Some people just don’t like free backlinks, even if the number of backlinks are over 2000 :) Here is an email I got recently:
Yes, as requested I removed his backlinks from the blog. I guess he is like a Rupert Murdoch.
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Can’t believe this !! A person who has 2000 backlinks did not want backlinks which are absolutely free.
Maybe he is a fake or concorrent?!
Very funny:)
Lol, he is definitely crazy :D
PD. Your blog is amazing, iam a suscribir email, but i dont speak much english.
Greatings!
That’s gotta be the best comment of all times. Too funny! Yes, Mr. Murdoch, too many backlinks are a bad thing. haha
Either this person knows a lot about back linking then the rest of us…or he knows nothing about the importance of back linking. I am not sure which. Could you possibly email him back and ask him why he does not want the 2000 free backlinks?
Hye, Ades.
If he/she didn’t like the backlinks, just change it to mine. Haha. This is the first time I heard about this. Very funny or he/she has his/her reason to do that?
This is funny. LOL. This man might be afraid to google. Doesn’t he know that the more link the better?
That certainly is a first… is it possible that it is a fake email of someone trying to get someone else’s name banned?
Till then,
Jean
One has to chuckle at this naive mail. If the links was from a spammy source I would understand, but Ades’ Blog has a great reputation overall. Talk about looking a gift horse in the mouth!
That’s weird. While all the people loves backlink but this guy has different idea. Maybe just change his name to my name as top commentator :D
maybe he/she is afraid of sandbox :)
LOL He thinks that backlinks are badlinks? :)
Hmmmmm, Its really make me crazy, why he want to remove backlink from your blog?
Yah, bing just released guidelines saying not to get a ton of links really fast like that. Which is stupid in my opinion because if they penalize a site for that, that means that competitors can do that to each other to hurt the others site performance. Which should never be a part of any serp’s algorithm.
who is this man??? i heard it first time in my life that someone is complaining about getting back links :)
like stew said, maybe he is fake or he afraid to get Google Sandbox. But it’s still funny for me
Lol, he is definitely crazy :D
erk..weird guy..
Maybe is this the reason: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/11/hard-facts-about-comment-spam.html ? (Abusing comment fields of blog sites is a risky way of getting links to your site)
I don’t think he/she is being silly at all. Although Google demerits the authority from sitewide links (2000 links from the same domain will be treated as a single link by Google), the other search engines are not so clever. Getting 2000 links in one day from the same domain could cause problems for a new site, and perhaps he has recently lost some rankings and is trying to fix the problem?
Hahahahahaha!!! Really hilarious post. Really, some people do hate backlinks! It’s one of the best articloes I’ve seen so far today!
Somebody who hates backlinks must surely be from some other some alien planet in the Universe!
@SeoKid that means I have to settle the matter? google what is doing? just recommended me?
haha..that kind of people still exist? haiya..
Abdes, it is true. Some people don’t like because they fear this can hurt their rankings. While top commenting widget can help, but we are not sure if they can give us rankings or get us ban for quick links.
So many are skeptical and do this. It is good that you have responded to that person and removed the links.
Hi!
its me who wrote that mail to Ades!
I know all about importance of backlinks, i have some knowlegde of SEO,
page that had all those links was droped from top page in google, because in one week link count from 50 went to over 2000 so, when i Tried rank for that keyword i had 50 links from lot of pages with my keywords in anchortext, but then there is 2000 links with not my keyword so google didnt likeed that.
So this is my experience with link from blog top commentators plugin,
its not bad, i use it for other websites, but im not going to use with pages that i want rank for specific keywords, tho i was in top 1 in yahoo ;)
so you all still think that im from Other planet!?!
But now im back in rankings ;)
Wow. Thanks for your explanation Valencia. I need to learn more about SEO. Thanks to you too Ades for making this post. Awesome! =)
i know a lot of web dont have backlink if he keyword and they are in the top and have hight traffic.
I’m surprised about this misconception that backlinks could somehow hurt your website. If that were true, you could hurt your competitor’s websites by creating “bad backlinks” to them.
I know him, he know what he do..
So, i just need to “create” a backling of my competition to harm him? LOL
might be have a reason to do that. HOho..
I think he feared by seeing lost of backlink from your blog. I also see lots of backlink from your blog.
@Valencia,
Its great that you replied to this post. I am also a webmaster and SEO. You are skeptical as your link count shot from 50 to 2000 in just a week or so. To be frank Google is aware of this. Google knows that these links are from top commenter widget and from the same place in the same website. So they will devalue them and credit you accordingly.
You pointed out that Google does’t valued it. I have a different thought on this. G will not matter this and rank accordingly. You also said that you r ranking was gained once Ades removed the links. This is also not that much valid.
While rankings can change from time to time. This fact can not change rankings this much!!!
These are my thoughts. Guys, any thoughts further on this?
@mini laptop,
Hi, thnx for reply.
I work with more pages that are similar, and i usually track where i put links and how its effecting my ranking, and when my rankings changed, all i did was this blog commenting, there was some other cases when i did things that google didn’t liked, and after removing bad links, next time G indexed those links page was back. But one page for one keyword is out already for few months, and i don’t know what i did wrong :D and i didn’t wanted wait and see that this will affect my rankings for a longterm, and i just wrote mail to ades.
Thnx for sharing your experience!
