Does using "pring2web" hurt SEO?

[BenRWoodard]

I've never really seen this before but one of my clients has 4000+ links from Print2Web.  Their rankings are falling back a bit but I'm wondering if this is part of the problem. They don't seem to say their service is about SEO so I'm not so sure this is counted as spam or not.  The main concern is that the next closest number of links from one site is only 97.

Has anyone heard of this service?  Can someone tell me from experience if using this service has hurt SEO efforts?

Thanks!

[Andropenis_Australia]

4000 links from any site would look a bit unatural. Over at the google forums they preach that inbounds links will not hurt you unless you have previously got a boost from them, and if they get discounted you will then lose any benefit they gave. But 4000 links could look intentionally shady.

[Dr-Pete]

Tend to agree - it's hard to speak in generalities, but 4000 links from one site are likely to get devalued. Even if it's a great site and relevant links, multiple links from the same domain count less and less as you go. Getting 4000 links even from the New York Times wouldn't be nearly the same as getting 4000 links from different sites (probably not even the same as 40 decent sites). At worst, it could start to look manipulative and result in a penalty, but that's pretty uncommon based on just one site.