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Anyone have any idea about the value of links that are from articles on an irrelevant subject? For example, if my article is about cars, and my anchor link text is about flowers, will Google devalue that link? Or does it count just the same as if my article was about flowers as well as my link?[/quote]


r3bb, 

I have no idea regarding an answer to your question.
But I am sure some SEO Gu-Ru will be along shortly and give you
a good answer.

All I do know is that C4L is set up to give the writes  a way for writers
to get articles on line which plug their own sites. but also designed
for the advertisers to place their links on these articles, thereby
getting hits and google rankings for their sites in the process.

I fell that sometime in the future, Jon will offer on topic articles written
by advertiser choice writer's (through C4L)but until that happens, a lot
of the articles written thru C4L will be basically the writers choice, with
the advertisers link being added near the author bio.

Joyce/i]

Nobody knows for sure!

My belief is that they're probably less valuable than links from on-topic pages.

Even if that's not the case now (and I think it is) - then it's quite likely to be true in the future:  If Google haven't implemented it yet, then it's the sort of thing that they will implement as soon as they can get it to work.  After all, common-sense dictates that if you weight on-topic links more heavily than off-topic ones, it's likely to improve search results.

Having said all that - I still think off-topic links do have some value (it's too hard for a machine to work out what's on-topic and what's off-topic to disregard "off-topic" links altogether.

So my system is:  Get on-topic links wherever possible - but it's ok to get some off-topic links too.