The site has over 3,000 pages that now link to my site. Will my site get penalized for this?

[mjtaylor]

I have never heard of anyone being penalized for inbound links, site wide or otherwise. If one could lower the rank of a rival site by linking to  a competitor with the site wide links or  "bad neighborhood" links, well, we'd all be buying links to the other guy's site, wouldn't we?

Here's what SEOs seem to believe about site wide links; they aren't worth much, if any, more than a single link from a site. I am not quite sure that's true, but 1,000 links from 1,000 domains is certainly worth a great deal more than 1,000 links from a single domain.