Building new links to penalized pages will drop your rankings further

As you can see in my signature I provide SEO services and I was like many a huge fan of public blog networks like ALN, High PR society, Article Ranks, Unique Article Wizard and My Article Network, just to name a few...

Now after the huge deindexing of the blog networks, multiple clients have seen drops in rankings and my own sites as well, it sucks but it's the risk of getting fast results and we've almost all became victim of it in some way. A few weeks ago I took distance from all blog networks as it's only a matter of time to see the next deindexing as networks are rebuilding.

To make a long story short I have some interesting details to share, that I gathered cause I work on many sites and so see a lot of different things and start to notice certain trends so here a few examples:

EXAMPLE 1: Worked on a huge site with 1000's of indexed urls and we decided to target 30 url's. This site used ALN for 5 months and distributed 1000's of articles during that time before he contacted me. His drop in rankings stabilized and I started to build a wide variety of non blog network links with a large anchor variety as well. ONLY these 30 url's started to drop even further, while his other url rankings remained the same.

EXAMPLE 2: Worked on a site for a couple of months, few months ago the owner added a new url, most links that I builded before were pointing at his strong main url that had a wide diversity of lnks already. After the deindexing these rankings stayed the same. However his relative new innerpage url dropped back to page 4. We decided to add some really strong homepage links from sites with max 10 outbound links and real legit sites. This innerpage dropped to page 8. Again an example of a page that got many links from public blog networks and that dropped in rankings further after we start to build new strong links to it.

EXAMPLE 3: I got a few pages on my own site that are a few months old and I only used ALN and HighPRsociety on these innerpages. Obvious my rankings dropped from page 1 to page 2. Two weeks ago I started to build new non blog network links like bookmarks, web2.0's, forum posts, press releases and more but all in small portions with a good variety of anchor txt's. These pages have now dropped to page 5. At the same time my rootdomain also dropped, which has a huge variety of diverse links build in over a year. On this root url I hardly used any blog networks although the rankings did drop a bit, but I didnt build any links to it for 3 months cause I was busy with clients and kind of forgot about it. Anyway after building new linsk to the root the rankings climbed up again, but the same links to the inner url's caused a drop cause they only had blog network links before.

So what does this show you?




So my advice is to NOT build any new links to pages that are penalized. Give it a few months and start to rebuild links again but right now it's a very bad idea to build new links.

Ofcourse there will be people jumping in and saying you should only build quality links right now. Well as you can see in example 2, those very strong relevant homepage links moved the innerpage from page 4 to page 8, so long for the great high quality links.

Use this info as you like, I could write down another 7 examples that show the exact same as explained here but I think it's enough to prove my statement.