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I'm setting up a database to better track our external links in order to keep an eye on who is reciprocating. On a couple of our pages, there are a surprising number of sites we are linking to that no longer have links to us (on noes!)
My question: will google frown upon me if I simply delete lots of these bad links within the next couple of days? I'm talking about ~50+ links or so.
thanks,
russell
Have you first contacted the sites (of the ones you'd like to continue with) to see if they will replace your recip?
Haste makes waste, I'd say, unless any of the outbound are to farms and whatnot. Drop those like a bad habit.
I guess 50 links is really nothing in the grand scheme of things. We have around 700k inbound links lol. I guess I've answered my own question.. just paranoid of making the wrong step. I think my clean-up is going to help us in the serps.. xfingers!
My question: will google frown upon me if I simply delete lots of these bad links within the next couple of days? I'm talking about ~50+ links or so.
Echoing what others have said, sod Google, provide content for your readers. Scrap dead links, keep links which are useful to your readers. If the search engines like the page, good, if not, that's their bad.
Matt