pro_seo - 1:12 pm on Oct 27, 2008 (gmt 0)

Re: Getting links too quickly. Check out some of the Google patents. They specifically talk about link acquisition rate. It's not necessarily about getting links too quickly, but the number of links acquired in relation to the current amount of links the site has and the age of a site. A site with 50 total inbound links that suddenly gets 700 new links doesn't look natural and could trip a filter. A site that has 10,000 links that suddenly gets 400 isn't even a blip on the radar.

We need to first understand what is a natural link and what is an unnatural and "fishy" link:

10K links from 10K different domains hosted on separate servers and using anchor variations is natural.

Getting 10K links from 1, 10 or 100 domains with the same anchor is unnatural.

Getting 10K links from 10K different domains hosted on the same C class and using the same anchor is unnatural.

Now, check out of all the above, what pattern does your links acquisition follow...

I can start an industry specific website with 0 links and suddenly post a breaking news that can attract 1000 links overnite..all from diff domains and with variations in the anchors.

Is that unnatural?

Would it call for a Google penalty?

If you think that it doesn't call for a penalty based on "logic" then you can bet that Google is more logical than most of us.