Does Google apply a SERP penalization for a website that has too many inbound links coming from comments on blogs? I've read that it might... I've a PR5 travel related website that is 14 months old, with over 300 unique high quality pages, and over 2000 inbound links (according to Google webmaster tools) - about 70% of which are from do follow blogs or forums I would guess. All pages are indexed, but google traffic is just 10 hits a day - way below what it should be - MSN and Yahoo traffic are considerably higher. Traffic from Google image search is about 500 a day though. It is obvious to me that some kind of penalty has been applied in the SERPS. Might such a penalty be for blog spamming?
when did this happen? One of my site has the same problem, it started about two days ago. Anyone knows what we can do to get the serp back?
If theysuspect that all those links are Paid link . they will penalize your site if the links are natural i dont think that it will be a problem
Where abouts is the site ranking on Google for your top keywords? You might have ended up in Google's blog search engine instead, but this only happened to one of my sites when it was new and had mostly "nofollow" links pointing to it. It sounds kind of odd that most of your search traffic comes from Yahoo and MSN...are you using anchor text that is extremely competitive? Are you getting all 2,000 links from a half dozen domains? Hard to say what is causing it
prompt responses... nice one guys. I haven't bought any links, and don't sell any links either. So penalization can't be for that reason. Inbound links come from probably about 400 different domain names, rather than just a few. Admitedly, the homepage is targeting a rather competive keyword (*** travel guide), but there's numerous subpages that should be ranking well, but aren't - websites linking to my website are ranking higher eg. I type into google " mydomainname + something pretty unique to my website's Title tags " and blogs will appear, where I've added my link. All the signs are typical of the Google "Sandbox", but it's been 14 months now..... Ideas? It's a penalty, but why...? I can PM the url to anyone that might want to take a greater look.
For very competetive keywords, it takes longer to get out of the sandbox, even up to two years. So that might be your problem. But with Google, it's hard to know anything for sure.
If you have too many links from a common source then you may suffer penalties, however personally I consider this unlikely. Certain sites attract a higher level of links from the likes of blogs naturally, so an algorithmic penalty would be hard to engineer accurately in this sense. It's hard to say for certain without knowing more detail about your site, but unless you have a ridiculous amount of blog orientated links then I'd be surprised if this were a significant issue.
Hmm, I doubt they'll penalize such stuff. How about all those sites that get on Digg etc. People are bound to blog about them.
I guess that some of the blog links have been devalued. It's a good idea to balance your link profile and not overly rely on one kind of link.
avoid by post on blog network, special same post to 100s of them. for other paid link, how google know
the common theory is that google won´t penalize you, but it will discount the links, so if you have 2000 links from forums and blogs maybe google has discounted 1500 of them, so in the end you are getting link juice for 500, and then you are not getting in the top 10 for your main keywords, in the end google is sending you few visitors, try getting links from other sites, on theme and with good pr, maybe that will help you in 2 ways, 1st the most obvious (you will get link juice) and second it could get google to stop discounting the other 1500....
"Google Penalize for too many inbound links" Google will never penalize for anything that is happening outside your site. That is, for example, incase google penalize a site for getting too many back links from blogs or getting too many links in quick time, then people will start to pay others to build thousands of back links for their competitors in order to get them penalized. The worst that can happen is that, google will ignore all those back links.
At last someone smart. If Google penalize too many blogs links or any kind of links then I'll destroy and vaporize my competitors with $100.
Yah, Google cant Penalize you it will be very stupid for them, but on the other hand if you website is from Link Farms then Correct me im wrong its a very bad thing.