Do links from Wordpress Blog hurt search engine rankings?

Shocked at how many backlinks 1 wordpress generates

[hermosa]

I went into my Google Analytics an looked at backlinks. I was shocked that for a new page on my website I had created a month ago, almost 1,000 backlinks were showing from my Wordpress blog.

I had added that link to the description of my business, a menu on the sidebar and a couple of blog posts. Seems that Wordpress replicated them for every category even those unrelated to:

"blue widgets location"

I immediately removed everything except the links on the home page and a couple of blog posts but the backlinks still show in Google.

How often does Google update search engine rankings? How long does it take for a backlink to disappear from the Google backlink list after it has been removed.

What wordpress links is it safe to include?

A blog that doesn't link to my website is useless but I am not clear on what links will cause a problem.

[lorax]

Not as a general rule of thumb they don't. But you can create situations where it would. Always test and check what you build.

Google updates the SERPs at their own leisure - no one knows for sure when the SERPs will be updated but they are refreshed pretty often.

[Planet13]

Hi there, hermosa:

I would strongly encourage you to put your blog on the same domain as your main site. It is better for your SEO.

Also, you didn't say how many pages you had, but if you were getting 1,000 backlinks, then really you should have 1,000 pages.

If you don't have 1,000 pages on your blog, but it was giving 1,000 backlinks, then there is a chance that you have canonical issues with your wordpress blog (meaning that a single page is accessible by more than one URL).

[hermosa]

No I have about 75 blog posts. Some of the links are coming from pages where the URL is not even on the page. Not sure where the links are coming from. Perhaps it is from the categories. Pages re not accessible from more than one URL.

I have removed the links to specific pages from the menus.

Too late to move my blog. I have had it since 2008. At that time people were advised to put the blog on a separate page to pass Google juice on to the main website. There is no way that I am going to move 75 posts to which there are links all over the internet.

I do not want to debate whether the blog on the site or off the site is better for SEO in this topic.