I think there is. If your site is brand new, and you are involved in a link exchange, or using some software to create tens or hundreds of backlinks every day... Google will see that something is fishy with your site, and will ban it.
Yes, especially with new sites, if you are building too many too quickly, it is not going to be beneficial in the long run. Slow and steady high quality links will win the race.
I disagree. You MAY not benefit from excessive backlinks but I don't think Google will penalise you. IF they did then we'd all be trying to knock our competitors from the 1st page of Google by building 1000's of backlinks for their sites. It's not logical.
It really is not the number of backlinks but the speed (time frame) that they are built. Going from 0 links to 1,000 overnight is a bad thing. Normal steady progression is best.
I should think there is, however no one know for sure what search engines consider to be 'excessive' link building. if you want to play it safe though, don't build links faster than is humanly possible without using software or spamming tools. Not unless you're running something along the lines of a news site, which are likely expected to get large influxes of links. -
i never use bots or any other illegal ways to get back links. In my network i own 200 websites/blogs and in each one of them i have links to each other 199 sites/blogs at the bottom of each one. Is this a legitimate way to get back links?
People say this, but I've never seen it happen. On the contrary, the opposite seems to happen. For example, what happened when the first website reported on the Haiti earthquake (or any other event of significance)? THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of links immediately popped up linking to the website that reported the news. Did Google see these thousands of links and say "uh oh, excessive backlinking. Let's ban this website."? I think not. People talk of sandboxing all the time. I've yet to have it happen to me.
A newly built website who gets many backlinks in just a short period of time can be called as excessive backlinks. And also when you get lots of unrelated links.
Yes there it is wherein you made your backlinks not in a natural way. For example your site is new and then you tend to do some unethical method of making thousands of backlinks for your site, well that is illegal and your site will no longer exist with the search engines if your site caught doing that kind of unethical method because it is impossible for a new site to have thousands of backlinks in just one day.
Come on guys, think about this ! If Google DID punish unethical backlinking then what's to stop one of your competitors identifying and selecting YOUR website and then start an agressive backlink campaign for YOUR keywords and YOUR Url ??? If we follow your argument then that means YOUR site would be penalised because your competitors backlinked the hell out of your site. REMEMBER: When you build backlinks there is rarely any verification process-I can build a backlink for someone else's site if I wished-there's nothing stopping me.
I suggest that, if you have more back links in an overnight then that might be a bad thing in the eyes of Google, only if you have used any kind of software to increase the back links, but Google takes a minimum of 3 months to display your back links. Build genuine back links that would definitely work and do great wonders.