Building Links Too Fast = Blacklisting?

by Michelle MacPhearson

With Social Media Daily, and now 30 Minute Backlinks, I’m often asked if it’s OK to get links to a brand new site and/or will getting links to a new domain get it “blacklisted.”

In short, the answer is yes it OK and no it won’t get your site “banned.” Every site desperately needs links, and going out and getting them will not hurt you. You may have heard eejits on forums telling you getting too many links to fast can hurt your site – and that’s true. But there’s a BIG variable in their scare tactics – the “too fast” thing. Truth is, if you generate 1000 links in 3 hours from ONLY Blogger blogs (for example), yeah, that *could* (maybe… it doesn’t always…) raise a red flag in the search engines eyes. It takes some black hat voodoo to make that happen, and the search engines know it.

However, building natural links to your site via Social Media Daily or 30 Minute Backlinks is perfectly normal and acceptable.

Here’s how a brand new site developed links with 30 Minute Backlinks and the results it produced. It’s not “blacklisted” and is receiving search engine traffic (awesome numbers too, by the way).

Visit 30 Minute Backlinks to learn more.

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Peter February 21, 2008 at 3:49 am

Hi Michelle, more great advice, thanks!

P.s. Got a copy of 30 minute backlinks, working through it when I have spare time (not much) but can see huge potential for building links!

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Hamant Keval February 21, 2008 at 11:58 am

Hello Michelle,
As usual you always seem to come up with valuable little nuggets of gold.

Many thanks

Hamant

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Michelle MacPhearson February 21, 2008 at 1:34 pm

Awesome Peter – and thank you Hamant!

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Earning a Living Online February 21, 2008 at 5:48 pm

Hi Michelle, Just wanted to let you know that I agree with you on the getting links too fast theory and also wanted to know how I can view the video in this post. When you click to play You Tube says the video is no longer available. Anyway keep up the great work with valuable posts like this you earned another RSS Subscriber..:)

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beth February 21, 2008 at 10:02 pm

what happend to the you tube video? It says its no longer available.

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Doug February 21, 2008 at 11:48 pm

Hi Michelle Nice article, if getting links to fast resulted in a blacklisting – I am sure that black hat webmasters would use it to sabotage competitors .

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Michelle MacPhearson February 22, 2008 at 1:55 am

I see two of you can’t view the video – don’t know why… It’s up in YouTube still & getting views. Maybe try clearing your cache?

Here’s the direct link if that’ll help:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U9qQd6_-Kg

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Davion | Online Marketing Blog February 22, 2008 at 2:03 am

Yes, you are right Michelle. As long as the links are natural and not spammy, your site will benefit from the link love.

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Links Directories February 22, 2008 at 4:03 am

Hi Michele

Are any other costs involved in your 30 minute backlink course? I am familiar with the technique you are teaching (I think), but when I have looked at it previously, there were other costs involved. It would be helpful to know the extent of the costs for the additional tools.

Regards

Charlie

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adam libman February 24, 2008 at 8:18 am

i really like the cats in the background. it made me laugh. How many cats do you have?

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Stuart February 24, 2008 at 7:22 pm

A quick question Michelle. If your 30 Minute Backlinks are so good, then why does the http://www.30minutebacklinks.com/ website have ZERO (0) page rank ?

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Michelle MacPhearson February 24, 2008 at 8:02 pm

@Adam – We’ve got 4 cats. We live on 5 acres, so it’s good for the mice population. :-)

@Stuart – Google’s visible PR (what you see in the toolbar) is only updated every 3-6 months, so a brand new site, from me or anyone else, will have PR zero until Google updates visible PR.

Regardless, PR is absolutely useless if you don’t rank for your search terms and get traffic. I really wish folks would stop focusing on PR and instead focusing on raking for decent keywords, generating traffic, etc. If you focus on those other things, the ego-boost of a decent PR will follow (and that’s all PR is good for – an ego boost).

