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Did I ruin my website with poor backlinking?

by Bobthemusclebuilder
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Hi everyone,

As you can see by my post count I am new here, and new to online marketing. About a month (or maybe more), I made a ONE comment on this website morequicheplease.com with my website name included in the comment.

I'm not sure what happened, but now all backlink checkers show that I have hundreds of links from this website. Google webmaster tools shows I have 91 backlinks from this website. Seeing as how morequicheplease.com is NOT a quality website, has my website been penalized? With only 143 total back links, this seems like a huge deal.

I also have 41 links from tumblr (I'm pretty sure I have more, not sure why only 41 show up), but building these backlinks seemed to have no effect on traffic, besides people clicking on the links from tumblr. I heard tumblr was a good place to create backlinks with a PR of 8.

My website is still only a few months old and the amount of traffic I get is laughable. My ranking for certain targeted keywords is also appalling. My website content is better than all the websites that rank before me (but my website might not be as pretty). Should I just start a new website?
#backlinking #poor #ruin #website
  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    When you do blog comment spamming, it is common to get a bunch of links from the same site. Your comment showed up in the "recent comments" widget the site has at the same time some of the crawlers crawled the site. That's all. So your link was on every page of the site. It will get bumped off. No big deal.

    Tumblr's homepage has a PR of 8. The pages you are building links on do not.
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    • Profile picture of the author Bobthemusclebuilder
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      When you do blog comment spamming, it is common to get a bunch of links from the same site. Your comment showed up in the "recent comments" widget the site has at the same time some of the crawlers crawled the site. That's all. So your link was on every page of the site. It will get bumped off. No big deal.

      Tumblr's homepage has a PR of 8. The pages you are building links on do not.
      Thanks for the info, glad I didn't shoot myself in the foot...

      However, can you please elaborate with tumblr? My 41 backlinks come from my own posts and other people reblogging. Are you saying that these backlinks do not count?
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
        Originally Posted by Bobthemusclebuilder View Post

        Thanks for the info, glad I didn't shoot myself in the foot...

        However, can you please elaborate with tumblr? My 41 backlinks come from my own posts and other people reblogging. Are you saying that these backlinks do not count?

        No. I'm saying it is PAGErank, not DOMAINrank. It really does not matter what the PR of the homepage is. It matters what the PR of the page your link is on is.

        PR flows through links.
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        • Profile picture of the author Bobthemusclebuilder
          Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

          No. I'm saying it is PAGErank, not DOMAINrank. It really does not matter what the PR of the homepage is. It matters what the PR of the page your link is on is.

          PR flows through links.
          So essentially, you are saying that although the PR of tumblr is 8, the PR of xxxxx.tumblr.com is what really matters? Well that's discouraging, no wonder why tumblr back linking is yielding no results...
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          • Profile picture of the author JohnnyPlan
            Originally Posted by Bobthemusclebuilder View Post

            So essentially, you are saying that although the PR of tumblr is 8, the PR of xxxxx.tumblr.com is what really matters? Well that's discouraging, no wonder why tumblr back linking is yielding no results...
            Think of it this way. Tumblr is the top level domain and you are given a subdomain on tumblr or as you said, xxxxx.tumblr.com. This site is brand new and distinct from the rest of tumblr. Now, what makes your backlinks on Tumblrs so good is when someone reblogs or shares what you have posted on your own Tumblr blog. There's a good chance that person has a more well established, higher page rank Tumblr blog. So it's not really the act of blogging on Tumblr that is good but getting shared and reblogged that will get you the high pr backlinks you are looking for. And, for that, just publish your best content, build your Tumblr reputation and interact with the Tumblr community.
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  • Profile picture of the author sconlinemarketing
    I agree with Mike, Don't worry about that one blog comment. It won't hurt your site. Just be sure to comment on quality sites going forward.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by sconlinemarketing View Post

      I agree with Mike, Don't worry about that one blog comment. It won't hurt your site. Just be sure to comment on quality sites going forward.
      No. I would not do blog commenting for SEO at all. Especially for a site you care about.

      For direct traffic, in some rare cases it can be useful.
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  • Profile picture of the author sconlinemarketing
    If you want to build backlinks you should set up your own PBN (Private blog network) Purchase 3 different hosting accounts and buy at least 5 private domain names and spread them out on your 3 hosting accounts. Then post quality content on them and link to your site.

    Then build tier 2 and tier 3 links. Tier 2 links to your PBN sites and tier 3 links to your tier 2 sites.

    Rinse and repeat until your ranking. Don't use all the same anchor text linking to your site. Mix up your keywords.

    Also link to authority sites as well like wiki.
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  • Profile picture of the author NWDIECASTING
    I am having trouble finding quality backlinks. Hope I did not mess up my backlinks either. Does social media backlinks help at all like Linked In?
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    • Profile picture of the author SEOWizard417
      Originally Posted by Bobthemusclebuilder View Post

      So essentially, you are saying that although the PR of tumblr is 8, the PR of xxxxx.tumblr.com is what really matters? Well that's discouraging, no wonder why tumblr back linking is yielding no results...
      Although tumble has a high PR and will pass some authority to its subdomains, the PR of the page is what matters. If you have good content, PBNs are the way to go. Building blog comment links won't get you very far. They can be good for adding some diversity to your link profile, but you definitely shouldn't be relying on it.

      Originally Posted by NWDIECASTING View Post

      I am having trouble finding quality backlinks. Hope I did not mess up my backlinks either. Does social media backlinks help at all like Linked In?
      Social media backlinks don't weigh heavily on search engine rankings yet, although it is a good to have them for building your brand and driving traffic. If you need quality links, build your own network or try guest posting to quality sites. If budget is a problem, go with building out some quality web 2.0s with some tiered linking.
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    • Profile picture of the author Helena14
      Originally Posted by NWDIECASTING View Post

      I am having trouble finding quality backlinks. Hope I did not mess up my backlinks either. Does social media backlinks help at all like Linked In?
      Social media helps in terms of boosting your social signal.
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
        Originally Posted by Helena14 View Post

        Social media helps in terms of boosting your social signal.
        And your social signals have nothing to do with SEO.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    Originally Posted by Bobthemusclebuilder View Post

    Should I just start a new website?
    With all of your misinformation, how about taking one year to actually learn some things?

    I think we need a sticky up above. So many people are into it, so why not have a sticky
    thread up above that just says, "Just start a new website."

    How about working hard? Learning, patience, marketing, webmastering, etc.

    "I started a website yesterday. It's now penalized. Should I just start a new website?"

    No real business person would ever think like that. There are not many people who
    have real businesses here it seems.

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    If you were disappointed in your results today, lower your standards tomorrow.

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  • Profile picture of the author Tim P
    The best way now is keep build quality links. Don't worry that much about those old backlinks.
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