Comments on: SEO Test finalized - Unnatural link growth

By: Avivasearch

Avivasearch — Wed, 09 May 2007 02:07:18 +0000

Excellent article. I guess the only way to fool the search engines is to (unnaturally) build links in a way that appears natural.

By: Huge amount of links added to my new site

Huge amount of links added to my new site — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:50:35 +0000

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By: Aviva

Aviva — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:24:03 +0000

1 thought and 1 question:

1. Could this also involve an issue of trustrank? One of the things that struck me immediately was that netmarketing.us had several high pagerank links to it, which would have given it a much higher pagerank than webrelatedarticles.com. My understanding of trust rank is that it flags high pagerank pages with a low trust score. I wonder if you had the same number of links, but lower pagerank ones, if things would have been different.

2. It don’t know if there’s a typo or something, but I don’t understand why the link difference between the two sites was so large when it seems like approximately the same amount of co-op weight was directed at them.

I do appreciate you carrying out this experiment. Very interesting and helpful.

By: Andre

Andre — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 01:43:07 +0000

Very odd but interesting. Maybe there are other factors?

By: Marcus

Marcus — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 14:01:24 +0000

This is what I always expected, but now i know for sure.
Thanks! This is useful info
I shall try not to overlink myself, I didn´t have that problem a few months ago but now when I have more websites I have to link slowly.
I guess there isn´t really a way of setting a limit just don´t hit over oh let+s say 9000 backlinks on MSN.

I tried this myself a while ago and added a total of 7500 backlinks (MSN links) all at one time.
And the site is still indexed (luck perhaps)
Now the question is how long will it take for your website to get reindexed by the allmighty Google.