Reported for spamming?

[K-Pax]

My employer has recently taken on a client who needs seo, together they quantified my work as 150 backlinks and billed her accordingly. The 150 links had to be done asap so I flew around blogs with dofollow sites or keywordluv and posted the links, one link per blog never more. The website has hardly any fresh content or much activity in general. The website bombed from 16th to 40th. Is this because a) Google knows what I was doing and didn't like it? or b) Someone reported me for spamming?

K-Pax

 

[OldWelshGuy]

probably neither, when did this happen?

If you push hard then you will de-stabilise the rankings that is how it works. It could be any number of things.

You say it bombed, did you build all the links with the same anchor text?

give us more to go on. Either way i wouldn't owrry, it will bounce back.

 

[123Simples]

Take your pick on the possible answers. As you say you flew around posting back-links but then I assume these back-links were posted in appropriate blogs or did you just bomb 150 links out anywhere?

A website needs content as well as meaningful back links - many people think that they can boost a site profile with link farming but I don't believe this, and even more so with Google. They are not stupid.

If the website has not been updated itself this might be the reason too

 

[K-Pax]

OldWelshGuy Thank you for the quick response, yea the majority of the anchor text was the same, though i did vary it now and then.

123Simples Yea the majority were on appropriate sites (loosely), that's exactly what I'm thinking, its just when I'm told 150 backlinks asap by my employer, I'm fairly new so I didn't argue my case.

 

[OldWelshGuy]

If you are going to have a rush in backlinking.
1. add or rewrite existing content on the site
2. mention it on the social web
3. build links to it quickly
4. slowly taper off the backlinks

That will then look more natural than just spamming blogs.

WWGT = What Would Google Think

 

[K-Pax]

I have a squidoo lens I can publish so I'll get that out and hit the socials, Is there anyway to know if I was reported for spamming by somebody and if I was will it still bounce back?

 

[OldWelshGuy]

you are not going to get a penalty for 150 links, it is just a wobble. Did you build any nofollow links?

 

[aidan1980]

do you know if these backlinks got published? if they were just all on blogs and were rushed there is a chance most have been caught by the spam filters or just not accepted

 

[K-Pax]

Yea there were a few nofollows links I heard that I should add a few every 10 or so links... I am using seoMOZ and I never see any of the links I post appear on seoMOZ "linking domains" do they just take FOREVER to appear?

 

[aidan1980]

Yea there were a few nofollows links I heard that I should add a few every 10 or so links... I am using seoMOZ and I never see any of the links I post appear on seoMOZ "linking domains" do they just take FOREVER to appear?

they take ages, especially if they are on crappy blogs

always good to through a few nofollow links in to make your profile look more natural

 

[amhsolutions]

Sounds to me like the google dance, google are just trying to work out where to put the website now, you should come back higher in the serps.

150 blog posts is nothing, they would never get indexed on the same day..

Have you checked to see if they are all indexed?

 

[fisicx]

Google make it quite clear in their webmaster guidelines that you should not attempt to artificially boost ranking. Your linkbuilding is just that. So why should google reward you if all the links you have created are junk.

 

[santexgroupseo]

try to build do follow links for your/your clients website it will help in faster keywords ranking and indexing in search engine.

 

[zigojacko]

Yea there were a few nofollows links I heard that I should add a few every 10 or so links... I am using seoMOZ and I never see any of the links I post appear on seoMOZ "linking domains" do they just take FOREVER to appear?

Yes, they take forever to appear as it takes ages for the tool to update. You're better off building your own tool as most of those available on the web run about two months behind.

 

[zigojacko]

Google make it quite clear in their webmaster guidelines that you should not attempt to artificially boost ranking. Your linkbuilding is just that. So why should google reward you if all the links you have created are junk.

What he said ^

 

[maxh]

When I was working at Wordtracker I started, but never finished, an article about bad links.

Basically, a bad link WILL NEVER hurt your website unless the website is brand spanking new.

Linking to a bad neighbourhood, however, will.

If I could do-over all of my competition by building spam links to them I would be quids in. You dig?

This was ratified by the creepy uncle of SEO Mike Grehan.

