Hello SEOs and guys! I read a lot on the subject, and the most common opinion is that inbound links can never penalize the results on Google. Otherwise, there would be enough to place a link to competitors on a site in the sandbox to overtake the SERP. Now I am optimizing a site for a client, about hotels and holidays. The competition is known to be ruthless in this area! So sometimes I use methods not exactly "white hat", like buying links from high PR. That's the point: on some occasions I happened to notice a loss of positions, a few days after these links were published. I'd love to hear your sincere and honest opinion on this ;-) Thanks in advance!
Yes incoming links from other sites that have been penalize may result in lower SERP or being penalized yourself in extreme cases.
Yeah there's a solution, it's basically just being careful who you're building links with. Making sure the site's indexed is a good starting point.
If you have a good amount of quality backlinks, you shouldn't get penalized from a few negative ones. Otherwise everyone would be trying to get negative/bad links for their competitors to drop them from the search engines The only sites I've seen penalized from bad links are brand new sites with no other backlinks. A lot of our advertisers on our footer links have this same question (see my signature), so we've monitored this for a while with over 30 advertisers now.
I think Google need to alert you of "bad" incoming links via webmaster tools... And allow you to 'block' any negative juice..
Hey giano i just read(red) a post on similar topic, Please read it here at Pat Blog http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/backlinking-boo-boo/
I really don't worry about backlinks anymore unless I do it for promotional value. I just write more optimized articles and place them on my site and after the pages get indexed - I then place them on article directories and web 2.0 props.
It is time to stop being paranoia about link building, nothing happens, if you are already having good rankings for those heavy competition keywords then you are expected to build links in bulk and of high PR as others on the same results page might also be doing the same, so is google going to penalize all, set your own benchmarks on building links, if you are in SEO business then you might be alreay aware of when to go overboard with link etc.
Sometimes a large number of inbound links on the day or in one package can be penalized by Google, that is interpreted as a spam ... Experience tells me that it is under 100 links per day a safe zone ...
One thing I see that if your site is on Google first page then and competition is high then directory submission or article submission don't work, you have to take links from high pr sites and should be relevant sites!
Does Google penalize a brand new facebook fanpage with lots of recent purchased backlinks any differently than a regular website?