Impact of 500 million links from 1 site to mine?

[questionalDotCom]

Hey guys, using my connections on the web I am negotiating a deal to place a link in the footer of another website to my site. The website has approximately 500 million pages, thus I would then have 500 million pages linking to my site. Approximately 10% of the website is Page Rank 5 or above.

If this happens, what kind of impact could I see in search engine results? They are only outlinking to 1 other website.

Currently with about 5,000 links pointing to my site I get about 80 google hits a day.

I just want to know what I could possibly expect from this, I'm hoping a lot :)

[NetProGamer]

500 million??

Where did this number come from?

[questionalDotCom]

Well the website has been up since 1999 and literally has 500 million pages. A large portion are forum pages (200 million threads with multiple pages) and the rest are pages that are unique content. I've been friends with the owner for several years. They are ranked about 1800 in Alexa and are a great website.

[NetProGamer]

Ah, ok!

Can't really help you there mate, I was just curious but I would imagine you would certainly be at no.1 on Google.

You could probably only dominate one keyword though if it's the same link on every page.

Good luck!

[freelistfool]

I wouldn't ask for the footer link. It will look suspicious and probably raise a red flag at Google. Besides, the more links from one site the less Google takes them into account. So if I were you I'd ask for a link from the home page and call it good.

[questionalDotCom]

I see what your saying freelistfool, but they have one or two of the other websites their company produces in their foot as well, and they are doing quite well with PR 5 rank. I don't see how it would penalize me if another legit site wanted to link to me?

[Lori Wakin]

I see what your saying freelistfool, but they have one or two of the other websites their company produces in their foot as well, and they are doing quite well with PR 5 rank. I don't see how it would penalize me if another legit site wanted to link to me?

Hey man,
I think you have got the answer. :D

[mizaks]

Your PR will increase from the link but that's not going to help you much in SERPs. Work on SEO to increase your visibility on search engines.

[DJT123]

Footer link had been devalued by Google a long time ago. I can't see it hurting, but I don't think it will have the impact that you think it would. But I'd love to hear an update on how it worked out for you...

[snowbird]

Wow, the impact may be like Google bowling. I would not risk such a move. Focus on relevant links and don't chase the green fools gold aka PR.

Use freelistfool's advice. Otherwise you are playing with fire...

[kbeus21]

It will of course help, the only thing is it will not be the same has having 500 mil unique sites linking to you. Just curious what is the site that supposidly has 500 mil pages? thats more than the PR 9 and 10 sites out there seems a little unrealistic. Anyway having the same site link back to you won't increase your rankings nearly the same amount as having links from diffrent websites.

[SonnyCooL]

i have a brand new site with 5000 footer link, it make my site PR 2 ......
btw my site is nothing then wp install :) (the hello page still there) ...

[rameshramaiah]

If you have such million pages! why can't you try for another search engines!

[contentboss]

I'd like to see a site with half a billion pages indexed in google. I really would.

[BMXRider09]

500 million is way too many, Google would go into overdrive with Red flags and give you a big stamp on the head saying "Banned".

[joel@seobackup.com]

Go easy on that one mate. Sounds a bit risky. Could blow you out of the water - maybe opt for a homepage only link? - a bit safer :)

[SEOibiza]

we would happily supply a test site that already ranks OK to try it out on if you like? :)

[hmansfield]

I'd like to see a site with half a billion pages indexed in google. I really would.

Yeah, so would I.:rolleyes:

[seawind]

Becareful, maybe google will banned

[Destinyx3]

I have to agree with most of the posters: it seems very risky. Google may still ban you or raise a red flag over your head. I would accept this footer link, but only if you understand what Google may see it as.

[Joshdube]

I agree with freelistfool. Ask for the homepage, that way you will get a good link back without raising too many flags at google or any other search engine.

Josh

[PopaWoody]

You guys are a paranoid lot on here. Google will not penalize a site owner if someone else links to you. Unless they determine you paid for those links. I mean really what is to stop someone from linking to you without you even knowing about it? 500 Million pages is a hell of a lot, but it will not make your site the cats meow. It will NOT hurt you in any way. Especially an Alexa ranked 1800 or so forum. Just think about sites like the NY Times, or the LA times. We have been linked to from them. Or when CBS wrote about my job board, we picked up hundreds of affiliate CBS links. If I was not so anal about monitoring what is going on in Webmaster tools I would have never even known about it. Currently we have a little over 1800 back links showing in WM tools. We just jumped to a PR5 not bad for only 4 months old.

Think I am full of it go look at jobshouts dot com. BTW I have an insane amount of links from twitter (4000+). most of them are not even counted though.

[jasonvan]

Google will not penalize you for links people place on their site(s). Otherwise, you could post links for your competitors and get them penalized. If you link back, however, that is another story. This tells Google that you are in a "linking" relationship" with this site. If Google looks poorly on the site, then this "linking relationship" can hurt you. What you're saying, however, is that Google is giving this site a PR of 5. This is good.

Nevertheless, 500 million footer links from one site isn't worth much more than one index page link from the same site. Google views a link like a vote. You can't have one site vote for you 500 million times and expect that Google will even count more than the first few.

That's also why having thousands and thousand of links on the same forum site will not count as thousands and thousands of votes. They might all get indexed, but this does not all mean they will all help your PR.

My advice, though, is take the footer links and wait to see. It will definitely help, but who can say by how much.