Can backlinks hurt your site?

[Nerdie]

Here's an interesting article that details what can happen when you have the wrong kind of backlinks.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-check ... s-rankings

For one thing, blog networks that artificially inflate the number of backlinks to a site were penalized, as well as some sites that had massive numbers of backlinks as a result of blog rolls. Just wondering if sites using reciprocal links were equally penalized due to their mass backlinks.

 

[Jack~Rouse]

Reciprocal linking and affiliate linking are now frowned upon by Google if they are out of niche, they do not carry as much juice as they used to.

Since Penguin it is better to have links from in niche sites with a PR4 than it is to have links from out of niche sites with a PR10.

This was done to penalise link farms that tended to spam high ranking sites, now it has less benefit.

 

[Beverly]

Here's an interesting article that details what can happen when you have the wrong kind of backlinks.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-check ... s-rankings

For one thing, blog networks that artificially inflate the number of backlinks to a site were penalized, as well as some sites that had massive numbers of backlinks as a result of blog rolls. Just wondering if sites using reciprocal links were equally penalized due to their mass backlinks.

Blog networks are iffy anyway. Penguin 2.0 killed the possibility of being able to use this backlinking too effectively.

 

[k1111]

When back links are origination from a bad neighborhood, then can completely harm your site but when origination from a good neighbor and too done in NOT a spam way, then its all fine.

 

[PeteT]

very useful information there Nerdie thank you for the share.

 

[GrabThe.com]

As long as you only get links related to your field then you should be fine. I have some sites that have tons of great backlinks and since they are all on relevant sites I am doing well with them. Don't put your link on a medical site if your site is about cows or whatever...

 

[Kindle]

As long as you only get links related to your field then you should be fine. I have some sites that have tons of great backlinks and since they are all on relevant sites I am doing well with them. Don't put your link on a medical site if your site is about cows or whatever...

:lol: I'm definitely agreeing with this statement, the only time back-links can hurt, is if the website isn't related to your niche or their just very low quality sites. 😉

 

[jessicarobin]

HI,

Its can be hurt if they come from spamming and adult sites.

 

[donald22]

Backlinks are supposed to be a vote of confidence by people totally unrelated to you or your site and should be something out of your control ie I saw this great site today at www whatever .com etc, so if you buy or even ad a link from a site you own or leave loads of blog or forum comments, in the eyes of google you are voting for yourself and effectively cheating. Everybody does it but google are clamping down with penguin etc.

 

[RH-Calvin]

Linking in relevant niche based sites are really very helpful, also we must declare Relationship i.e rel="Friend" while linking in any site.

 

[Bizarrio]

Bad backlinks will hurt your website, while good backlinks will be good for your site.

I think it is a bad idea to buy backlinks though, it is much better to collect backlinks naturally.

 

[GeekStep]

Yeah, backlinks can hurt your site. So if you want to exchange links, do check up on the credibility of the link you are exchanging with.

 

[E07.NET]

If you are building slow, natural and relevant backlinks, it won't hurt.

 

[hansenmartin]

if you have natural and relevant back links then it will not hurt your site.

 

[Wann]

Thanks for the information! Bad backlinks do hurt your site though.

 

[donald22]

If your site is any good people will link to it. eg our support forum has a link to this site under forum seo as this is the no1 forum promotion site.