Will THIS Effect My Seo and Sandbox me?

[ha_squared]

I have several sites that are ranking pretty well and I want to push some articles out and submit them to a couple hundred directories for a sale I'm promoting on the sites. I AM NOT doing this for seo, because it's duplicate content and eventually I will get slapped for that.

For the seo buffs out there, I'm wondering instead of putting a direct link to my site in the resource box, I want to make sure I get no backlink credit. If I put a tinyurl forward in the resource box, Google won't pick up on the real link will they? I'm doing this to promote a sale and not seo, so I don't want Google to slap me thinking I'm spamming links, when I'm just trying to drive traffic to my site.

Will Google see the real link although it's a forward and penalize me?

[ha_squared]

Anybody have any input?

[bgmacaw]

Where ever did you get the idea that any of the things you mentioned would be a problem? You need to stay away from the "cargo cult" SEO you've been reading.

[Joe118]

LOL @bgmacaw. And yes, google *will* follow through the redirect of tinyurl to your site, its as if the redirect and intermediat tinyurl weren't there at all.

Oh and why, pray, would creating a few hundred back links be a problem for your SEO?

[Chris Grable]

ha_squared,

The duplicate content issue is only an issue <grin> for content that is in multiple spots on your website.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/duplic...tent-question/

[davidrosa9]

I mean yea like they said whether it is a tuny url link or the regular link its still a link back to your site...

I would suggest you submit the articles over time and not all at once to be safe. If you already have good rankings and your site has been there for awhile you should have no problem.

They usually wonder why BRAND new sites get so many backlinks quick...

[GeorgR.]

Originally Posted by ha_squared

Google to slap me thinking I'm spamming links

I think it would be about time to make a sticky "SEO Myths and Fact" posting in the SEO forum.

The likelihood google "slapping" you with "bad" links is about ZERO. If it were the case people would "slap" their competitors left and right. Give me a competing site and Xrumer, and i would be able to slap that person's site off Google. <--- do you really think this is possible?

IF AT ALL...the "bad" links wont benefit you, but i just cant see at all they hurting a site.


To answer your question, yes, google WILL see the link, even if gets redirected or using a service like a URL shortener. You can easily check this running a tool like "XENU" which can crawl URLs of a site. I am pretty sure that Google does that too and "knows" where a link ultimately will resolve to. So..you can have 100 afflinks on your site and cloak them or redirect them...Google should still know you have 100 afflinks on your site

[bgmacaw]

Originally Posted by davidrosa9

They usually wonder why BRAND new sites get so many backlinks quick...

Not really. For example, There I Fixed It got over 100K links in 90 days and at 6 months they're closing in on 200K (not my site but a good example for those worrying about 'too many links'). Other sites have gotten links quickly due to viral linkbait campaigns and social media campaigns. Google understands this rapid link development pretty well these days although in the past it could cause some glitches.

This is somewhat niche dependent though. If a site in the "male enhancement", "weight loss" or other heavily spammed, highly commercial, niche got 100K links in 90 days you can bet the Google web spam team would give it a close look.

[fitz10]

You should be fine. This type of Google slap seems to be mostly for new sites or spammy sites.