(Entry was posted by David Rosam on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 01/29/2016).

Google: Links In Footers Or Sitewides Are Not Given That Much Weight.

Links in footers or sitewides are not given much weight, according to John Mueller.

"Does it matter if the main content area contains lots of links to external domains and few links to other pages on the same domain? Does it degrade the quality of that page?

So I think there are two aspects there, on the one hand this is the area of the page where you have your primary content, the content that this page is actually about, not the menu, the sidebar, the footer, the header..."

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David Rosam: Links in footers or sitewides are not given much weight, according to John Mueller.

"Does it matter if the main content area contains lots of links to external domains and few links to other pages on the same domain? Does it degrade the quality of that page?

So I think there are two aspects there, on the one hand this is the area of the page where you have your primary content, the content that this page is actually about, not the menu, the sidebar, the footer, the header..."

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Jim Munro: From the expert panel in this week's SEO Questions hangout on air on 00:55:28 into the YouTube video: https://dumbseoquestions.com/q/google_links_in_footers_or_sitewides_are_not_given_that_much_weight +David Rosam

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