Has anyone got any info about how, if at all, Google reacts to a sudden jump in the number of backlinks? Although it may not penalise a site, would it feed in the link juice/ PR more slowly depending on the rate at which links are added?
It depends on the number of factors... like: - links to the particular page by the same anchor text - sudden jump of back links to the new site etc. Hope this will help you...
If your site is relatively new and you add too many backlinks at once google will penalize you. If your site is older it will not be a problem as long as you're building high quality links.
I think Google reacts to big jump in links. I read of a SEO company that got 12000 links for client and Google hit them in SERPS out of top 50 for competitive keywords
If you were google, wouldnt you react to abrupt changes in backlink? What do you think? Yes it does react, and reacts quite drastically.
Possibly I would react, but I might also think - who got the links - was it the siteowner or a malicious competitor?
"Although it may not penalise a site, would it feed in the link juice/ PR more slowly depending on the rate at which links are added?" Yeah, getting too many backlinks can't penalize any site. If it was true then people will start to get thousands of backlinks for their competitors. The worst that can happen is that, Google will not count these links.
Why take unnecessary risks by getting in tons of links all at once? You'll get better results by building links at a "natural" pace. Its easier too...
You'd have to really go for it though to be penalized by Google for creating too many backlinks too quickly, whereas Yahoo and Live are a lot more sensitive to this.
Make sure the links are relevant to your site..and definitely dont come from FFA sites. Wont be much of a problem
As far as those are quality links, any number is fine and will help improve your SERP. If you're spamming your site will be penalized eventually.
Can you tell a real apple from the one made of wax? The same thing applies to Google: Natural links are good and tasty, the backlinks made of wax stink and are easily spotted by Google I advise you drop this idea, nothing is too easy in this world, hard or smart work pays well, this idea was smart 10 years ago when G was young and dum )))
Brian65, regarding sudden jump of backlinks. IMO, a sudden jump in backlinks, in of itself, does not result in a 'penalty'. There are many factors to consider, not limited to: 1. Do all or a large percentage of the backlinks come from the same ip, the same c block, or the same geographical location. 2. do a large percentage come from the same group of sites 3. do a large percentage come from the same domain. 4. do the whois data from the domains linking to you have any patterns. getting sitewide or near sitewide links may not penalize you, but may result in the loss of the site linking to you ability to pass PR vote/juice if you will. If you embark on a large link campaign, wherein you do not link back to the network(s), and you continue this campaign ad infinitum, it is unlikely you are going to be penalized or that it will harm you, if each domain linking to you is of a different IP, different geographic location, different whois data, etc. Having said all this......... You may be going in the wrong direction. It is felt that quality can beat quantity in the google 'game'. It is entirely possible that 100 sites doing a review about your site, its products, and deep linking to the interior pages, with a degree of varying inbound linktext to the targeted pages, may prove superior, especially in the long haul, with your google rankings, than say 1000 low quality 'links'. I am not just talking about the pagerank of the pages themselves, nor the total link count on said pages (as you probably know, the amount of PR vote strength going to your site is proportional to the total link count on said page, in addition to the absolute PR value). It may be in your best interest to sustain an permanent, ongoing link campaign wherein you do not directly exchange links (ie 3way linking pattern, no michael campbell mininet stuff), but instead get reviews or post articles about the content of your interior pages. Never look back, and never stop. IMO, that is a better use of your time and resources.