Does Google Penalize for too many inbound links

[ralf_w]

Hi All,

I wanted to ask your opinions about this Googles penalty for having build too

many inbound links in a short period of time

webmasterworld.com/google/3084915.htm

I need to do link building for a client and plan to simply build 10-20 links in a

span of 3-6 months. Is that okay?

I plan to get links from good sources NOT blogs or forums. My client sells

specialty electronics so i will only go to electronics review sites.

At any rate, this is a small site with currently 50 inbound links. will 20

additional links from quality websites that write orginal electronics reviews be

a problem you think, in a 3-6 month window?

[Duncan Pollock]

I don't think the number or pace of additional links is going to be of any great concern.
Far more important is the relevance of the new links. They need to be as close as possible to the website's main content and probably the more they add to the visitor's knowledge of the product and its use/application the better.
Most of all, the value of links if they're reciprocal ones is almost certainly going to be discounted.

Duncan

[incrediblehelp]

I don't think the number or pace of additional links is going to be of any great concern.

I agree Duncan, just focus on relevancy and quality when aquiring links.

[mpilatow]

I agree with everyone here. 10-20 links over that time frame is really not a lot anyway.

[Fort Worth Realtor]

Hey does any one know if RSS feed that get sent out from our real estate blog get us backlnks.

[incrediblehelp]

Hey does any one know if RSS feed that get sent out from our real estate blog get us backlnks.

Not sure if anyone would know that but you. I am sure if people are subscribed to your feed and like what they are reading they are apt to add a back link to your website or posts.

To directly correlate that back link to the fact they have subscribed to your feed may be impossible.

[brian.mark]

The only way it could directly add links is if someone uses an RSS to HTML script and puts your feed into their page. Otherwise, it's just for users.

Brian.

[bj]

I usually advise my clients to make no more than 20-30 directory submissions a week, so I doubt that the amount you're talking about will have an adverse affect. But it won't have much of a positive affect either.

[stuart888]

No problem at all. Actually, why would even 10-20 new IBLs a week be a problem. It should not. A good web site that has quality information, will just naturally get 10-20 IBLs a week. The key is to put up some really good and valueable information. Other websites will link to it each and everyday.

Good luck, Stuart

[ddwebguru]

I need to do link building for a client and plan to simply build 10-20 links in a

span of 3-6 months. Is that okay?



3-6 months is not ok, and how can you sure you must get same links in same time span?
and you did not specify what type of links - one way or reciprocal? - if it is one way then it is from directory or article directory? so you have to submit more and more in article dir or other dir for get back links.

[TrafficProducer]

Too many, just how many are too many.

It has been said that Google will Penalize sites which add too many links at once.

Especially if these links have been paid for.

A more natural approach is said to be better, add a link wait, add a couple more links wait…

Basic rule is Quality, (content), not Quantity

[SemAdvance]

First we need to clear some misconceptions.

Google does not penalize. What they do is filter. Penalties are strong and used for deliberate spamming.

Google works on an algorithm of mathematical equations.

As such everything related to a websites category has been counted and formulated into an equation based on averages.

So for example if 1000 websites in your category acquired 20 links per month for a year then this is the baseline measurement that Google would use to measure new websites against. (read build trust)

If you build a new site in the niche and acquired 100 links per month, then this will send a signal to the search engine algorithm that a large spike has occurred, and then the response to deal with the unnatural link building, is a filter will be applied to lower the scoring and overall ranking of the website.

You can look at the competitors domain registration date, along with Yahoo link count, and then dividing the number of links by months in existence to decipher some averages.

Most is best luck guestimation from there.

Peace

[alatxtc]

I very recently got a little carried away with my articles and directory submissions for my site and dropped a few slots in rankings. I was having some fun with a new directory submission software package I got. I strongly believe that I set off some type of Google filter.

Does anyone have any idea how long this affect will last?

[Gracia]

As far as I know for every topic there's a weekly or monthly limit of inbound links, ans excessive link-building is penalized, because it's not natural.

[kauzy]

If you get a bluk IBL's in one day.. say... 500 IBL's then google will watch u. Other is if u get 500 IBL's from irrelevant site, say from sites like viagra pills, etc. and you site is on flowers, then, those 500 IBL's will NOT BE COUNTED. That is you will NOT BE PENALISED. BUT u will not get a credit.

[martty]

Hi All,

I wanted to ask your opinions about this Googles penalty for having build too

many inbound links in a short period of time

webmasterworld.com/google/3084915.htm

Another one of those silly WMW conspiracies. If there was a penalty for that I would be working on getting too many links too quickly for my compeitors .... duh?

[martty]

If you get a bluk IBL's in one day.. say... 500 IBL's then google will watch u. Other is if u get 500 IBL's from irrelevant site, say from sites like viagra pills, etc. and you site is on flowers, then, those 500 IBL's will NOT BE COUNTED. That is you will NOT BE PENALISED. BUT u will not get a credit.How do you know that to be the case? I don't think you have any idea if that is the case or not.

[martty]

As far as I know for every topic there's a weekly or monthly limit of inbound links, ans excessive link-building is penalized, because it's not natural.How do you know that to be the case? I don't think you have any idea if that is the case or not. I think its rubbish.

There is some really bad comments/advice going in this thread.

[kevE]

I’ve been trying to find answers in various threads to the sudden and dramatic drop in our SERP for the most popular key phrases in our industry. It occurs to me that the problem could be related. We recently agreed to reciprocally link all of our dynamic pages to a relevant site in a different geographical location and I now wonder if this could trigger a filter. If it has does anyone know the best way to deal with it?

[martty]

Why would reciprocal links get a penalty for?

You may not get as much or any credit for them compared to the past. If you previously gained a positive benefit from them, you may not be getting that benefit from reciprocals anymore - that is NOT a penalty and your rankings will drop as reciprocals are not a valued as they once were.

[kevE]

You may not get as much or any credit for them compared to the past. If you previously gained a positive benefit from them, you may not be getting that benefit from reciprocals anymore - that is NOT a penalty and your rankings will drop as reciprocals are not a valued as they once were.

So what you're saying martty is that if I get a large percentage of links from one site it will water down the effect of IBLs overall?

[idansh]

I did it on one of my website 6 months ago with no imppact what so ever

[amar]

Building 10-20 links in 3 months wont effect.