Google Non-Natural Backlink Building

Here Karan is talking about "over time"... If you get 500 links this month and nothing next month, that is unnatural and will trigger a red flag...

Google has a pretty good read now on links that "everybody" can get such as from forums and blog posts, versus links that are placed on authority sites on a limited basis.

I'd say that google doesn't care. You can build as much as one million backlinks in one day and not worry about it.

Sure it will take time to show up in the top 10. But building a million backlinks in a day is not going to get you banned or even cause any trouble to your site.

Google appreciates you to build links to your site. It wants to find your site. And the more sites that link to your site, the easier for google to rank your content.

What google recommends is content syndication instead of traditional text link backlinks.

Text links backlinks are very much fake. Whereas the natural backlinks from your article are normal.

Let's say your article gets published on a high profile article directory like EZA. And your article gets picked up by publishers. Let's say about 10,000 publishes republish your article on their blog or website.

And you get 10k backlinks. Will google regard it as spam? the answer is no.

If they did, Google'd go officially out of business.

Social bookmarking is very much effective. Most sites only allow one bookmark per url. So it is obvious that some user bookmarked the page... Even if you did, it's not gonna appear as you did.

Same IP links don't count that much. Yep, that's kinda true. But who would be having 100s of sites on their own IP and interlinking them? That kind of strategy is completely stupid and tiresome.

But if you do something like article submissions then it will work. Or forum posts with backlinks. All of it will work.

Google doesn't trust authority sites that much either. If it did, they'd again go out of business.

Your backlink building does not affect your ranking. It affects your PR.

And your PR affects your ranking to a significant extent.

That is.. if your site has a high PR and you have an article published it gets top 10 position instantaneously. But if it does not have a high PR, then you will have to build some backlinks to that article or web page.

Given that all of us are aware of SEO and everyone tries to build backlinks to their pages to rank for a keyword, Google has accepted that fact as that's how it is.

Google loves content that gets syndicated. However, there will be only one site that will rank in the search engine because of duplicate content(for user's readability).

Wouldn't you get annoyed if you keep going to a different site everytime but got to read the same content over and over again?

To improve quality for it's users, google only allows one site to rank. If the site gets taken down, usally the site with the next best PR or popularlity or backlinks with the same content will rank.

Oh god, I just wrote an article...

That is so untrue I don't know where to start. Webmasters link to sites they like every day. Nothing fake about it. Bloggers link to bloggers every day. Nothing fake about it. Forum signature links and article resource box links are text links, nothing fake about them and the search engines seem to love them. Almost all links are text links.

Maybe you didn't mean what you actually said?

There was a good article someone wrote in the Warrior Room about link velocity, you should subscribe and check it out if you haven't. (I see you are a member, so you'll be able to see it)

1. You will need to be consistent with your link building and keep building links every day.
2. Vary your anchor text so that not all your links will be with the same anchor text.
3. Create links from no follow sites as having all your links from Do Follow sites will not look natural to Google.

Yes I agree...you can build as many links as you can but make it look natural and google would love it.

Google wants us to behave. So they tell us how big and bad they are and how they will slap your sites down for stepping out of line. The reality is that unless you do something incredibly stupid, or are very unlucky, if you do not utilise all the tools in the armoury then you are missing out.

The guy in front of you in the SERPs probably does not subscribe to "Google fear". The pictures from the wizard of oz tell you all you need to know about google's webspam team.

My analogy, is that in the Normandy campaign in WW2, every German tank was one of the feared Tiger tanks in the eyes of the untrained allied soldiers. This fear propagated until it was a serious issue, despite the fact that there were only about 100 tiger tanks in the whole of France.....

This is very helpful! Thanks for the posts. I'm trying to build optimize my site naturally without getting penalized. It's hard work!

None is getting any "natural" links today really. To come as close as natural as you can, you should have a lot of different methods. I use social bookmarking, article writing, forum posting, blog commenting, 3-way link exchange, setting up satellite sites.