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Niche Annihilation Method February 25, 2008 at 10:43 am

I completely agree with you. Search engines should be able to identify between “natural and fast” and spammy.

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Online Traffic Formula, March 20, 2008 at 1:36 pm

Thanks for clearing this up. I was apprehensive to try your method because of this.

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Michelle MacPhearson March 25, 2008 at 3:50 pm

The site in the video is now on the first page for its keyword, both with and without quotes. I’ve done nothing else to it but run 30 Minute Backlinks. Brand new domain, no sandbox – RANKED! (And earning)

-Michelle

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Business Opportunities April 4, 2008 at 10:04 pm

Is 30 minute backlinks about posting to web 2.0 sites?

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Regenna Deruso April 17, 2008 at 4:11 pm

Hi Michelle, I must admit I am an advid fan of yours ever since I came across social media daily. I do have a question: When we write a new article for our site, How many sites do we bookmark it with at first, how much time do we let pass before we bookmark our site again? No one talks about this in any great length. I am trying to develop a daily promotional game plan to start advertising my site, but I just don’t understand this social bookmarking strategy to well. Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

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Michelle MacPhearson April 28, 2008 at 1:20 pm

@Business Opportunities – no, it’s not web 2 link building.

@Regenna – I bookmark anywhere and everywhere, all at once.

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Web Design St George May 2, 2008 at 8:54 am

Great info. I have received and heard conflicting advice on this subject a little. In addition, I had a site in the top 5 for its keyword and I just paid for 200 directory submissions and the links were one way and not spammy. However, I have nearly fell out of the SERPs in the matter of 72 hours. Can you give me some advice or explain this? thanks so much.

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Chris S. May 15, 2008 at 8:15 pm

I am trying your 30 minutes system.Great idea!

I am sure that if you suddenly came up with 200 backlinks in a day or two period (from software submission) Google will consider it funky and unnatural and allow you to rank on page 368.

How many links a day/week should be safe per/site?

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Michelle MacPhearson May 22, 2008 at 10:09 pm

@Chris S – the link building method taught in 30 Minute backlinks is actually a standard practice in the shareware industry (for about 8 years), so it’s not “weird’ for Google to see this happen.

@WebDesignStGeorge you probably need more links from places that are not JUST directories.

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Thomas R July 5, 2008 at 4:04 pm

While there is a lot on the internet regarding new sites going into the Google “Sandbox” if too many links occur too quickly, is there any risk of a relatively mature site getting penalized for a sudden burst of links? I really like the video – some great tips to take notice.

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billy August 12, 2008 at 10:50 am

As long as links are quality ones everything should be ok ;)

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Internet Marketing Blogs May 11, 2009 at 12:55 am

I think what is more important in building link is link quality and relevancy, build links makes sense to mix up the anchor text and descriptions so that you are relevant for different keywords and do not make your link profile looking too unnatural

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jeremyhenderson August 19, 2009 at 5:14 am

So, I just got done watching this video and then went to yahoo site explorer for the url that you mentioned – mytattoodesignslive. I noticed there are 2470 pages, wow. I also noticed there was only (1) inlink.

Is the method you teach in 30 minute backlinks only temporary? Why would the original inbound links disappear?

Thanks for the great value on your blog.

Jeremy

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MichelleMacPhearson August 19, 2009 at 8:53 am

@Jeremy – Yahoo Site Explorer shows about 2k links on my end, the www domain.

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jeremyhenderson August 19, 2009 at 8:57 am

Duh to me. I didn't include the www. Guess that's why you make the big dollars and I'm still learning, eh? Again thanks for the awesome value.

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MichelleMacPhearson August 19, 2009 at 9:02 am

@Jeremy – No worries – we've all got to start somewhere and being inquisitive is what'll help you learn even faster!

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affcash January 25, 2010 at 1:01 pm

So can you throw thousands of links a day on an aged domain….say one that is 10 years old and get away with it vs. a new domain?

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