Hey, we all know how important backlinks are and if you don't you heard it here. We all have also heard that if you build to many backlinks to fast to your website that you will get the "Google slap". I have read in other forum that this is not true, the way they put it is if this was the case you could just build mass links to your competitors site and knock them out of the search engine. The best thread I read was started by a guy who developed a software that gave him thousands of backlinks a week and his site was not only going strong but climbing the search engine constantly. I do know for a fact that Google ignores spam links from watching an interview of a Google employee. With that said I would like to hear your thoughts and experience on this. Does anyone have 100% proof that their site was slapped or banned do to this? I used the site in my signature to do a couple of experiments and I cant manage to get a site slapped or banned. I used two new sites not even indexed yet, with one I submitted an article linking to the site and let it build out thousands of links over a month and a half. With the other I bought a link package that put my link on around 7,000 domains at once (I figure if I'm going to get banned this will do it) and to my amazement in two days the site was indexed and #1 in Google out of 30,000,000 results. The first site is still going strong and climbing everyday. It seems to me that building to many backlinks to fast is indeed a myth. Share your experiences and maybe we can all learn something along the way.
I used a tool that built me 50 backlinks in one day, as opposed to the 20 I usually build myself. Since doing this, my PR has dropped from 3 to 2.
I have never had any of my sites penalized but I know people who have. I was always careful. Google will know the difference if you are spamming or not. That example about spamming a competitors site does not always hold up. If you are no where to be seen in google then who is going to consider you a competitor? Basically if you are already in the top 10 then you can be aggressive.
Google will not even notice that, seriously. They are after the big fish spammers. Companies who launch a site with major ad campaigns get massive backlinks to their site fast and Google eats it up. Google will never punish you for marketing your site. PR is overrated.
To know the truth, I think it is better to read the Google Webmaster Guidelines. Here Google says webmasters should not use software application to submit links, or they are considered as spammed. Some people do and still are not penalized; I think it is because their sites are not visble enough to be "caught" by Google. So, as always, good contents and good links make a good combination for going to the top.
I also initially thought like too many backlinks build too soon will cause ranking to go down. But so far I have not seen proof of that. I have put up to 120 links per day. Also got positive results out of it. Good to see this discussion on a question which was lingering in my mind for quite a long time. Thanks.
I think as long as the links look natural - they're all from different places then you'll be fine. Add as many links as you can.
I would like to recommend easysubmits.com as a very good semi-automatic link submitter where you can add links as many as possible to hundreds of directories. Very quick and cannot be seen as spamming. Anyone knows other goodies to share?
Yes, you are right, but you have to maintain it, it shouldn't be like that you took 100 links today and then you after one month you took 100 links, you have to build link steadily. You should also consider including nofollow links as well so that they would be counted as natural links.
Building too many backlinks is not bad. But building too many backlinks fast using software is bad. So be careful. Building backlinks manually is time consuming & takes lot of time. So it is better.
What has increase in backlinks got to do with PR drop, forget about PR now, it is a myth and Google itself has stopped believing in it (else why will it not be updated in about 7 months) Quite true, if you can quality links then i assume it is not bad, but if you acquire quite a large number of spam link in short period of time, then you will not be seen in very good picture by Google, may not get a slap, because slap is the ultimate penalty that google gives since it is like imprisonment of a website, things like you might lose rankings, your content might not get frequently crawled, i have seen these all happening with my sites when i put link building on overdrive. But one factor that i have noticed is you can up your ante with link building if your content building is also in overdrive, say you are adding 5-10 blogposts a day then you can go around building links to those pages without much problem from google, as that also looks quite natural, new pages getting new links, right.
It depends on the quality of links. Google blog post get more than 100 links on same day it get posted, but it doesn't get banned. Links must look natural and from quality websites
Link building is relative to the number of links you currently have....so based on a percentage. If you have a website with 100k backlinks and build 10k in a week, that only a 10% increase and probably wont throw up any red flags. but.... If you have a website with 30 backlinks and build 100 in a week...thats more than a 200% increase. Might throw up a red flag.... Plus it comes down tho the type of links also. I had a client who was an Infiniti dealer. They had about 50 inlinks. Unfortunately I was a bit to aggressive with my linkbuilding and got a nice penalty that lasted for 2 months! And the links were nothing blackhat at all.....just built them too fast. So the moral is slow and steady wins the race...have a normal link building campaign.