Comments on: How many links is too many

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:09:23 +0000

I know this is an old post but honestly, the “how many links is too many” debate is total BS.

“On the other hand if I went out and bought 10,000 links to a new site then it is likely to take 18 months to 2 years even to rank for its own name.”

If the above paragraph was actually true, anyone could do an aggressive xRumer campaign and get any new promising competitor’s site banned in the SERPS quickly.

By: DigitalExtremeMediaGroup

DigitalExtremeMediaGroup — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:11:36 +0000

Great article. I was wondering If my site was building to many links to fast. I guess not camparied to you great results. Thanks Again.
William

By: Laura Godfrey

Laura Godfrey — Wed, 06 May 2009 08:14:37 +0000

If you use natural links, then you will receive a lot of traffic and therefore will not be penalised by Google. You just need to make sure everything you link relates to what you are linking to. Submitting your website to directories is also an important factor of maximising the traffic to your site. The problem is overkill; knowing when to stop. If you use too many links, then this could be considered as ‘spamming’. You need to plan your links thoroughly and base them on competitiveness.

Great article!

By: Englischlehrer

Englischlehrer — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:37:40 +0000

I agree about the submitting to directories and I sometimes wonder how much attention google really pays to links. I have managed to get excellent ranking with just one link on some keywords though this does depend on how well the competition has optimised their site. Does someone know if its possible to ge banned if you have too many links from just one site or does google just ignore these?

By: Patrick Altoft

Patrick Altoft — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:12:31 +0000

I would steer well clear of directory submissions. Maybe submit to about ten paid ones such as Yahoo and Business.com

By: Martial

Martial — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:13:17 +0000

What about directory submissions. Free directories of about 8000 sites are available – so is this fine?

By: Patrick Altoft

Patrick Altoft — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:33:44 +0000

Google analytics shows a fair amount of traffic from search. At present most is from social media sites which tends to drown everything else out.

By: Mikael

Mikael — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:09:54 +0000

As Carl mentioned you would still have all of those links (I’m impressed) and because they are natural you will get traffic from them. Do you do analysis on what percentage of your traffic that originates from search engines and what comes from links? It would be interesting to know.

By: Khalid Hajsaleh

Khalid Hajsaleh — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:15:21 +0000

I see the question about how the speed of acquiring links coming up on forums again and again. I think people invest too much time worrying about the speed as opposed to figuring out a way to build links naturally. Like you said, if it is happening naturally, then there is nothing to worry about. SE algorithms are advanced enough to figure out if the new acquired links are natural or not.

By: Neil Thomas

Neil Thomas — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:48:11 +0000

I know link building can be an important tool in the seo tool box, They have to be very careful as well only to link in a related way. Natural links are good but still you have to make sure the content is related to each other.