Only 8 weeks ago I had 0 links, today I've got 4000...some programs say I've got as many as 8000 last week I only had 2000, to be honest I don't know where they have all come from recently, 2000 links just appeared over a week or so. I haven't done any link building just writing content. Has anyone had any bad experiences with this sort of thing? Thanx
That would seem a bit quick, depends where they are coming from, go check your google/webmasters for the backlinks. You might find most of them are from the same site (sitewide linking). Google might believe you are purchasing directory submission, if it builds superfast, and lose trust, even sometimes sandbox or blacklist you. Check your pagerank, indexing, etc. If your writing quality content and people are linking to it, you should be happy you done a good job, specially if it's from different sites. If you still have a good pagerank or it's increased it's a good thing.
I would say if you are getting more than 1000 links per day it might be cause for worry. But 8000 over a period of 8 weeks sounds okay to me. There are programs available like XRumer which blast your url across thousands of websites on the web. May be somebody has tried your url on it. Just to be on the safe side, check your pagerank regularly and indexed pages and keyword positions regularly.
Thanks, I got my blog in Technorati and its got a rank of about 130, which is good considering they rank on link popularity. My sites index page is sandboxed for my targeted audience, its so frustrating as all I get are spam bots reading my blog and dumping comments everywhere. Thanks for the info anyway. I think if Google had a problem and blocked it with it then I would probably write and complain as it couldn't be helped. My pagerank is 0, don't know about that, whether they have penalised my site, my blog posts seem to do quite well though and rank nicely... What about Yahoo, has anyone had any major shifts in their links or indexed pages?
I'd say it all depend on the quality of the links. If you are getting links from very irrevelant low PR sites then google will simply ignore your links or it won't have much impact on your rankings and will not penalise you. Google might penalise your site if it has got unnatural link building. However my experience tells me you should do fine.