I was reading in SEOchat that heavy link building is illegal or liable to get you banned by search engines. This includes too many reciprocal or one way link exchanges within a short period of time. Of course, you can't believe everything that you read but I wanted to see what other people's thoughts were on this.

Never belive anything you read or people say to you and you will never do anything wrong or at all.



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This has been mentioned on this forum many times in several different threads. Most believe that you can get penalized from accumulating too many links too quickly. Makes you look like a "link farm" or FFA. Most of us try to get our recips slowly. Some keep it as low as 3 a week. I just try to get a few when I have the time.

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What about when a new trendy toy or fashion comes out.... the main brand's website probably gets 100's - 1000's plus of one way links within a week for the name of that toy.. and i'd bet they rank well for it pretty quick like...

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It just wouldn't seem to make sense, from Google's standpont, to penalize someone for becoming too popular too quickly.

They do seem to give credit to sites that have "been around" longer, but that's the only thing I've noticed really. I wouldn't slow down your link building just because of this rumor.

Perhaps whoever started the rumor just wasn't getting any ranking and used this theory as an excuse.

Nobody really knows for sure.

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what can happen is a lot of links and quickly sets off an alert to the SE's and you may get manually reviewed. If they find that the links look like they were purchased or part of some scheme you may get a penalty, however in the case of just doing a good job at recip link building or rustins example, I cant see them penalizing you for this.

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This question reminds me of an article I recently read about Google penalizing for a sudden influx of new pages. Here is a short blurb...
I think the same could hold true for a sudden influx of new links.

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and we all know, if you hire me then you get a sudden influx of links lol - the upside - we have lots of other clients that have had a sudden influx of links! ergo the behavior is normal hehe

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That's a fact Jack! I'm still trying to catch up with the links you sent me.

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Welll, I guess the question becomes; "What is considered a sudden influx of links?" Would it be 5 links a week? Would it be 10 links a week? Would it be 2 a day????

So many questions, so few answers. From what I've been told, you can go do 100 links a month and it won't trigger off the search engines if you vary your anchor text and spread the anchor text to various pages on your site as opposed to just having inbound links to one site, usually the index page.