Is there such a thing as building too many links?

Matt, Is there such thing as building to many links, if you're following Google's webmaster guidelines exactly? Too many where you would get banned, even if you're following the rules? Thanks, Mark

Mark Schneider, Denver, Colorado

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• google
• seo
• links

[iLovePalestineDotCom]

Sadly most natural link no longer work due to the overzealous addiction to the nofollow tag which was brought to combat comment span but is now abused by the majority of webmasters in order to sculpt and retain the PR Juice from leaking to external sites. Something has to be done soon to adjust this horrible side effect.

[xeniteorg]

You guys whining about your "natural linking" no longer working never understood "natural linking" in the first place.  The social media links you and your link-dropping zombies create are NOT natural links. Artificial links are a self-defeating proposition because you're drinking the foolish SEO Kool-aid that says you have to obtain as many links as you can in as many ways as you can.

Quit writing crap SEO content and write content people WANT to link to.

[VirtualAssistantv]

Google algorithm is really hard to calculate. But understanding deeply the guidelines and dedicated SEO is a major requirement to reach your goal.

[BlueBoden]

@iLovePalestineDotCom That's not entirely true, considering that most no-followed links are on forums and blogs. Only few web-masters actually use them for all outgoing links. Its unfortunate when they do, but thats their mistake. I wouldn't personally link to someone i knew had a policy of not having outgoing links.

Outgoing links will not harm a sites placement. The only reason why some would nofollow outgoing links, is to avoid losing pagerank.

[maryblue75]

hello, where can i send the question i have?

My question is, i have 87% search engine traffic on my site(Forum, online for 5 years), and i heard from someone here in Greece, that there is a danger when the percentage is that high. (that i am depending on what google will change with algorhythms). How much of that is true? (the percentage has always been high but it even got higher the last few years)

[TheJimgonzalez]

No follow links are good as well, all things be natural some will have no follow. I agreee get as many links as you can with good anchor text.

[iLovePalestineDotCom]

@susheel02 Yes, I know they follow it for their own benefit, in order to keep a complete inclusive index (even if link/site is delegated to the supplementary index) they just have to have it and know about it. *BUT* following the link and even indexing it gives YOU no extra weight (PR Juice) in their algorithmic calculations. Meaning you can have a 1000 nofollow links with no juice and your competitor has very few with Juice and they will rank better than you (if all other factors are equal).

[susheel02]

@iLovePalestineDotCom Hi! If you watch one of Matt's earlier videos, you'll see that Google no longer honors the 'no-follow' tag. They follow links with nofollow too.

[susheel02]

@iLovePalestineDotCom Hi! If you watch one of Matt's earlier videos, you'll see that Google no longer honors the 'no-follow' tag. They follow links with nofollow too

[TheWebpropaganda]

great organic way i.e Twitter, Facebook etc... erm...ever heard of sponsored links on those two social network?