Hi, Does anyone know if Google penalises your ranking if your site (which previously had v few links) suddenly, and quickly acquires lots of new links?
From my experiences, it does. I always get sandboxed when I do a lot of backlinks dropping after buying the domain. What I do is make a new site, build a lot of content and buy few links on high PR sites. Then, after around 6-8 months, I begin the big link-dropping campaingn. I found out that it works better that way. Thanks, Steve
It is possible, but it's not so sure - because if it was this would be easy way do destroy competitors. As I noticed - it is easy to get a punishment from G. when number of links with same anchor text growing to quick. Diversity works better. The second thing is that there are some keywords where you can get filter easier than the others.
Adopting "Burst Link Strategy" (getting too many links too soon) does trigger Google which flags the website for possible punishment in sever cases.
If your site previously had very little in terms of incoming links then probably. But, the problem I have with the theory of the "Burst Link Strategy" is that there are too many variables to give a blank "yes, too many links too fast will get you slapped" answer. There are factors that need to be considered. Age of domain, how much content, organic growth? But in your instance I suspect you're gonna get slapped
Yep --I go along with you. Too many links too soon is not good --and it might attract the dreaded FLAG. I like what Prookle said--that strategy is the best. One must have patience. Google invented the so called SANDBOX specially to stop new websites with deep pockets to stop manipulating SERPs by way of buying too many links in a short period of time thus outstaging the more older and established sites --virtually overnight.
One thing you have to take into consideration is some sites get lots of backlinks very quickly naturally. For instance, political campaign sites around election time and mini sites made by mega companies.
yes i've seen it happen many times for my keywords, with the latest site they joined digitalpoint coop and gained about 50,000 links overnight and for a few days they were at #1 for the 5 most popular search terms in my niche and in the top 5 for everything else. About 4 days later they were completely gone from google, not even the homepage was indexed.
I wonder what would happen if a new site got hit with three huge diggs in the first two weeks of its existence. Would that site get penalized? Most of the links would be natural.
Yes, google naturally penalizes fast link acquisition.... so be careful... "Bear this in mind, fast link acquisition is a strong indicator of potential search engine spam. You must grow your links slowly to stay below and be careful who you exchange links with. Carry on with link exchanges but consider each site carefully and slow down in your gathering of them"