Too many backlinks to a single page (homepage)... penalized?
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I have a large site, about 675K indexed pages. While we were doing some SEO-related tweaks to some inner pages, we continued link building, putting emphasis on 5 keywords for just the homepage. We probably posted 30K links per month for 3 months. Not all of these stuck, obviously.
Suddenly, on Aug 19, we dropped like a rock from first page of Google to 200+ on all keywords, then out of the index on 3 of the 5 keywords.
Apparently, a forum post had gone viral and in Webmaster tools we had 50K+ links just to the homepage and about 10K backlinks to inner pages.
We've stopped building links to the homepage obviously.
What happened? I've checked everywhere for duplicate content, other issues, but nothing so far. I'm hoping that link building to the inner pages will help.
Warriors -- I need your sound counsel. Should we:
1. Build links to inner pages only
2. Build links to both inner and homepage
3. Other suggestions?
Thanks in advance. Would love to hear from others that have run into and solved this problem.
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