What happens with short term links? If you get a link from a reputable site for a couple of weeks and then they drop the link, will google 'read' anything into it - like perhaps the site thought better of linking to you and dropped you therefore 'you're bad' rather than 'you're good'? Lisa
No this is not like what you are thinking Google won't consider your site a bad one but it will just drop your sites relevance.
No penalty at all. ------------------------------------------- List of Free/Paid/Niche Directories launched in August
Links are being added and removed all of the time, this is a dynamic real time process and is standard practice G know all about these patterns and accept as normal
If you are continually getting new links and old links to you are being dropped frequently, then it may impact on your serps due to unstable linking. Ideally, any good inbound links will be permanent, as length of a link can become a part of the overall pr of a site. Although some degree of short-term fluctations will have been factored in (servers going down, sites changing servers, some paid links etc etc etc), so some fluctuations shouldn't harm you. The main problem is that link algorithms change frequently and as such the only thing you can do is try and secure more organic links into your site that should hopefully influence serps or pr (whichever you are trying to satisfy).
It all depends on whether link age is considered. The search engines have access to this information (i.e. how old a link is), so why not use it? So given that search engines can detect temporary links, how do they interpret them? The link was bought or your site is rubbish, those are possible reasons for a temporray link. I doubt that you'd be penalised, I think potential benefit would be witheld.