How many daily backlinks for Dripfeed?
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theoretically, yes, you can increase them. But it's not as simple as that.
Link velocity (how many links you build per day / week / month) does matter, like I said, but this is only part of the equation and other important factors need to be considered. For example:
1) building exact number of links at regular intervals is very bad because it creates patterns and one thing that google are very good at is detecting patterns.
What I'm trying to say here is: do not build [whatever exact number] of links per [whatever interval] like clockwork. Vary both numbers to avoid creating patterns. For example, build 1 link today, then 6 links tomorrow, then no links for 3-4 days, then 1-2 more links the next week, then 0 links again, then 3 links the next day, and so on. If you constantly build 2 links today, 2 links tomorrow, then 2 more links the day after tomorrow, etc... well, this screams "link building" to google from the top of this pattern's lungs
2) do not point all of the links to the same page, and especially if it's a commercial page.
Imagine that you have a website with 30 pages and only the homepage of your site gets 2 links per day, like clockwork, for 3 months. Don't you think this behaviour gives away your intentions of manipulating google?
I've already addressed the need to vary the number of links you build, so I'm not discussing it again. But what I will discuss at this point is the need to point the links to multiple pages of your site. I think the bulk of your links should still go to the homepage, but a fair amount of them (say 30-40% of the total backlinks that you have) should also go to other pages, and - like I said earlier - preferably to info pages instead of commercial ones.
Of course, if you have an ecom website, most of your pages will be commercial so there's nothing you can do about it in this case. But if you have a blog / affiliate website, try to point the links to the pages that provide (informational) value to the people. This sucks, I know, because we all want to rank the pages that make us money, not the pages that have no affiliate links and no monetization option, but google doesn't want anyone else to make money so we have to either show google the middle finger and black hat the hell out of their algorithm, or dance how google sings.
And if you want to be white hat and dance to how google sings you will need to point the links to the info pages... or at least most of them anyway, I don't think you'll get screwed for pointing 1-2 links to the money pages every now and then
3) mind the anchor texts
I know that you didn't ask about this in your OP, but google's latest update seems to have specifically targeted pages with irrelevantly anchor'd backlinks. So, when you build links, if you point the links to the homepage, try to use branded and URL anchors most of the time, but when you build links to the inner pages try to use exact / partial match anchors most of the time, but - although they're exact / partial match - you still need to vary those anchors a lot so that you avoid triggering the Penguin penalty (or the Panda penalty, I don't remember which one was which, but the point is that you don't want to have too many anchors of the same type for your inner pages, and definitely not too many exact match anchors)
Link velocity (how many links you build per day / week / month) does matter, like I said, but this is only part of the equation and other important factors need to be considered. For example:
1) building exact number of links at regular intervals is very bad because it creates patterns and one thing that google are very good at is detecting patterns.
What I'm trying to say here is: do not build [whatever exact number] of links per [whatever interval] like clockwork. Vary both numbers to avoid creating patterns. For example, build 1 link today, then 6 links tomorrow, then no links for 3-4 days, then 1-2 more links the next week, then 0 links again, then 3 links the next day, and so on. If you constantly build 2 links today, 2 links tomorrow, then 2 more links the day after tomorrow, etc... well, this screams "link building" to google from the top of this pattern's lungs
2) do not point all of the links to the same page, and especially if it's a commercial page.
Imagine that you have a website with 30 pages and only the homepage of your site gets 2 links per day, like clockwork, for 3 months. Don't you think this behaviour gives away your intentions of manipulating google?
I've already addressed the need to vary the number of links you build, so I'm not discussing it again. But what I will discuss at this point is the need to point the links to multiple pages of your site. I think the bulk of your links should still go to the homepage, but a fair amount of them (say 30-40% of the total backlinks that you have) should also go to other pages, and - like I said earlier - preferably to info pages instead of commercial ones.
Of course, if you have an ecom website, most of your pages will be commercial so there's nothing you can do about it in this case. But if you have a blog / affiliate website, try to point the links to the pages that provide (informational) value to the people. This sucks, I know, because we all want to rank the pages that make us money, not the pages that have no affiliate links and no monetization option, but google doesn't want anyone else to make money so we have to either show google the middle finger and black hat the hell out of their algorithm, or dance how google sings.
And if you want to be white hat and dance to how google sings you will need to point the links to the info pages... or at least most of them anyway, I don't think you'll get screwed for pointing 1-2 links to the money pages every now and then
3) mind the anchor texts
I know that you didn't ask about this in your OP, but google's latest update seems to have specifically targeted pages with irrelevantly anchor'd backlinks. So, when you build links, if you point the links to the homepage, try to use branded and URL anchors most of the time, but when you build links to the inner pages try to use exact / partial match anchors most of the time, but - although they're exact / partial match - you still need to vary those anchors a lot so that you avoid triggering the Penguin penalty (or the Panda penalty, I don't remember which one was which, but the point is that you don't want to have too many anchors of the same type for your inner pages, and definitely not too many exact match anchors)
theoretically, yes, you can increase them. But it's not as simple as that.
