Can you get banned by google for mass backlinks?

It seems a bit late to worry about it now as the deed is done, but from what I have read about backlinking you will get different opinions from different people and you won't get a definitve answer one way or the other.

I doubt they will ban you, but they could sandbox you for a while. It has happened to me in the past, what I did was I added more content. That got their attention, and in a few weeks I started going up again since all my backlinking at this point was at a steady pace.

First of all, there won't be any permanent ban from google, you might be referring to the sandbox effect (which is temporary). I have done some tests in the past, in which I have blasted more than 10k spammy backlinks to some new sites, and they didn't get sandboxed. This might not apply to your case, but it is just to let you know that the risks of getting sandboxed aren't always very high.

However, if it did get sandboxed, this would be temporary, and there are ways of getting faster out of the sandbox.

Anyways, if your rankings changes, then it could also be due to the Google dance. Your site would be constantly bouncing on the search results for some days due to Google looking for an appropiate position for your website. This is not a penalization.

If your site is new, then next time you should schedule your RSS feed submission and pinging so that you backlinking looks more natural.

Penalized maybe.. Google also tracks the link growth of a website. Any unusual spike will get their attention. Build links "naturally" by doing it manually.

There are ways to make your link building look "natural" by using automated methods. Automated tools are effective, VERY effective but only if you know how to use them correctly. Work smarter, not harder.

Thanks for all the responses. I have not seen any move in my rankings, my site has been in the exact same position since before and 3 weeks after i got those 4k blog comment backlinks to show in yahoo explorer.

Probably not banned, but you could get a temporary penalty.

I only do high quality, high PR backlinks to my sites because it's so much more stable and reduces google dance.

Google can definitely ban your website since you are creating thousands of links in a matter of days. You should have asked that question before you blasted your site with thousands of links.

i dont think they will ban you or even sandbox you....they will just ignore all those links....if not then people would be just signing their competitors up for a 100k spammy backlinks to get them sandboxed or banned!!

More often than not, people's expectation of what Google "bans" is based on heresay from forums like the WF than actual personal testing. Always test!

However, I can tell you this from personal experience. When building a large quantity of backlinks in Google, it's generally a bad idea to ping them all and spoon feed your links to Google. I prefer to just build even more backlinks to my backlinks and let Googlebot find them on their own. I can't prove that this works better for sure as there are too many variables but personal testing says this seems to produce better results.

Banning because of mass backlinks? I have seen many people who blasted their site even if they're newly-launched sites and did not get banned. Funny thing about this, is that they've actually get good ranking in SERP and stayed there for a long time.

They've lost their ranking by few, not because of what they did, but because there have been some "big dogs" that dominated the competition.

So to conclude, the belief that you might get banned if you build mass backlinks to your site is only a myth (based on what I've seen). So, don't worry in building links to your site. build as much as you can.

But always remember the Google guidelines to keep you on the right track.

I don't think you get penalized as such for mass backlinks but other things related such as inconsistency, thin content, bad backlinks can get you penalized

Ok I just read an article on this very thing. A guy did say he was sandboxed but I would have to agree that if google does sandbox people than you could just go after you competitors sites

Depends if you have any good links yet. The reason why you can't blast competition is because they have established authority already. You have none which is why blasting your site can be bad.

Yes, I have a doubt that they may ban you, as far as it is massive backlinks in short time period, other than that, it is blog comments, most of the blog posts which allow commenting become spammy pages later days as far as many people used to spread their links over there - All these will make Google to ban your site.

However, I hope, if you can get few quality backlinks (say 10 per day - article submissions or blogging etc) and make them get indexed using ping services - you may be in safe. Good luck with that.

google will not ban you permanent but you could get sandboxed

They don't ban, they'll eventually just devalue/discount the links as they are nothing but low quality spam. If you site blows as well then I wouldn't expect this process as a long term business plan.

I don't think your website got banned at all. Maybe it is a sort of sandbox effect. What you need to do is continue doing backlinking but approach it differently. Try to do a little bit of allot of different things and not so much of just one thing. And at this stage, do not get all of the links pinged so that you would get a gradual increase as opposed to a more sudden increase you experience through pinging. So the advice really is to continue.

I think what you can do is just wait and see, and stop to worried about this. But focus on high quality, high PR backlinks would be better in next time.

Well... well ... well.. Now it's not a time regret. You have done it that one before. Now you can wait. You have full chances for Ban however if all are quality links then it may save you. All the best.

Well your doubt it right. Your site may get penalized. Mass back links are the part of black hat seo. And Google only like white hat. Hope your site may have good back links that can help you from not being penalized. Good Luck.

There is great chance for you to be black listed if you go on on such a huge backlinks on small period.Be careful.

If you are a blackhat spammer, then probably your site may get banned. But I have not seen or heard any of one's experience of being banned by Google. Often the ranking goes down significantly.

You've just used a black hat technique for your own website. The best that could happen is SE won't penalize you.

Do you all realize you are "poopoo-ing" somebody who posted 3 months ago?

Pinging the backlinks was your mistake. It would have taken Google a long time to find those 10k links and it's not going to happen at one time. It would have happened regularly. But now, you let Google know that there are 10k new backlinks, no thanks to the ping.

You might get sandboxed. But just continue building links. You'll come back stronger than ever.

I have just had some links done (wiki links) - probably around 1000 in all. I am thinking to ping these but want to ensure it will not harm my site. My site is a proper business site, not a site for adsense or just money making. I do gradual link building through hubpages, squidoo lens, blogger etc and also article submissions. I have never thought to ping all these before. But as I have just had around 1000 wiki type links done I was going to ping these (there are around 3 batches with 3 sets of keywords) but did not want to do them all at once for fear of the 'sandbox' - we are at a critical time in our business as it is seasonal and just trying to get ahead of the competition.

I was thinking to ping these - maybe 50 or so links at a time, once a week....or could I do more?

I know its not a question that can be answered with any guarantee but what do google consider un-natural? 10,000 spammy blog comments in one go or would 100 links from wiki pages in one day also look un-natural.

I do a fair amount of link building - usually a couple of blog comments a day, a hub or squidoo lens a week......