Sitewide links
I have been playing around on the forums lately and I notice a lot of people have been asking about links and how people get so many or they think its going to be a lot of money to have so many links. The thing is generally when you see someone with 12k links or whatever it probably is not accurate more then 3/4 of them are probably not even unique.
When you see a site that has that many links its probably because of site wide links. When someone is given a site wide link on a website that has over 500 pages generally it will read as 500 links or less. Which your not being credited for every link what so ever. The search engines take each link from another website and then they start breaking it down for each link, so for example you have 200 links coming from another site whether its to different pages, or the same page all them links will be broken down, and then the total value will be added up, but if you only have one link coming from that site all the value will come from that one link, so it stays the same whether its sitewide, or one unique link.
This is exactly why unique links are so great to have 1 way links from unique sites are the best. So when you think about getting links get links from different websites that offer unique valuable content, so you have more credit to your website. I figured I’d clear this up because I see people getting confused about this all the time, and wondering why a site reads over 1 million links or something its because of site wide links thats it, give it a try go get s site wide link from a blog and watch your back links pop off like crazy if it comes from a large blog site it will.