How does G regard IBL vs. Domain Name Visibility

Will I be penalized?

[newborn]

Ok guys theres something i want to know. How exactly does G view the difference between a IBL such as hyperlink text from someones page top my website vs. my wensite without http: //. I ask this question because in Google I see only a few IBL. However I have 800 www.mysite .com. Not so much of great visibility but suppose I get to 80,000. This is great visibility right.

But how does that compare, will google penalize me for too much visibility?

[Robert Charlton]

newborn - If I understand your question correctly, you're asking whether Google will consider you more visible if you provide more links from your own site to itself.

First... it sounds like you're using the Google link operator, which only shows a small sampling of the links that Google sees, definitely not all of them.

Go to the Hot Topics thread pinned up at the top of the Google Search Forum first page. Inside, you'll see a link to the following thread, which I suggest you read:

Google link: operator - it's not like other search engines [webmasterworld.com]

Secondly... you ask about counting links. More is not necessarily better. If you receive a great many links from any one domain, it's very unlikely that Google credits them all. It's even less likely that Google will credit a great many links from your own site to itself. I'd focus on building good content to get other sites to link to you naturally.

[newborn]

No Robert, what I mean is suppose you just type in google "webmasterworld.com". You get like 2,050,000 returns. Albeit say only 250 are from different sites. If you look for link:www.webmasterworld .com then you get a 18,000 again some being same site links.

What I want to know is some sites have 0 returns when you use link function yet thousands when you just search for the domain name only - majority from different websites. These do not necessarily have the http and the www. before it just the domain name like webmasterworld.com.

What I want to know is really does this help in Google Rankings and how will this play out in the future algo updates.

I ask this question is because I am guilty of just that. I have a website 500+ pages started out real slow, little or no SEO knowledge, I got some tools and now ranking has improved with just a few changes i made. But I am guilty of being one of those sites with hundreds of my domain name out there yet 0 IBL.

I have a great type in name and now i want to advertise in local newspapers. They have a soft copy that they allow Google to spider in PDF and it gets indexed, these pages will have my domain name in them. I know most of these pages will fall into the supplemental index at best though. However do you think this will help me in the SE Ranking?

I know that I will be "all over the web" thats the general idea to boost traffic, but as far as SEO will this phenomenon have any impact whatsoever?

[buckworks]

If your domain name is mentioned on another site but it's not actually a link, it won't help your SEO.

The name exposure might help your general branding, though.

[newborn]

Pretty much what I thought, If thats the case then its worth it. Soon enough with so much content webmasters will link naturally.

But on another note it might not help in SEO but will it 'HURT' my SEO. This is of course G related. I would love to know right. This is key to my strategies going forward.