Too much too soon? Should I anticipate problems?

[jonsnoblackcro]

Hello,

I am new to SEO and recently started using services on this website. I bought a small trial package from Sarkar and immediately saw great results! Obviously I'm now a believer.

I think I may have gone overboard but I bought two premium packages for my website and I'm wondering if all this added backlinking and what not so soon could end up being a problem from a manual review or maybe from an algorithmic one. I don't know.

Should I anticipate problems and if so what kind? How can I resolve them? Do I need to slow down?

 

[BeatDaBest]

Not sure what the offer/service is, but there are two approaches to this:

1. Bank and Bail
2. Be Patient and Profit for Years

Bank and bail is exactly what it sounds like. Create a site, rank it high with the goal of making $$$$$ fast, and then if it loses rankings you've already made enough profit to not care. Anything after that is just a bonus.

OR (this is the approach I prefer)

Try to make it look natural. Now, I'm not sure what the service is, but whenever I used to buy links I made sure to try & make it look natural.

Never did any serious backlinking until I got at least a bit of traction through simple SEO/social.
Bought links whenever a post of mine was doing specifically well as then it makes sense for the links to be going to that post.
Didn't buy PBN links (at least after one of my sites got pinched by Google) and only bought more "natural" in content links.
Made sure that if I bought links, the social engagement was also there & the traffic was there so I wasn't getting 5 links per day & only 5 visits per day. - Kind of fishy, no?

Now what I did is looked at as overkill by many people, but all I know is that my sites that I created a while back are still ranking & haven't been hit by any of the Google updates (yet.).

Will they be? I think it's highly unlikely.

Is it possible?

If you do any BH stuff that's not completely in your own hands- definitely.

 

[jonsnoblackcro]

Not sure what the offer/service is, but there are two approaches to this:

1. Bank and Bail
2. Be Patient and Profit for Years

Bank and bail is exactly what it sounds like. Create a site, rank it high with the goal of making $$$$$ fast, and then if it loses rankings you've already made enough profit to not care. Anything after that is just a bonus.

OR (this is the approach I prefer)

Try to make it look natural. Now, I'm not sure what the service is, but whenever I used to buy links I made sure to try & make it look natural.

Never did any serious backlinking until I got at least a bit of traction through simple SEO/social.
Bought links whenever a post of mine was doing specifically well as then it makes sense for the links to be going to that post.
Didn't buy PBN links (at least after one of my sites got pinched by Google) and only bought more "natural" in content links.
Made sure that if I bought links, the social engagement was also there & the traffic was there so I wasn't getting 5 links per day & only 5 visits per day. - Kind of fishy, no?

Now what I did is looked at as overkill by many people, but all I know is that my sites that I created a while back are still ranking & haven't been hit by any of the Google updates (yet.).

Will they be? I think it's highly unlikely.

Is it possible?

If you do any BH stuff that's not completely in your own hands- definitely.

Yea that is something I am definitely worried about. We are a professional service and we actually need to be in the long game. I guess I just felt like since we never made it to the first page and only Adwords was making us money it wouldn't kill us to be penalized since it never made a difference anyway.

If I do get pinched, can I rectify it? We really need to rank, I think it will quadruple our business if we get up there. Should I disavow some of these links or do you think this could be just something that's too late to fix? We have tripled our backlinks in the last few weeks and I have to imagine they are about to skyrocket some more once these new packages come in.

We decided to go black hat when I was researching our competitors websites and I saw high rated websites linking that were in korean (some sort of asian language) and many pages that were obviously not really organic backlinks when you saw them. They were for sure using black hat techniques imo so I was like if you can't beat em, join em.

 

[BeatDaBest]

Yea that is something I am definitely worried about. We are a professional service and we actually need to be in the long game. I guess I just felt like since we never made it to the first page and only Adwords was making us money it wouldn't kill us to be penalized since it never made a difference anyway.

If I do get pinched, can I rectify it? We really need to rank, I think it will quadruple our business if we get up there. Should I disavow some of these links or do you think this could be just something that's too late to fix? We have tripled our backlinks in the last few weeks and I have to imagine they are about to skyrocket some more once these new packages come in.

Makes sense. Depending on what penalty you get (if any) it can be rectified, but personally I wouldn't disavow stuff right now.

I'd probably try to do a natural social media campaign & try to be super active see if you can get engagement or even run ads to get post engagement, dilute the links w/ natural blog comment links, maybe do some real guest posts so it's "balanced out."

NO guarantee that will work, but that's my 2 cents.

 

[jonsnoblackcro]

Makes sense. Depending on what penalty you get (if any) it can be rectified, but personally I wouldn't disavow stuff right now.

I'd probably try to do a natural social media campaign & try to be super active see if you can get engagement or even run ads to get post engagement, dilute the links w/ natural blog comment links, maybe do some real guest posts so it's "balanced out."

NO guarantee that will work, but that's my 2 cents.

Well I definitely appreciate your advice. One of our packages focuses on social media campaign to some extent so I will be sure to take advantage of everything once it's set up.

Thanks again for your advice.

 

[Deleted member 708208]

Always anticipate the outcomes.