: Does the placement of a back-link really affect is value? This is a question that's been going through my mind a lot recently, and nobody online has given me a solid answer. Does the placement

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Links in footers, headers, and sidebars can be considered spammy if not done appropriately


True 100%

But think twice before NOT post a link. Beside being on top of organic result, your business need customers and usually mouth to mouth is a good source of customers. And a link "anywhere" can bring you a customer not via search result but directly via the "backlink". For example: you have a stationary/bookshop. If you place many backlink in many small blog or school news blog of your area maybe can "eventually" be consider spammy but this does not exclude that many people/students could click that link and see what you can offer to them... so when you build your back link don't think only about SERP, think about if it will be useful for who will see these links to click it and automatically you will find yourself building a NON spammy backlinks network.

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