hello, many people speaking about the bad effects of irrelevant garbage links. i think if it is harmful so anyone can destroy his competitors easily specially that crappy links are free and automated and very easy in a week you can sandbox all your competitors . i am a beginner, am i wrong??
No, you're not wrong. You've nailed it. There's a lot of newbie-myths out there and irrelevant links being harmful to your search listings is one of them. Yes, you can indeed get sandboxed if you build A LOT (and I mean it, A LOT) irrelevant links in a short period of time but getting sandboxed is not the end of the world - if you just keep building quality backlinks you'll be out in no time. Google will de-index you only if they're VERY confident that you're doing the link spamming yourself - such as if you tend to link to your site from sites that are on the same IP, do link exchanges etc.
You are right its a myth, the same as a lot of other linkbuilding stuff is. I have learnt an awful lot about what works in linkbuilding recently.
Google only very rarely penalized people for buying links. Instead they focus on those that sell unrelated, low quality links.
thanks bryanon, and thank you all for the great knowledge exchange here. i am a beginner but i really learned allot from you guys. ok if mass link building can hurt you even minimally as you said bryanon it will be very easy to any seo to hurt the first 10 websites in his niche and get ranked in their places (i tried a Chinese web site that really can really build you a 3500 garbage links in 20 min and the links will appear in less than 3 weeks and it is free also ). so i still don't believe that garbage links can even cause minimal harm or every body would build good links for his website and garbage links to his competitors. again i am a beginner and if you have a previous experience please share it and i will be grateful, thanks again