Will too many links from one site do me harm?

scrapcar · Share | #1 (**permalink**) 05-14-2012, 04:41 AM

Just wanted to run this by you all, i listed my business with http://www.city-listings.co.uk and have seen in webmaster tools that there are 3911 links coming from them, will this do me more harm than good?
as i can easily remove my listing,

altyfc · #2 (**permalink**) 05-14-2012, 05:23 AM

Who knows?

Even if it doesn't today, a Google algo change might mean that it does. I would look to get more links from more other places.

mohsin51 · #3 (**permalink**) 05-14-2012, 05:33 AM

I think it is harmful and you should remove your link from here because in this way you can are representing your backlinks as spamming.

photoshop updates · #4 (**permalink**) 05-14-2012, 05:48 AM

no no it is not a harmful bec if you are getting links from that site and also other site this is good ....but also google see that how are you getting links like spamming ...your nt then why are you werried abt it

Turkey Property · #5 (**permalink**) 05-14-2012, 06:40 AM

Something I am investigating at the moment is that I have 1,297,033 links from one site (and 50,661 from another).

scrapcar · #6 (**permalink**) 05-14-2012, 06:57 AM

My 3000 odd seems not a lot now.

**snakeair** · #7 (**permalink**) 05-14-2012, 07:00 AM

For the past 3 weeks i've been trying to get a forum owner to remove my link from there forum's footer. I'm getting bad links to my blog and it's 246,412 links.

Seems the forum owner either blocked my email address or doesn't care that i asked nicely to remove my links and i just might write a review about the forum on my blog. (Although, it wouldn't be a nice one)

Eh, going to try to send another friendly email. This forum has a bunch of spammer and low quality content on it.

Turkey Property · #8 (**permalink**) 05-14-2012, 07:35 AM

I just noticed that that this portal has 1,990,000 pages indexed so my site is on most of them! Further investigation by random searches throughout the site confirmed that a few sites (mine included) are indeed on every page I looked at, regardless of which location was specified. So I deleted my url from my profile and my backlink to them and have looked again and it now seems that my links on that site have gone.
But for the site with 50,661 I'm stuck. Although it shows up in searches I can't open it at the moment.

shailender · #9 (**permalink**) 05-15-2012, 05:05 AM

I think Google only concerned about reducing webspam, low quality websites. And if you're getting your quality links from one site and through ethical way then you don't need to worry.

Turkey Property · #10 (**permalink**) 05-15-2012, 05:31 AM

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Originally Posted by shailender

I think Google only concerned about reducing webspam, low quality websites. And if you're getting your quality links from one site and through ethical way then you don't need to worry.

Unfortunately I do need to worry

Google uses machines which are set to recognise patterns. They do not actually know how the links were got but based on those patterns they draw certain conclusions.
Even if it wasn't a machine, I'm sure a human would think it more than a little odd that one site would give that many links to another, these aren't what you could call quality links, they are just text links and they are all the same. The whole problem of how Google may now be looking at backlinks is what there is so much discussion about, and I don't think it is enough to take it that because I know I didn't do anything wrong to get these links, Google is going to know that.
Let's face it, it's much easier for them to slap me for it and leave me to sort it out than it is for them to investigate it.

stephengfm · #11 (**permalink**) 05-15-2012, 05:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Turkey Property

Unfortunately I do need to worry

Google uses machines which are set to recognise patterns. They do not actually know how the links were got but based on those patterns they draw certain conclusions.
Even if it wasn't a machine, I'm sure a human would think it more than a little odd that one site would give that many links to another, these aren't what you could call quality links, they are just text links and they are all the same. The whole problem of how Google may now be looking at backlinks is what there is so much discussion about, and I don't think it is enough to take it that because I know I didn't do anything wrong to get these links, Google is going to know that.
Let's face it, it's much easier for them to slap me for it and leave me to sort it out than it is for them to investigate it.

Why not ZERO-link the offending website?

ZERO-link being defined as make it pass ZERO-link juice - and refuse to crawl that website also.

Turkey Property · #12 (**permalink**) 05-15-2012, 05:44 AM

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Originally Posted by stephengfm

Why not ZERO-link the offending website?

ZERO-link being defined as make it pass ZERO-link juice - and refuse to crawl that website also.

I've not heard of ZERO-link and a search didn't show me anything relevant to this problem. Could you explain what it is please?

stephengfm · #13 (**permalink**) 05-15-2012, 05:52 AM

It's a proposal for Google's issues. That's all. it is.

I just propose that Google should make poor websites uncrawlable and therefore pass zero links and zero juice.

Turkey Property · #14 (**permalink**) 05-15-2012, 06:01 AM

Oh right, sorry, I thought it was something you'd seen that was already in existence

Yes, it would be good if webmaster tools had an option where we could choose which links should not be associated with our site, but there aren't any signs of that happening.
Even though they aren't nofollow, I don't think these links of mine are passing any link juice or I'd have a very high PR.

Turkey Property · #15 (**permalink**) 05-15-2012, 06:05 AM

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Originally Posted by altyfc

Who knows?
Even if it doesn't today, a Google algo change might mean that it does. I would look to get more links from more other places.

The theory as I understand it is that as long as there are more "good" links than "bad", then the "bad" shouldn't hurt. I have many other links but I don't think I could get 1.3 million more to offset these!

Northern Leasing · #16 (**permalink**) 05-15-2012, 10:14 PM

When You get too many back link from one website but google count it only one back link. but for traffic it is still working. and not harmful but these link not fulfill backlink acceptation.

mariyajames · #17 (**permalink**) 05-15-2012, 11:50 PM

Hi,

If you have quality links of different IPs, good PR and relevant sites, then you don't need to be worried because backlinks are important but must be quality because if Google find you as spammer then it could harmful for your website.

virtueinfo11 · #18 (**permalink**) 05-16-2012, 04:22 AM

are you talking about forum signature link?

Quote:

Originally Posted by snakeair

For the past 3 weeks i've been trying to get a forum owner to remove my link from there forum's footer. I'm getting bad links to my blog and it's 246,412 links.

Seems the forum owner either blocked my email address or doesn't care that i asked nicely to remove my links and i just might write a review about the forum on my blog. (Although, it wouldn't be a nice one)

Eh, going to try to send another friendly email. This forum has a bunch of spammer and low quality content on it.

codefish · #19 (**permalink**) 05-16-2012, 06:13 AM

No need to worry about many links from bad sites. Google will just ignore them and not hurt your site. If this wasn't the case, then I could create some spamming site and place all the concurent websites links everywhere so that Google punishes them

webwiseforum · #20 (**permalink**) 05-16-2012, 07:39 AM

I don't think it will necessarily hurt your site.

It's about link diversity.

If all the links to your site come from that one page, then it's useless.

If you have say 200 links from really high PR pages with decent anchor text you will still get a decent ranking despite your bazillion crappy links.

I personally wouldn't worry about it. I would just focus on getting a few high quality backlinks to balance out all the crap.