Someone said it was good....

[Datagg]

To add links at the bottom of pages for better seo

True? False?

I did this on my pages at http://www.girlfriendslingerie.com

Good idea, or not?

Opinions please.

[Blazingpie]

hmmmm... links at bottom of pages... as in a footer link? Well, it can help with SEO, but if its a sitewide then not really, Google devalues them...

[Paz]

Hi Both,

I think footer links can really help spiders navigate a site, as well as adding lots of anchor text with rich keyword content.

Yes Google devalues sidewide external links, but datagg meant his internal linking didn't he, or have I got that wrong?

Cheers,
Paz.

[BSolveIT]

Yeah - as Paz assumed, text links at the bottom of the page simply to help navigation and easy/fast spidering is a very good thing. Internal links being the key.

Looking at the site posted, thats what they've been used for - so thats fine.

I notice they merely duplicate whats on the left menu - but I don't see any problem with it anyway.

Point to note though:
It's most beneficial, generally speaking, where there's an absence of links to internal pages. It's not "required" where there's already a link to every page. That said, as is the case here, it likely helps to have the keywords in the text links and likely benefits the site as a whole.

:-)

[Datagg]

Thanks guys.....

YEah they are alomst the same as the left links//Some words i changed a bit to get a closer word to what the engines currently see as the more beneficial way of wording them..its not a complete list, (for the left nav is vast) but to my most popular pages and category sections.....

thanks for all the input though, i was concerned that i made a wrong move here.....

Bless all

Dan