What happens to rankings when links are pulled down

[freshpromotions]

We've had a top ranking site up for over a year. The SEO who began the project plugged in a number of links which he is currently trying to blackmail us into paying for again. In the meantime we have been building a wide range of other quality links, so we are not dependent on the links we look likely to lose

My question is, do you automatically lose all PR and credibility assigned by these links or is there a residual factor which the site retains?

[axxe]

If you have a big amount of your own links so it won’t be a big problem and I think it will not effect on your PR, but if your first SEO has most of your links then where could be some problems with PR.
But don’t worry about it. It should not affect your search engine rankings. The most important is the content of your site and no SEO can take it away from you. So try updating your site content regularly, add articles to other related sites and forget that PR.
Today it is rather easy to obtain PR but it does not mean that it will highly affect your SE rankings.
I know lot’s of good sites that has low amount of links, but still has high positions in most of SE.

Good luck.

[SEOteam]

Should you have fewer links and some of them are deleted, then you would likely lose keyword ranks, provided other factors remain unchanged.

In your case, you would not likely to lose your ranks since you are substituting links continuously.

For site with many links, deletion of few links woill not affect the site's ranks... :)

Thoughts?

[freshpromotions]

Thanks Guys.

Your advice is correct. We have actually risen futher in the ranking since the seo installed links were broken. Our page rank has actually gone up and traffic has increased by over 30%