{"id":67,"date":"2009-03-04T12:53:34","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T17:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slxls.com\/blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2010-03-01T10:10:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T15:10:10","slug":"footer-links-overrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/footer-links-overrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Footer Links Overrated?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Footer links can be seen to be not very beneficial or useful for the following reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Footer links are likely devalued by search engines<\/li>\n<li>Footer links get low CTR<\/li>\n<li>Footer links are usually never the first link on the webpage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There has been mounting evidence that search engines, like Google and Yahoo are starting to devalue links that are included on the footer of websites.\u00c2\u00a0 Many times these links and there <a href=\"http:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/24\/importance-of-anchor-text\/\">anchor text keywords<\/a> are not relevant to the content on the webpage, so these links loose some link juice for seo right there.\u00c2\u00a0 Additionally, footer links are the last ones seen on the webpage by search engines and users; since they are the last links on the webpage, they are devalued even more.\u00c2\u00a0 Since users see these links last because they are the least visible, they are unlikely to click on them and generate traffic to those webpages.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead of adding links to the footer of your websites, consider placing them elsewhere on the page, so that they are more usable for visitors and valued more by search engines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Footer links can be seen to be not very beneficial or useful for the following reasons: Footer links are likely devalued by search engines Footer links get low CTR Footer links are usually never the first link on the webpage There has been mounting evidence that search engines, like Google and Yahoo are starting to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,56,25],"tags":[105],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-search-engines","category-seo-search-engine-optimization","tag-footer-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}