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Small website has 1.7m 'backlinks'

by starengine
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I know someone local to me who runs a website.
They make about £100k in sales a month.

I checked out their website. It's got 1.7m 'backlinks'.
OMG!
I thought if a website has too many spam backlinks... it was a negative and would get them put into a sandbox and left there for 18 months or something?

But then I thought... surely Google won't put a website in a sandbox simply for having spammy backlinks? Because someone could pay $5 to get a million backlinks from fiverr? So for a cheap price, you could knock out your competitiors. (Just made that price up to illustrate my point.)

Just wondering.
#17m #backlinks #small #website
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  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    Not sure what your question is - and I think your numbers are off.

    That number would put the site above google, facebook, youtube, etc....from numbers I've seen on stat sites.
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    Several years ago, Google changed its algorithm so that they just ignore spammy or manipulative backlinks now. The reason they made that change is precisely what you intimated - that competitors could bomb a site with spammy links and take it down under their old system of penalizing manipulative links.

    Chances are, even if a site had 1 million backlinks, a very small percentage of them would be legitimate. This is why simply looking at any site's backlink count tells you nothing at all.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jamell
    CIt's better to remove , fix broken links and spamm links . The algorithm is always changing so at some point google will catch up and penalize the website .
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    If i were you I'd focus on growing your website the right way and avoid ways to grow your backlink count that aren't natural. Ignore what someone else is doing, and do yourself a favor by building up your own site with ways that are proven to work.
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