If you find an already published old article and agree that a link would be embedded in it, what will come of it?

Question

Search Engine Optimization

Will the option when a new article is written somewhere and immediately upon publication it contains a crowd marketing link - will it have negative differences in comparison with the option when a crowd marketing link is placed in an old article that has been published for a long time and is known to the search engine?

Answer 1

what will come of it?

There are several options:

1. The acceptor page will increase positions for promoted queries, in the case of high quality indicators of the donor page / site, the same subject, competent anchor, dofollow link, the presence of users following the link and a good PF on the acceptor page.
   
2. The acceptor page will slightly/significantly lower positions for promoted queries, in the case of the opposite indicators listed in the 1st option.
   

Answer 2

Yes, if there is no traffic on it, nothing will really work

Answer 3

Crowd needs traffic, so it doesn’t matter when an article is published, if you even leave a comment under an article that is still being read every day, then you will get some kind of traffic.
If the question is about the influence of a link from an article on SEO indicators, then it depends on the coincidence of the subject of the site with the article, the subject of the article itself, and other indicators of the donor. If you want to place a link to an old article for the sake of link weight: agree that, in addition to the link, a couple of paragraphs of new text are added to the article for context around the link. And for reindexing, you need to refer to this article from somewhere else, otherwise you will wait weeks or months if the site where you are located is not updated.