Will this linking pattern look unnatural?

[rajraj]

If the site has all the incoming links basically coming from blogs, directories, guestbooks and few PR4 sites, and has no outgoing links, will it looks un-natural to Google? If yes, will google penalize such sites?

[webdoctor]

What's good enough for visitors is usually good enough for Google.

no outgoing links

Why does this site have no outgoing links? Purely from a visitor's perspective, this is a little odd..

[annej]

There has been some thought that outgoing links to quality sites may even help rankings. Even if they don't help with rankings they will impress visitors.

[V_RocKs]

Outgoing links to relevant websites with the anchor text you are trying to get as a keyword is a good thing.

[rajraj]

Thanks guys for your answers. So as far as I have understood, is that have some outgoing links with the related sites and have a hundreds of incoming links.

I have almost finish my work with my new site and thinking of keeping outgoing/incoming links ratio as 10/100.

I guess this won't look odd or fishy.

(Reason I m doing this, as the keywords for this site is extremely competitive and hence the experiment :)

[webdoctor]

and have a hundreds of incoming links.

It's not just about the number of incoming links, it's about the quality of those links as well.

You don't links to or from "bad" sites. Read Matt Cutts' recent post [mattcutts.com] and you'll see that links to and from the wrong kind of site can get you into serious difficulties.

[soapystar]

I see no evidence that quality links count. I see spammers happilly ranking well simply by linking back from sites they control as non-recips. They are not quality links. These are low quality links by any measure and they are not discounted or recognised as from within a network.

[webdoctor]

I see no evidence that quality links count.

You're saying you wouldn't expect to observe any difference between

1. one link from [news.bbc.co.uk...] to your site

and

2. one link from www.all-your-viagra-belong-to-us.com/sub/dir/with/thousands/of/scraped/pages.html to your site

?

Come on ;-)

[soapystar]

thats not quality thats themeing and neighbourhoods. You can boost a niche site by placing links to it from a bunch of ontopic but low quality pages and sites. I see no evidence that the low quality nature of those site is taken into account.

[rajraj]

I think the quality of the of links does matter to the certain point, but the link from the low quality does matter as well.

You don't links to or from "bad" sites

I remember, I had done link exchange with this sites year ago and he gave me hundreds of links (spam) from his 8 others sites and each sites giving me about 10 to 12 links. I had removed his links from my sites long time back but he is still linking to me till date.

Although this have not done any harm nor benefitted my (previous) site, but I guess we cant do anything about the other site spamming with the link to us.

Its just that, its better to do some research about the site you are exchanging link with :)

Anyways, not going off-topic, I think I will keep the outgoing link with the related site in the ratio of 10/100 (as mentioned in previous post). I thinks its better way of go about link building rather than having NO outgoing links at all.

Thanks once again for the replies.

[mattg3]

Maybe one should occasionally reiterate that quality is a bit of a vague term:

g -> define:quality

I like this definition :) that above query throws out:

Status summary. Scale runs from 0 - 10. This value is determined by 'sigma = int(VEL_RES/VEL_RMS)'. If 'sigma' is 3 standard deviations or less, the QUALITY value is '0' and the image is clean and sharp. If 3sigma < VEL_RES <= 4sigma , QUALITY = 3 If 4sigma < VEL_RES <= 5sigma , QUALITY = 4 If 5sigma < VEL_RES <= 6sigma , QUALITY = 5, etc. ...

[soapystar]

Status summary. Scale runs from 0 - 10. This value is determined by 'sigma = int(VEL_RES/VEL_RMS)'. If 'sigma' is 3 standard deviations or less, the QUALITY value is '0' and the image is clean and sharp. If 3sigma < VEL_RES <= 4sigma , QUALITY = 3 If 4sigma < VEL_RES <= 5sigma , QUALITY = 4 If 5sigma < VEL_RES <= 6sigma , QUALITY = 5, etc. ...

thats what I said :)