Is This Going To Hurt Me?

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I have a new site that I am just starting to build backlinks to. Blog commenting is one of the methods I am using. I made a comment on a page of one blog and it turned out they have a Recent Comment widget. I checked my backlinks through Yahoo Site Explorer and I know how 1500 backlinks all coming from this one site. I checked the site this morning and I have been pushed off the Recent Comment widget, so it will be a matter of time before all those backlinks dissapear. None of my other backlinks were picked up by Site Explorer yet. Am I destined for the Google sandbox, though?
#search engine optimization #hurt
  • Err... I wouldn't worry too much about this. It may stir things up a little in the short term (although I doubt it), but just keep on building links and you'll be forming the correct foundation.

    Keep it up...
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    • Thanks Derek. I will just keep at it!
  • It probably won't make a blind bit of difference whether you'd just gained or lost those 1500 backlinks, since they're all from the same site/domain and will only count for so much anyway.

    If a site's search-engine rankings could be so easily manipulated by mass-spamming backlinks to a single site, it'd be trivially easy to game the system. Therefore, if acquiring masses of backlinks from the same single site can only contribute so much to your rankings, so too must the effects on your rankings be limited, when you lose masses of backlinks from a single site.

    (That is, of course, unless your SEO competition was weak enough for your rankings to be completely reliant on backlinks from only a handful of sources - but this is rare.)

    Don't sweat it. This is quite a common occurence when blog commenting is concerned.
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    • Thanks Dire. Your logic makes sense. My main concern was the timing more than anything.
  • Not at all. This is completely natural and expected and nothing to get all Googlenoid about.
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    • Ha! Google is like Oz, isn't it?
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    Is This Going To Hurt Me?

    I have a new site that I am just starting to build backlinks to. Blog commenting is one of the methods I am using. I made a comment on a page of one blog and it turned out they have a Recent Comment widget. I checked my backlinks through Yahoo Site Explorer and I know how 1500 backlinks all coming from this one site. I checked the site this morning and I have been pushed off the Recent Comment widget, so it will be a matter of time before all those backlinks dissapear. None of my other backlinks were picked up by Site Explorer yet. Am I destined for the Google sandbox, though?