@valencia: Yes, it is really annoying. Sometime we will not know what G thinks. It is good that Ades is active in his blog and removed his links. Some blog owner check their admin panel once in a month. And in that case we are screwed :)
@mini laptop,
it looks that you have a some god knowledge of seo, maybe you want share your top 5 things you do for seo?
it would be interesting for me what other people do not just read what should be done!
@valencia: Thanks for your compliment. These are the top things that I do for websites. They are based on the flow in which I start my SEO work.
1) I will prepare contents and upload the website.
2) I will write some interesting articles and post it in article website. Mainly I post it in ezinearticles.
3) Do some social bookmarking.
After the above three steps the website will get cached for sure. Now here is the toughest part. Link building.
> I will do some dofollow high PR commenting on some reputed forums.(Also do some low PR relevant blog commenting simultaneously)
> Now directory submission and profile link building.
> Meanwhile update the content and submit few more articles.
By this time the website should get good serps. If not continue the above process untill you get results. There is no stopping to this!
But sometimes we never know what is happening. We just need to experiment and see :(
Above technique works well for websites and for blog it is little different. I request you to go through this post -> http://www.adesblog.com/2009/11/30/edward-khoo-on-bloggers-block/#comment-125648
Thanks again and all the best for your project!
David
@mini laptop
Thnx for sharing this, yes its a grate plan, my is a little bit different. And how you do social bookmarking? what the best sites, that get indexed fast and is worth to submit? again just your experience and thoughts?
;)
Eduard
Hi Eduard,
Regarding your query for social bookmarking -> I have one great suggestion on this. Prepare a document about your website and upload with your link in scribd.com
I bet you will get indexed in less than 20 minutes with the above idea. Sometimes I got indexed in less than 4 minutes.
Some other great social bookmarking websites are folkd.com, digg.com, mixx.com.
Hope that helps you. I fear Ades, might think that we are bumping this post now :) Is it Ades :) ????!
I think he has great knowledge about backlinks or free 2000 backlinks is not a big thing for him.
i thing its all about sandbox. and maybe he/she dont know the value of backlinks :)
@GDI Blog
take a look at comments, i explained there.
Lol that is a funny e-mail. He obviously has no clue about how backlinks help. Of course there is also the possibility that some competitor faked this e-mail. Or maybe he’s just super paranoid after reading someone say that Google doesn’t like sitewide links.
Again, if backlinks could be “bad,” then a company could use a “bad backlinks” campaign to hurt a competitor’s website rankings in Google. I’ve never seen any evidence that Google would allow that.
What he/she is think of? Actually you can see on the e-mail itself how dumb he/she is. :)
I can’t believe that there is people like this in blogopshere, in my area all the blogger fellow urge for backlinks. Perhaps this guy doesn’t like to improve the SEO for his blog though.
Regards,
Lee
May be his blog is is different theme, so he do not want to get backlink from your blog.
Is he thinking backlinks are not good? I don’t get him
That is hilarious, who doesn’t want backlinks, guess it was too many links for him or maybe they mistyped the domain.
I can not believe this email…are you serious I know people that are paying money to get backlinks and this guy does not want them for free? Interesting…very very interesting. Maybe he just does not want them from your site…did you take it as an insult or what?
he is interested in backlinks :D
I don’t understand why that person don’t like backlinks. Maybe he need to learn more what is good thing about backlinks.
Backlinks are important but most important point is taking correct backlinks from correct sites.
That’s gotta be the best comment of all times. Too funny! i thing its all about sandbox. and maybe he/she dont know the value of backlinks :D
@valencia, some of the comments were too harsh, i apologize for that.
i heard getting too many backlink from a website is not usefull for SEO.Because of that people started to buy articles from blogs.
?f the site is new may be he had scared about Sandbox.
I’m just glad to know you were willing to take Valencia off when they asked. It’s his/her blog to do with as they want and it doesn’t really matter what anyone else thinks so long as the two worked it out.
Dwippy
Thanks Valencia, David and Ades, this is very interesting, I have a few sites that rank well for my name but not my keyword because I used to sign with my name, so 2000 links with the wrong keyword could harm your ranking.
I first time read this type of message, don’t like free backlinks. I can’t understand what’s problem for that.
I have first time seen such kind of people who really not loves back links, actually google is really so smart as it can track anyone’s backlink source, so at one point this should be.
Not sure if I’m too late but would love to replace him on the list of top commentators.
To be honest, Google algorithm is not that simple. In any case, the worse thing that could possibly happen is “nothing”, if they were to ever do anything.
Can’t imagine my competitors putting me out of business online by simply putting my site on link farms. Simple logic isn’t it?
Ya!You are right here.But I think Search engines often use the number of backlinks that a website has as one of the most important factors for determining that website’s search engine ranking, popularity and importance.
Thanks
Raj……..!
SEO is dead :)
Noooo, that is not possible…not at all LOL! Is this a real comment or just an invented one? If it it real, I agree with 4dm saying that SEO is dead hehehehe
Free links do not exist, all the same for creation of posts will take time and internet.no however any work is not in vain, to give us a link to untwist the resource
That is a bizarre email indeed. It could be like others have suggested that he is trying to get another website banned, but who knows. I have never heard of someone rejecting free links before lol.
On another note I would love to see top commentator brought back to your blog Ades. I miss it as I am sure many others do as well. Anyhow keep up the great work.
- Robert