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  SiteWide Links - Too Many
Links What Are They?


Let me put two question:

Can you have too many links that can raise red flags?

Are 15,000 sitewide links good or bad?

Let me tackle each one...

Can you have too many links that can raise red flags?

YES in some cases too many links can give you some penalty. For example...

If you sell website templates and each user that downloads the template gives you a one way link from the template (means the template has a link back to your website) and you have some 14,000 users (so 14,000 backlinks all with same anchor text) that's not good idea.

I will do these changes:

1) First I will use other link building methods as well not just giving aways these templates.

2) I will make the links in the templates with different anchor text and also make some of the links point to different pages of my website; not all pointing to the homepage - so if I have 10,000 downloads not all 10,000 links will have the same anchor text and not all will link to homepage.

This is especially good to do if you have a lot of downloads like thousands of them.


In other words I am getting links but in a natural way. 14,000 one way links is amazing.

But ONLY worth it and good if:


Doing those changes links I get look "natural". So that should have answered the question, too many links can raise red flags BUT it won't raise any red flags if the links look "natural".

Second question:

Is 15,000 sitewide links are good or bad?

Sitewide links is different than the example above - these are all links on the same domain. So a website with 15,000 pages will give you 15,000 links, one link from each page. Or it will give you 10,000 links from 10,000 pages of the website.

Google does not count all backlinks you get from any one domain.

So it's not useless... but you won't get that same value as it might appear.

I would not buy such thing... for that simple reason that Google with count just a bunch of those links (will give you credit for only few links, maybe a 100) and ignore the rest.


Seems pretty on the surface (waw 15,000 links - that's insane!) no? But Google has a way around this, they know sites can sell these type of links.

Such "loopholes" to get a ton of links fast end some day or another...

Years ago you could by hundreds or thousands of links from ebay, and instantly get high rankings. Not anymore! Google had a way around that "loophole" of fast rankings.

So you've discovered that getting a lot of links is great, but you should make them appear "natural" by using different anchor text and pointing to different pages of your website.

Second you're understood that sitewide links look pretty on the surface, but truth be told they're not. It's better to buy 10 links on 10 different domains than 10,000 links all on the same domain.

Karl Sultana

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Karl Sultana started his online adventure in 2004. He started exploring SEO for a childish reason; he loved the fact that his website url is listed on many different websites all over the Internet. SEO instantly "clicked" right with him because it's all about getting links. Today he is known as the Link Builder Expert. Find more about Karl at: http://www.LinkBuilderExpert.com