Penalty with excessive linking?

demiGod031 · 01-25-2007, 02:10 PM

Hi,

I have a friend specializing in reciprocal links. He had a large number of sites, his own in addition to his clients, maybe over a hundred in all, that went, overnight from the top of the Google rankings to way down. He claims that he does not know what he did wrong and that Google will not respond to his contacts.

I asked a friend about this and he thinks the problem is "excessive linking" though my friend says all of the links to the site are highly relevant. Does anybody know if there is a Google penalty for excessive linking?

Thanks...

Bestmiler · 01-25-2007, 04:28 PM

It's not a good idea to receive a large amount of links in a short period of time.

Sideways · 01-25-2007, 05:01 PM

Yes its been said {i have no proof} that Google will penalize you if you build/acquire links too fast.

hhheng · 01-25-2007, 08:48 PM

You shall check for something else, because you just have only hundreds of backlinks. Google will penalize those backlink boost from 100 to 10k like that, but will not penalize like yours. It's very easy to get 100 backlinks in one day, and if google bans that, then a lot websites will be disappeared.

Janet · 01-25-2007, 09:10 PM

I think they may penalize too many reciprocal links too fast even if they are on-topic. However, I don't think they can penalize to many one way links coming in too fast. If they could, I could easily shoot over 10,000 links to my competitor's site and have them penalized. Right?

parusa619 · 01-27-2007, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by demiGod031

Hi,

I have a friend specializing in reciprocal links. He had a large number of sites, his own in addition to his clients, maybe over a hundred in all, that went, overnight from the top of the Google rankings to way down. He claims that he does not know what he did wrong and that Google will not respond to his contacts.

I asked a friend about this and he thinks the problem is "excessive linking" though my friend says all of the links to the site are highly relevant. Does anybody know if there is a Google penalty for excessive linking?

Thanks...

You said that he specializes reciprocal links, right? First, lessen the use of reciprocal links because it might hurt your site.

Second, I think you're right, it is spamming, limit yourself to 35 to 50 backlinks per day.

charlesgan · 01-27-2007, 01:25 PM

in fact, i dont think excessively fast growing backlink will be penalise. This is for example, big site like youtube, myspace, etc etc, that the time they are launched, i does belief thier backlink grows in thousand a week/mth. when we accumulate these, we seeing off-course backlink very quickly. But, they not penalised. the fact is, backlinks alone, will not be penalise, this is unfair to those fast growing site.

freetraff · 01-27-2007, 01:28 PM

Here's the side proof from Google from Matt Cutts http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/scoble-visiting-the-plex

"We saw so many urls suddenly showing up ... that it triggered a flag in our system" and then they had to manually remove the flag - "We cleared that flag, and things look much better now"

If there are flags for doing that too quick, definitely there should be some reasonable limit.

Surely you cannot control the growth of backlinks. One good press release is apt to give you hundreds overnight. But if Google's team sees that backlinks are ok, they will remove the flag and everything should be fine.

P.S. If your friend is so good about link building, how he came up not to know about the speed of link building as a possible factor of lowering the effect from link building

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Forsh · 01-28-2007, 01:30 AM

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Originally Posted by parusa619

You said that he specializes reciprocal links, right? First, lessen the use of reciprocal links because it might hurt your site.

Second, I think you're right, it is spamming, limit yourself to 35 to 50 backlinks per day.

Eeep, how does one get 50 backlinks a day? I try for a few a week and that already feels like a full-time job.

Edit: I have no idea what that emoticon means, lmao.

seorender · 01-28-2007, 04:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Forsh

Eeep, how does one get 50 backlinks a day? I try for a few a week and that already feels like a full-time job.

yah! i agree with u too Forsh, how does one get 50 relevant theme based backlinks a day? we are also spending more than one week, and that is a full time job.

casperl · 01-28-2007, 08:53 AM

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I have a friend specializing in reciprocal links. He had a large number of sites, his own in addition to his clients, maybe over a hundred in all, that went, overnight from the top of the Google rankings to way down. He claims that he does not know what he did wrong and that Google will not respond to his contacts.

Did he link back his own sites to each other on the same Class-C IP?

Velocity · 01-28-2007, 08:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Janet

I think they may penalize too many reciprocal links too fast even if they are on-topic. However, I don't think they can penalize to many one way links coming in too fast. If they could, I could easily shoot over 10,000 links to my competitor's site and have them penalized. Right?

I completely agree with you. This is definitely due to reciprocal linking.

Bestmiler · 01-28-2007, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Forsh

Eeep, how does one get 50 backlinks a day? I try for a few a week and that already feels like a full-time job.

Edit: I have no idea what that emoticon means, lmao.

Submitting to a lot of directories.

DharmaConsulting · 01-28-2007, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Bestmiler

It's not a good idea to receive a large amount of links in a short period of time.

it should seem natural, like 100 links a week max

searchbliss · 01-28-2007, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by demiGod031

Hi,

I have a friend specializing in reciprocal links. He had a large number of sites, his own in addition to his clients, maybe over a hundred in all, that went, overnight from the top of the Google rankings to way down. He claims that he does not know what he did wrong and that Google will not respond to his contacts.

I asked a friend about this and he thinks the problem is "excessive linking" though my friend says all of the links to the site are highly relevant. Does anybody know if there is a Google penalty for excessive linking?

Thanks...

I think we need some more information to answer this accurately.

1. Are links on static sites, links farms, directories, etc?
2. How "old" or "new" is his site?
3. Are the links on "relevant" sites?
4. How where they aquired?

DharmaConsulting · 01-28-2007, 05:52 PM

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Originally Posted by searchbliss

I think we need some more information to answer this accurately.

1. Are links on static sites, links farms, directories, etc?
2. How "old" or "new" is his site?
3. Are the links on "relevant" sites?
4. How where they aquired?

yes these need to be answered b4 correct answer is given, but these are hard to give since most dont admit using link bots etc and after google has penalized them, its hard to see the backlinks since google took them down