Can too many low quality incoming links hurt you?

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by kianah, Feb 9, 2007.

  1. #1
    I've got many very good high pr related links pointing to my site.

    I've also got a lot of unrelated blog posts etc.

    Is there some type of ILQ ratio that i should maintain?

    Will getting too many blog posts, cheezy dir links etc take away from the benefit (water down) my high quiality linking?

    Thanks in advance!
     
    kianah, Feb 9, 2007 IP
  2. bling

    bling Peon

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    #2
    I do not think it will hurt you nor benifit you. So I would not worry about it, because there is really nothing you can do when you have low incoming links.
     
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  3. mtb167

    mtb167 Peon

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    #3
    Of SEO and Penalization, remember this - with a few exceptions - only on site factors can hurt you, as they are the only things you have control over.

    Think about it. If something that happens off of your site had an effect on your status with the SE's, your competitors could make those things happen and screw you over.

    If all it took was 90% crappy links to a site and they would get penalized, there would be people selling links on crappy networks so that you could sink your competitors.

    Wow. I wish that worked. Think of how much more you could monetize a scraper site... or network of scraper sites.
     
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  4. stock_post

    stock_post Prominent Member

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    #4
    If you get too many too quick - it may not be good.

    if you look at my site
    www.ayhu.com (has 41000 back links) got PR3

    www.directorygain.com (about 5000 last time when I checked)
    it got PR4

    DirectoryGain is a small site compared to Ayhu.com
    1/10 of traffic but that got PR4

    So, I am kind of thinking that I bought too many links too fast.

    Only time can tell.

    Thanks
     
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  5. QwkSand

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    I think as long as you've got high quality related links to balance those low quality links, then don't worry about it... :)
     
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  6. sonicdark

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    I agree with MTB, Google is not going to penalize you for adding your site to blog posts or PR0 directories for example. Like he said, if I could pay someone $10 to submit my competitors to cheesy sites and move them down in the rankings it would start an all out war with everyone doing that. Obviously focus on quality links, but don't worry about quantity links.
     
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  7. kianah

    kianah Peon

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    i thought it was quality AND quantity. A balance. So getting tons of blog posts will do a site no good, or barely any good?
     
    kianah, Feb 9, 2007 IP
  8. mtb167

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    The only reason that i can see to go after a large qauntity of links, regardless of quality, is to make your link profile look more natural.
     
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  9. devin

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    #9
    if you have low quality incoming links, there's nothing you can do.
    if you have low quality outbound links, there's everything you can do and you're screwed.
     
    devin, Feb 9, 2007 IP
  10. kianah

    kianah Peon

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    if i put nofollow tags on my crappy outgoing links will that solve that problem, or is it better to remove them completely? Will the nofollow tag sometimes be ignored?

    Also that will help PR being leaked from my pages right?

    I've noticed the top players in my main keywords (VERY comptitive - around 400 million results) none of them even have a resources aka link partners section - i wonder if i should do away with that all together, and maybe make some type of organized list of valuable high quality outgoing links (even though theyre not linking back)
     
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    My experience has been that it does impact Google search a bit, but doesn't seem to have any negative impact on Yahoo, MSN, Alta-Vista or other search engines. What I'm referring to is that links back to my site continue to climb for the other search engines but not for Google.
     
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  12. Yahoo!Guy

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    Not hort you, you can sure..
     
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  13. smartgirl

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    One-way links do not hurt your site,don't worry
     
    smartgirl, Mar 3, 2007 IP
  14. The_FoX

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    I guess instead of using nofollow tags on the crappy outgoing links(except on your blog posts/replies/comments) you should remove all the crappy links - those do you no good. But theres nothing you can do with hte ones that link to you. And Google doesn't bother either.
     
    The_FoX, Mar 5, 2007 IP
  15. Sunny side

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    Going back to the "too many too quick" issue - you just might get filtered on a specific keyword if you have it in the Titles of a large # of incoming links. But this is temporary...
     
    Sunny side, Mar 5, 2007 IP