Matt Cutts on Reciprocal Linking

Brett:
People are all about links but then there's a concern about linking to bad neighborhoods. How do you identify bad neighborhoods? Should you nofollow them or stay away totally?

Matt:
Use your gut. Trading links is natural and it's natural to have reciprocal links. At some level, natural reciprocal links happen, but if you do it way too often, it looks artificial. My advice is to go with your gut and if you're worried, you can use nofollow.

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How many inbound links per day is safe?

January 28th, 2008 by admin

Some internet sources consider that organizing a link campaign, the number of new links per month should be less than 10 % of the overall number of links that the site has. Do you think it is right?
That 10 % refers to all the links ( outbound, inbound )?
Or does it refer to the unique links ( considering several links from the same site a s an unique link)?

My impression, in these days, is that it’s not necessary a big number of links, but few good links per month.
I think that Google is implementing something like a “sandbox” for sites getting too many links in a short term.

I think that is largely dependent on the level of authority your site commands, but even more dependent on the quality of those links.

If you have an established authoritative domain I don’t believe there are negative implications with getting too many links too soon. There are many examples we can point to where a site can naturally gain thousands of links within a few days such as an exclusive news story breaking on a site that gets picked up by the media and blogs, or a new widget getting picked up thousands of customers.

With a newer site I might take a more conservative approach when building links…but the same concept applies.

How many links do you think some site acquired within the first few days it launched? Hundreds? Thousands? And it wasn’t penalized…..

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