Hi, Been told that if i generate to many backlinks to my site in a short ammount of time i run the risk of being banned by google. How many links should i aim to build per month without beeing peanalised?
Nobody knows what the maxium number of links you can obtain each month! If we all knew that it would make life alot easier. You should build up your links naturally and gradually. Maybe comment on a few blogs each day and submit a couple of articles a week etc...
Make as many backlinks as fast as you can. Your competition is not slowing down. But many backlinks will not be worth much. I have a PR4 site with less than 5 backlinks. I would worry about quality and authority of backlinks, as well as my domain. Stephen C
If you have a piece of content that goes viral, you could genuinely get thousands of links a day. What the algorithm will recognise, is that they have a natural links profile - they'll come from different types of sources, and not all have anchor text. So, if you're getting a mix of links from different types of sites, you can get hundreds without it being a problem. If they all come from one type of site, and all have the same anchor text, it is likely that they will be devalued, or not counted. To be banned, you'd really have to using something like xrumer to spam like a viagra site.
Whoever told you that is talking nonsense. If that could happen, then i would get a whole lot of backlinks to my competitors site to get them banned!
You won't get banned if you are building backlinks the LEGIT way. Number of links per day or per month doesn't matter. If someone reports you as spammed, you MIGHT get banned. If you use BH techniques for onpage optimization you WILL get banned.
I think varies site to site. 1000+ citations/day for CNN.com is nothing strange while 500+ citation/day for a just launched canned website is.
Do you know that for sure or are you making it up? It would be easy for any new site to go viral and gets 1000's of new links in a day or two - this happens all the time. Do you want to try and explain why Google does not ban them? How is the searcher served by Google banning these sites?
To many variables. Depends on the age of your website, authority of your website, how you obtain the backlinks and more.
I can give you exact figures or tell you if Google will ban you for certain, but I would say start off slowly and increase the links as time goes on. Then offcourse you might want to do a certain amount a day. Ive done it this way and no problems so far. But make sure the links are placed on relavant sites or else they are of no use.
Looks like a lot of mixed opinions here. I think the fact is that we do need to build links and yes there are some things that will raise flags with google. However, if anybody know the exact metrics that Google used, they would not be sharing them, they would be banking off of this knowledge instead. My 2 cents goes like this, consistency matters! Don't try to drop a hundred links one day and then none for a month, this looks fishy. I would go for quality anchor text links on authority sites and small blogs, a good mixture of media and linking is a natural way to build links and it seems from my experience Google takes note of this.
Come on now. I have rested on my laurels quite often. Sometimes I do go for weeks without backlinks to certain sites. That whole statement is fishy. Speed whether slow or fast, has nothing to do with google. Stephen C
According to this video by a Google Employee, backlinks cannot hurt a site ranking: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-interview-with-googles-maile-ohye
Google will not ban you. They may temporarily put your website in the sandbox... But eventually they will release it and your SERP will most likely shoot up.