Link velocity (how many links you build per day / week / month) does matter, like I said, but this is only part of the equation and other important factors need to be considered. For example:
1) building exact number of links at regular intervals is very bad because it creates patterns and one thing that google are very good at is detecting patterns.
What I'm trying to say here is: do not build [whatever exact number] of links per [whatever interval] like clockwork. Vary both numbers to avoid creating patterns. For example, build 1 link today, then 6 links tomorrow, then no links for 3-4 days, then 1-2 more links the next week, then 0 links again, then 3 links the next day, and so on. If you constantly build 2 links today, 2 links tomorrow, then 2 more links the day after tomorrow, etc... well, this screams "link building" to google from the top of this pattern's lungs
2) do not point all of the links to the same page, and especially if it's a commercial page.
Imagine that you have a website with 30 pages and only the homepage of your site gets 2 links per day, like clockwork, for 3 months. Don't you think this behaviour gives away your intentions of manipulating google?
I've already addressed the need to vary the number of links you build, so I'm not discussing it again. But what I will discuss at this point is the need to point the links to multiple pages of your site. I think the bulk of your links should still go to the homepage, but a fair amount of them (say 30-40% of the total backlinks that you have) should also go to other pages, and - like I said earlier - preferably to info pages instead of commercial ones.
Of course, if you have an ecom website, most of your pages will be commercial so there's nothing you can do about it in this case. But if you have a blog / affiliate website, try to point the links to the pages that provide (informational) value to the people. This sucks, I know, because we all want to rank the pages that make us money, not the pages that have no affiliate links and no monetization option, but google doesn't want anyone else to make money so we have to either show google the middle finger and black hat the hell out of their algorithm, or dance how google sings.
And if you want to be white hat and dance to how google sings you will need to point the links to the info pages... or at least most of them anyway, I don't think you'll get screwed for pointing 1-2 links to the money pages every now and then
3) mind the anchor texts
I know that you didn't ask about this in your OP, but google's latest update seems to have specifically targeted pages with irrelevantly anchor'd backlinks. So, when you build links, if you point the links to the homepage, try to use branded and URL anchors most of the time, but when you build links to the inner pages try to use exact / partial match anchors most of the time, but - although they're exact / partial match - you still need to vary those anchors a lot so that you avoid triggering the Penguin penalty (or the Panda penalty, I don't remember which one was which, but the point is that you don't want to have too many anchors of the same type for your inner pages, and definitely not too many exact match anchors)
Wow, this is really useful information, thanks so much. I did not know about this. It is my 3rd month now with a drip feed service. I hope I will not be penalised.
Surely Google will not know there are exactly 4 links a day, if it does not crawl them and index them like clockwork everyday? Some are not crawled and indexed until weeks later I believe.
So is there a link building service you recommend that will 1) build links at regular intervals 2) point to different pages 3) use descriptive anchor text?
Surely Google will not know there are exactly 4 links a day, if it does not crawl them and index them like clockwork everyday? Some are not crawled and indexed until weeks later I believe.
So is there a link building service you recommend that will 1) build links at regular intervals 2) point to different pages 3) use descriptive anchor text?
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I think you will get penalized, you've been too obvious for 2 months for google not to notice. But, no worries, any penalty can be removed by doing the right things
I don't know how they do it, but I think they already know. But hopefully they didn't penalize you yet...
I won't recommend anything because I've not tried any of the services from the marketplace (although this might change soon), and I'm not familiar with services outside of BHW either. I'm sorry that I can't be more useful than this
Hi, I really appreciate this valuable information. I would not have know about this at all without your superb advice.
is there a tool to check if you have been penalised by Google? Or is it just noticing the change of position in Google search results and difference in traffic?
Thanks so much,
LouiseX
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No tool. Just look at your traffic. One day you see the traffic drop significantly. Yeah you got hit
Amelia_Ava
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any penalty can be removed by doing the right things
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sometimes (usually when there's a manual penalty) you will see warnings in your GSC, but otherwise there are no tools that specifically tell you that you've been penalized.
But yes, noticing the drops in traffic, rankings and keywords with tools like Ahrefs / Semrush is also a giveaway
HustleTong
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That's okay. Just don't stick to a pattern.
Build links for a few days and then monitor the site for a week
Build links for a few days and then monitor the site for a week