Backlinks not working

[van dammage]

My site has previousley had approximatley 400 backlinks. I have used an Seo company to increase the backlinks to approximatley 7000 over a period of six weeks google has seen these links as over 7000 on webmaster tools.
On most of the keywords i am in the same position or lower with google.co.uk. Is it likley that google have sandboxed my site or does it just take a long time for google to recalculate my keyword search positions.

[Ali-v-8]

Never add so many link so soon.
You will now be flagged.
The links may not be bad links but making your website visible for google to scrutinise is not the most intelligent idea.

Who was the company you used.



My site has previousley had approximatley 400 backlinks. I have used an Seo company to increase the backlinks to approximatley 7000 over a period of six weeks google has seen these links as over 7000 on webmaster tools.
On most of the keywords i am in the same position or lower with google.co.uk. Is it likley that google have sandboxed my site or does it just take a long time for google to recalculate my keyword search positions.

[Jay-UK]

My site has previousley had approximatley 400 backlinks. I have used an Seo company to increase the backlinks to approximatley 7000 over a period of six weeks google has seen these links as over 7000 on webmaster tools.
On most of the keywords i am in the same position or lower with google.co.uk. Is it likley that google have sandboxed my site or does it just take a long time for google to recalculate my keyword search positions.

Google will have noticed your links and will now perform some figures around number of links per period. If the same number of links or thereabouts are not continued to be created then a few things will/may occur

- site will lose serp rankings
- site may experience extreme google dance
- site may get de-indexed for anything from 2-30 days

A lot will depend on the type of links

Many people are under the impression that by building too many links and then stopping means "sandboxing" totally incorrect. If this was the case then the likes of BBC wouldnt even rank as they link and have text from numerous sources [example]. Additionally, if this was the case we could easily cause competitor websites a great deal of problems by just creating spam links.

Anyway - not all your links will display in google - but they will be listed in Google Webmaster. You can also expect anything from 2 days to 30 days for links to appear, sometimes longer.

[Mr Niche]

That seems to be a lot of links with bad rankings.

Are you following all other instructions regarding SEO????

My website doesn't have nearly that amount of links and i'm getting ranked quite high!

Regards

Mr Niche

[SEO Traffic Solutions]

It sounds like your SEO people got a little carried away. I haven't had a look at your site so I don't know the age / authority. But if your site had a good page rank already and is quite old then you can get away with chucking a few thousands links at it in a few weeks.

If your site is brand new with no page rank then it doesn't look very natural; but the worst that Google will do is just ignore these new links.

I would say hang in there, concentrate on quality backlinks from now on (not quantity), and the rankings will come.

[OldWelshGuy]

Agree with most of the above. If you create an unnatural linking pattern then google will algorithmically lower your trustrank, and this in most cases results in lower rankings as it impacts across the other related elemnts (which is pretty much all the elements in the algo).

you need a pretty strong link footprint to be able to take 7k links that would be completely unnatural looking.

You will bounce back eventually.

[terryuk]

What type of links were they? Sounds like they would be junk...

I would suggest to get building some content also, host a blog if you haven't already and get blogging.

[OldWelshGuy]

Here is a tip, if you are going to get a rush of WEB2.0 backlinks to your site, add a new page or couple of pages, and make sure all the links go to those. New content often create a buzz in the social media world, while old pages rarely do.

So, in short, the google algorithm will allow for a sudden rush of links to new pages ;)

[Srivvy]

Hi van

Whats done is done in terms of those 7000 new links, so what you should do now is keep on top of the SEO in an ethical way by building quality content and finding links steadily from now on.

That 6 week link hit was a bad plan and some kind of punishment may be happening or on the way, but if your site looks like it is becoming a more trustworthy and useful resource that should limit any negative disruption.

[Vacman2000]

How many links per week should be submitted?? (if all were index by google)

[Jay-UK]

How many links per week should be submitted?? (if all were index by google)

impossible to answer tbh.

It all depends on age, current profile of link building, whether you are linking to new content, yada yada yada but any huge surge which is then stopped suddenly may get a raised eye brow

[Ian Feingold]

quality links not quantity of links is the one element we have been focusing on...we're 7 months old and are only now starting to rank well for some of our keywords.

[seo next]

My site has previousley had approximatley 400 backlinks. I have used an Seo company to increase the backlinks to approximatley 7000 over a period of six weeks google has seen these links as over 7000 on webmaster tools.
On most of the keywords i am in the same position or lower with google.co.uk. Is it likley that google have sandboxed my site or does it just take a long time for google to recalculate my keyword search positions.

Can you send me the URL of the site and i will be happy to help and analyze..