 

[terryuk]

Google make it quite clear in their webmaster guidelines that you should not attempt to artificially boost ranking. Your linkbuilding is just that. So why should google reward you if all the links you have created are junk.

Yet almost every SEO in the industry does so to be able to sell SEO as a service.....

Google is blind in most cases, what are 150 sites in a blog network in comparison to the millionssssss of website it crawls.

Fair enough if it's blatantly obvious but you know

When I was working at Wordtracker I started, but never finished, an article about bad links.

Basically, a bad link WILL NEVER hurt your website unless the website is brand spanking new.

Linking to a bad neighbourhood, however, will.

If I could do-over all of my competition by building spam links to them I would be quids in. You dig?

This was ratified by the creepy uncle of SEO Mike Grehan.

Have you tested that yeh? WILL NEVER is a strong statement to be honest. Regardless of spam links, links can hurt websites... Whether temporary or permanent.....

But my guess is taking out someones business for one month, could cost someone a bomb shell.

 

[OldWelshGuy]

I have taken sites out using external forces (not saying any more) other than to say they were my own sites, or sites provided willingly as test sites.

 

[crosbtmrkt]

i cant see 150 links being a problem for any site even one that's a day old the people who i have heard of that have caused problems have been building 1000s with software's like xrumer so i just would not worry about it.

its probably google dance and it will come back ranking better.

 

[gzammit]

Hi, I don't think it's the right way to build links. Having said that I don't think google will penalize you for getting a sudden inflow of 150 links if the chosen blogs weren't considered as spammy from the start.

 

[malcom.disouza]

I think both condition are possible at your condition. If you steal content from another website then that website owner reported your website on google. And google consider this as a spam and penalize you.

 

[OldWelshGuy]

I think both condition are possible at your condition. If you steal content from another website then that website owner reported your website on google. And google consider this as a spam and penalize you.

Sorry but that is just wrong.

If you steal content from another site, and someone files a DMCA report, then google will remove the content (your content that you stole) from the index, and possibly if the breach is of a large % of your content, remove the site completely from the index.

It doesn't consider it as spam, it is a manual process for content theft. Nothing at all to do with the quality algorithm

 

[James1556]

How about not spamming other peoples websites. It's a poor way to operate. I get tired and frustrated cleaning this sort of **** off my website all the time. Please stop doing it.

 

[amy9]

Apart from the fact that this is a pretty crappy means of link-building, it probably isn't the reason the site moved down the rankings.

Most likely, the site has been noticed by Google and thus it's position has been shuffled. It should move back up before long. In the mean time, try to build some high quality and relevant links...

 

[Cornish Steve]

How about not spamming other peoples websites. It's a poor way to operate. I get tired and frustrated cleaning this sort of **** off my website all the time. Please stop doing it.

As a non-SEO person, I have to agree with this comment. It's very frustrating to see comments daily along the lines of "Wow - what fantastic insight. Your thoughts are clear and penetrating. By the way, have you considered using xxx service?" where xxx is anything from link-building to window-washing.

In terms of business ethics, I just don't see how posting such garbage can be deemed acceptable by anyone. It's like someone dropping litter in your garden every time they walk by your house. If I could force the guilty parties to clean up the mess they make, I would.

 

[James1556]

Steve, sadly that's all of what 99% of SEO 'experts' seem to do. And fools keep giving them money to do it.

For some reason email spam is seen as an evil, yet website spam is seen as an intelligent super secret that I'm meant to pay some goon to do often for a lot of money. The worst sort are the ones who use automated tools to spam on an industrial scale. Contrary to their own beliefs, they are not marketing/SEO gurus.

If you don't understand what you are buying, don't buy it. Most people seem to think their site isn't getting much traffic so they should throw some money at anyone who talks confidently enough.

 

[RevaxMedia]

My employer has recently taken on a client who needs seo, together they quantified my work as 150 backlinks and billed her accordingly. The 150 links had to be done asap so I flew around blogs with dofollow sites or keywordluv and posted the links, one link per blog never more. The website has hardly any fresh content or much activity in general. The website bombed from 16th to 40th. Is this because a) Google knows what I was doing and didn't like it? or b) Someone reported me for spamming?

K-Pax

Wow, I would love to be your client. The possibilities could be endless, devalued website can be due to 100's of factors.