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Backlinking Limitations with EDU Blogs

by PhotogJohn
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I have some questions that I hope someone has some good answers for.

I recently picked up access to about a dozen EDU and GOV blogs of my own. I can post little articles with anchor text links any time I want.

My main concern is how many links can I create to my many sites that are on the same server/same IP.

I am building a few authority sites that will eventually have around 100+ article pages on it. I also have around 40 sniper sites that I want to promote.

Let's start by just talking about one blog. How much link building to sites on the same server would it take to get Google upset to the point where it devalues the links? Can I post articles with links to each of the article pages of the authority sites (one or two links per article of course)?

Ultimately, here's the issue. Will there be a problem with a couple hundred links (many withing the same domain) pointing to sites on the same server?

Then multiply that by 12. Would it be a problem to have the same articles on the other blogs doing the same thing?

If there's a limit, what do you think it should be?

Thanks for the help!

John
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  • Profile picture of the author bigcat1967
    John:

    I think when it comes to your backlinking campaign - you'll have to ask yourself - "Am I backlinking from relevant websites?". I know you have .gov/.edu sites where you can place your backlinks on - but are they relevant to your website they are linking too?

    Also - I think to much emphasis has been on off-site optimization. I'm thinking about 70% of SEO is really on-site. For an example, yesterday I wrote a 1,200 word article and stuck it on my website (it was an internal page)...then I extended my index page from 350 words to over 700 words. After that - I went to pingomatic dot com and pinged every site I could...telling everybody that I had new content. Google indexed it right away and I went up nine spots in the SERPs.

    That's great that you are building a site w/ 100+ articles on it...great first step. However, make sure is not content thin. Since the Panda rollout - Google is really looking for pages over 700 words instead of 350 words. That's why they started dumping hubs and lens deep in the SERPs because there wasn't that much content on it. Anybody can write a 500 word article. No longer is the case in Google Land.

    What I'm trying to say is concentrate more on your website. Make sure you have a lot of content on each page as well as it being optimized (pictures w/ alt attributes, no KW stuffing but just enough KWs to let Google know what your web pages are talking about, sitemap etc). Then concentrate on your backlinking campaign - just make sure they are from mostly relevant websites.
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    • Profile picture of the author PhotogJohn
      Originally Posted by bigcat1967 View Post

      John:

      I think when it comes to your backlinking campaign - you'll have to ask yourself - "Am I backlinking from relevant websites?". I know you have .gov/.edu sites where you can place your backlinks on - but are they relevant to your website they are linking too?

      Also - I think to much emphasis has been on off-site optimization. I'm thinking about 70% of SEO is really on-site. For an example, yesterday I wrote a 1,200 word article and stuck it on my website (it was an internal page)...then I extended my index page from 350 words to over 700 words. After that - I went to pingomatic dot com and pinged every site I could...telling everybody that I had new content. Google indexed it right away and I went up nine spots in the SERPs.

      That's great that you are building a site w/ 100+ articles on it...great first step. However, make sure is not content thin. Since the Panda rollout - Google is really looking for pages over 700 words instead of 350 words. That's why they started dumping hubs and lens deep in the SERPs because there wasn't that much content on it. Anybody can write a 500 word article. No longer is the case in Google Land.

      What I'm trying to say is concentrate more on your website. Make sure you have a lot of content on each page as well as it being optimized (pictures w/ alt attributes, no KW stuffing but just enough KWs to let Google know what your web pages are talking about, sitemap etc). Then concentrate on your backlinking campaign - just make sure they are from mostly relevant websites.
      Thanks, Cat! I do focus on on-site SEO. All of my articles are at least 500 words and around 2% for the keyword. There are plenty of other things I focus on as well.

      Are the blog sites going to be relevant to all of my sites? Of course not. I'm sure they would be more valuable if they were, but they will still hold value.

      I'm trying to figure out how much use can I get out of the blogs without having Google devalue the links due to over-saturation from links all from one IP to another.
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      • Profile picture of the author Ohioquotes
        I hadn't heard that about having a minimum of 700 words for your articles (I realize that is an estimate).

        My sites rank well but typically, my articles (on my website) are about 400-600 words. Might that hurt me in the long run?
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  • Profile picture of the author masterjani
    In My experience.Placing Links up to two will not hurt your site.Nor google deindex or devalue your links.

    Don't post spun content try to post unique content.And space out the article posting between one to two days in one blog.If you have many lets post your first article on first day then post your second article two days later.
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    • Profile picture of the author PhotogJohn
      Originally Posted by masterjani View Post

      In My experience.Placing Links up to two will not hurt your site.Nor google deindex or devalue your links.

      Don't post spun content try to post unique content.And space out the article posting between one to two days in one blog.If you have many lets post your first article on first day then post your second article two days later.
      Thanks for the advice. Yes, I was going to spread everything out over a long period of time.

      My plan is to put 2 links in each article. One to the domain index page, and then another to an article page within that domain.

      Here's the issue: Is it OK to post multiple articles over a day or two apart from each other to different articles within that domain? Also, what about the smaller sites that I would want to link to.....probably only once on each blog for each sniper site, but they do reside on the same server IP as the other domains.
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      • Profile picture of the author masterjani
        Originally Posted by PhotogJohn View Post

        Thanks for the advice. Yes, I was going to spread everything out over a long period of time.

        My plan is to put 2 links in each article. One to the domain index page, and then another to an article page within that domain.

        Here's the issue: Is it OK to post multiple articles over a day or two apart from each other to different articles within that domain? Also, what about the smaller sites that I would want to link to.....probably only once on each blog for each sniper site, but they do reside on the same server IP as the other domains.
        You can give link to another article with in that domain.More useful if the keyword is in the url of the inner page.

        Actually same server ip wont give you problem.Because you have own many blogs that must be having unique C-class ip.SO posting in one blog wont affect another.

        For sniper sites you can add one link in the article that works better.Another link you might use raw url.
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  • Profile picture of the author Teacherman
    I really hope your write on the 700 word boosts. I prefer to focus on writing high quality articles (for myself and others) so my services only become more valuable if this is true!
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