I ended off by saying 'no', but that also there is an effect that relies on the sources from which those backlinks come from.
I apologize as it may seem I haven't really answered the question until this post, as last post really went over the effects of acquiring a large sum of backlinks. In this post we get to the bottom of it all, as to why you should not worry about getting a large sum of backlinks. The other post kind of answered this question about having a large amount, but that was one side - so here's the other.
As you could tell had you been following along, near the end of the previous post I hinted that the question had many sides to it, as one answer could not be enough since there are many variables.
These include the quality of the backlinks, whether they are high pagerank or not, as well as being related to your market. Now another factor is whether you acquire these naturally, as in other websites linking to you on their own. You could also get backlinks in a faster way forcefully, and those methods are for another post at another time.
Having Too Many Backlinks | Part 2
Now to the main topic, can you get too many backlinks or not? I say no, because if you were to be punished by the search engines for having too much backlinks, just think how easy it would be to just knock out the competition instead of getting backlinks for yourself!
That was actually the case in the early years of search engines, but the developers get smarter and smarter everyday, fine tuning the engines to remove bugs and loopholes such as this one. Think about it, if having too many backlinks was a bad thing, could you not simply spam and get your competition a ton of backlinks, thus receive a drop from rankings in the search engines for them - and a raise in rankings for you?
But that doesn't happen nowadays, so having lots of backlinks is NOT a bad thing, to prevent competition from getting real dirty and exploiting the engines.
Another reason why getting too much backlink is not bad is to look at the life a viral trend. Sites like Facebook and Youtube get millions of hits day in, day out. Just think of all the linking people do to these sites because they are so popular, talk about automatic backlinking. It's not just that a popular site with a ton of links is not a bad thing, but the fact that once something goes viral - you CANNOT stop people from talking!!!
If you're getting links naturally and you're sitting on a viral trend, expect to gain a massive amount of backlink, and they won't stop coming in anytime soon. Do you think you deserve punishment because you're popular and people won't stop talking about you? Of course not, and that's how the search engines are developed as well. If your site is about the invention of fried ice cream, expect to get a lot of hits once people find out about it, and those hits translate into many backlinks. But the engines cannot look down on you, because other people are linking to you, you "aren't" getting them yoursef.
You have no control over what people do, for the most part, so if they want to link to you - why should you get in trouble for it? That's how natural linking works, people like something on your site and want to share it with others. A viral sensation is able to get more links and in a shorter amount of time, that's the difference.
But here's a secret if you want to do it forcefully, as getting natural backlink is a bit slow. You can sit on your chair and wait forever for people to notice you and even then who knows if they will think your content is good enough to share - so a faster way to get backlinks is forcefully (another day another post), but you should do so in a certain manner or suffer with the search engines.
Getting Many Backlinks Without Penalty
Imitate natural backlinking campaigns!!!You don't have to be a viral sensation, but make your website appear as one if you plan to dump a load of links onto it. If your site is about a cool invention, go ahead and get those backlinks anyway you can - but make sure they come from social sites where people gossip and talk a lot, and make sure the rate at which you get them does NOT go over the rate of a naturally viral trend.
Viral trends take time to explode into popularity, no site is expected to ever get 10000 backlinks in a few days, got it?
That's it for the post. Here's what you need to take away?
Is there such thing as having too many backlinks?
NO, but you should still be aware of the effects on your sites rank:
1) It depends on the source - high or low pagerank
2) depends on the website - related or unrelated
and why having too much backlink isn't a bad thing?:
1) You can't stop other people from linking to you, for the most part (You can still pay them to, revealed later on)
2) As long as you imitate a natural linking process, you'll remain under the radar.
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