Types of backlinks

[rogercbryan]

I havent ever seen a message in Google Webmasters Tool that tells your site has been excluded from our index because you had too many backlinks (or you created too many backlinks in short period of time).
The problem with services is that most decent directories have capthca verification or other methods to prevent automatic link submissions. So the best way is still to build them manually.

This happens more then you think. It isn't because you just have to many. It typically happens because you get to many to fast. If someone tries to throw 10,000 backlinks at a new domain in 30 days its about 90% that they will get blacklisted. Google views all SEO as unethical. They want all search results to be natural. They want links to exist because they are real not because they are generated. So yes people get blacklisted because of to many links.

[veikoh]

let me remain that it takes a little bit time for Google to find a link too. I could do hundreds of links per day but it could take months for Google to index those. See my chart at Free Internet Directory List.

[TerjeSannarnes]

I think that there are two types of links - one way links and reciprocal links. Of course it is better to get high quality one way links.

[lawinc]

Google have been quite open about the fact that their search results are driven by quality content and relevance to their users. As far as relevance goes, that is about producing well optimized web pages which is a topic for another day but content based backlinks seem to be more valuable to Google than just a backlink.

And by content, I'm not referring purely to the anchor text. Traditionally, content oriented links would have been articles, videos, podcasts and press releases. While these still apply, you can also add to that list blog comments, guest blogging and forum commenting IF they are relevant to your niche and contain significant content.

Less likely to have an impact is simply getting a link on a directory or in a profile. However, social bookmarking sits somewhere between these two areas as sometimes social bookmarks appear as just a link with maybe a short comment whereas other times, they carry a more detailed description or review of your website. Then of course, there is the issue of website authority and page rank. Links from authority sites and high page rank web pages are likely to carry more weight.

[rogercbryan]

Google have been quite open about the fact that their search results are driven by quality content and relevance to their users. As far as relevance goes, that is about producing well optimized web pages which is a topic for another day but content based backlinks seem to be more valuable to Google than just a backlink.

And by content, I'm not referring purely to the anchor text. Traditionally, content oriented links would have been articles, videos, podcasts and press releases. While these still apply, you can also add to that list blog comments, guest blogging and forum commenting IF they are relevant to your niche and contain significant content.

Less likely to have an impact is simply getting a link on a directory or in a profile. However, social bookmarking sits somewhere between these two areas as sometimes social bookmarks appear as just a link with maybe a short comment whereas other times, they carry a more detailed description or review of your website. Then of course, there is the issue of website authority and page rank. Links from authority sites and high page rank web pages are likely to carry more weight.

Sorry... not correct... looks like you read it in a book. Practical Application would show you that onsite content is not as important as links and proper coding.

[veikoh]

Sorry... not correct... looks like you read it in a book. Practical Application would show you that onsite content is not as important as links and proper coding.

As sad as it is, I should agree with that based on practical experience. Also I hate liers, like Google asking to put webmasters NOFOLLOW tags which it just simply ignores.

[liquidx]

Yeap I have personally ranked top 10 for an unfinished website that just had the title changed to anchor text you really don't need content. In my opinion SEO linkbuilding depends highly on

1. Your pace of links
2. Quality of the sites you are submitting too

[TerjeSannarnes]

I would say that efficiency of search engine optimization mainly depends on the following factors: the number of incoming links to a website and their quality.