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I have a website that is 1 year and 2 months old that recently came out of the sandbox(2 months ago). About 4 months after the launch, I stopped building links, and sat back until the site came out of sandbox. In the meantime, I built good relevant content and the site's forum has been doing moderately well(>1000 threads now). During this course of time, the site picked up a few (10-20) natural links(including one from Dmoz and 2 from Wiki). The website now shows 15,000 pages in google and PR5...if thats of any concern.
There are a number of blogs in my industry that allow advertising, but I am skeptical about advertising there as the links will be sitewide.
My question is, how should I proceed? Would getting sitewide links raise any flags in google?
Next moves keep building links and use your blog if you have one, if not start one today.
All the best
B
My personal believe (based on a bit of experience as well) is, that linkbuilding is something you should do in the beginning of a site, later you can target big sites that have refused to swap when you were little, but active, "normal" linkbuilding - I do that only with young sites. Good luck,
W.
I dindn't go hard on link building at the beginning because I wanted to stay away from being pushed into the sandbox, or trigger any other filters. Moreover i was certain that i would get some natural links. How many of them?..I wasn't sure..had to wait and see.
The problem now is that established sites in my industry make a fortune...so they can afford buying links anywhere they want. And why should they bother exchanging links with sites like mine that pose a threat to their business?
