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Too many links at once penalty?

by leak
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Hello. First of all sorry for my english.

My question is...

I have some adult sites, all of them are around 1 year old. I have some backlinks to them from adult sites, but 1 of my site has more backlinks that others, and it has more traffic from google.
So
SITE A has 12k daily google traffic
SITE B has 4k daily
SITE C has 4k daily
SITE D has 4k daily
SITE E has 500 hits daily

I decided to add block of links to my other sites on site E, i put this block by php include on some pages of site E (total 1000 pages), but site E has 8'000 pages indexed, so its not sidewide block, but around 1000 pages.
And i see huge drops in my traffic in sites B, C, D. But site A remains the same, i think because it had more links before, it has more Trust Flow and Citiation Flow than other sites. Now sites B, C, D have only around 100-500 hits daily and all my positions drop from #1-3 to #50-100. I removed that block of links, but my positions dont goes back for 10 days.
All links were anchor links, not "domain.com" links.


Is it "too many links at once" penalty? How long my positions will go back?
Do you think that sitewide links(or many links from 1 domain) is bad for my sites?
#links #penalty
  • Profile picture of the author Ryan3
    Your linking your money sites together? Thats a no no
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    • Profile picture of the author leak
      Why not?

      You can see sitewide links at pornhub sites network, all sites have sitewide link block named "Our network" and its ok.

      I am not doing A<>B recip linking. But sometimes i do ABC or ABCD.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by Ryan3 View Post

      Your linking your money sites together? Thats a no no
      There is nothing wrong with linking money sites together when there is a legitimate reason.
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      • Profile picture of the author Ryan3
        Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

        There is nothing wrong with linking money sites together when there is a legitimate reason.
        That is true... I dont know what op's site look like but from the thought of spamming my site with thousands of links to my other site didnt seem like a good idea.
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  • Profile picture of the author wowleva
    You are doing a good thing, but you shouldn't spam links too much since google can target websites like that. Also 4 external links on every page is too much. Try doing 1-2 on main page and maximum of 3 on other pages.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    To the OP, you said you saw huge drops in traffic. Did you see drops in rankings? It might not be an SEO issue.

    Have you looked at analytics to see where the ranking drops occured? Is it definitely search traffic or is it another source?
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    • Profile picture of the author leak
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      To the OP, you said you saw huge drops in traffic. Did you see drops in rankings? It might not be an SEO issue.

      Have you looked at analytics to see where the ranking drops occured? Is it definitely search traffic or is it another source?
      Did you read the 1st post?

      I said that all my rankings drop from 1-3 to 50-100.
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
        Originally Posted by leak View Post

        Did you read the 1st post?

        I said that all my rankings drop from 1-3 to 50-100.
        Lol... Not enough coffee at that point this morning. I missed that line.

        For all 3 sites to drop at the same time, your new links are the most likely cause.

        Were there any other recent site changes?

        You said the sites did not return in the rankings after removing the links for 10 days. That is not really unusual. It is likely to take more than 10 days for Google to recrawl all those pages and take into account that those links are gone.
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  • Profile picture of the author AndresNWD
    You might have triggered an automatic Google penalty or a manual one, but I am not sure if adult industry is really watched by the webspam team.
    Have you checked google webmaster tools? Any notice?
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