Question about "spammy" backlinks

Hello all, so at first this is my first post on this forum, a lot of thanks for all the infos present on this forum!

So to understand my question there's the context:

I have some websites to present my services, they're all kinda linked, and I can do all the work in my workshop.
In total, I have 4 website for my services.

Then, I played a little with n8n and automation, so I finished with 3 more "news" site. These sites are FULLY automated, on some randoms branchs.
These are thematic news sites, the only thing they do is taking a Free Rss flux, and doing an article/post under WP with it. Actually there's 2 posts/site/day so 6 posts in 24h

As these were at first some fun projects, I didn't care.

But here is the plot:

EACH post now have 4 linkable banners for each of my company website.
I did it for fun, but in the long run, there's like 140 posts in total on news sites, so I have like 4x140 links to my website.

To avoid some Google problems, I labelled there banneers as "sponsored links"

So my question is:
So google know that these are my websites, and I'm not trying to hide my links like with some anchor text or anything.

But could it still be considered as heavy spammy content?
And second question, I still see my posts websites in Ahref backlink checker (on my company website). So the -sponsored isn't used by ahref filters?

Ideally, I wan't to keep for fun my news websites, but I would like to know if this a risky strategy

Even with “sponsored” labels, large scale automated site wide links from low value pages can still be treated by Google as unnatural or low quality signals depending on context.
Ahrefs will still detect and count those links because it reports backlinks, not Google’s attribute handling or filtering.

A lot of thanks! So the best thing to do will be giving up on banners on my post sites I think?

DaWebNoob said:

So the best thing to do will be giving up on banners on my post sites I think?

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Tone it down.

You don’t have to remove everything, just don’t spam it on every post.

Keep a few links where it actually makes sense.

Google probably ignores most of that anyway ...sponsored helps, but too many links from the same network won’t add much value

no. don't. it will kill your seo at google.

Labeling them as sponsored helps, but sitewide banner links from auto-generated sites can still look manipulative. I’d nofollow or reduce them, Google usually ignores low-quality links anyway, so the risk outweighs the benefit.

keeping it real, this setup screams footprint. automated content + repeated banners = weak signal, maybe even negative over time. sponsored just tells google don’t pass juice, not “ignore this”

If all those links are sitewide and coming from low-value/auto-generated content, they can still look unnatural even with “sponsored” tags so they won’t help much and could become risky over time. It’s usually safer to keep them limited and focus on a few relevant, editorial-style links instead.