Comments on: Google’s Creepy Crawlers are Back

By: Jonathan Dingman

Jonathan Dingman — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:03:47 +0000

Mani,

I’m actually not buying links, they are all natural inbound links.

Florchakh,

I agree with that as well. I definitely do not encourage “random linking” just from high PR sites or from any old site. Relative links are key to any website’s success in the SEO world.

By: Florchakh

Florchakh — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:27:39 +0000

Too many unnatural backlinks may hurt, usually you just need to follow some “smart linking frequency”. To be honest, not in every case – you can put 10k pretty strong links and do well, as well as you can put 1k of hypertext links and get site sandboxed for 3 months :/

I totally agree, quality over quantity, that’s the way it goes!

By: Mani

Mani — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:45:29 +0000

Jonathan, I agree with you. the increase in crawlers can be attributed to the increase in backlinks. But yes, increase in number of backlinks is not anything to be worried about, but yes – a sudden increase will raise flags at google. Because in such a case, its likely that you bought too many backlinks.

But a gradual increase over some weeks is alright. And, since you have no control over who links to you – there is nothing to be scared about.Since its all natural links as you mentioned – they are most likely from the same niche or atleast closer.(are there any artificial number of bad neighbourhood links?)

Apart from these two facts – all safe.

Hope it helped.

Cheers!
Mani

By: Jonathan Dingman

Jonathan Dingman — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:55:31 +0000

Woops! Thanks, I corrected it.

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:25:45 +0000

Just thought I should pouint out a spelling-mistake (or so I believe).

“Is it possible that too many backlinks is back for your site?”
should be:

“Is it possible that too many backlinks is bad for your site?”