Would Too Many Scoop.it Backlinks Hurt Our Website?

[enam937]

Hi,

We noticed in our Google Webmaster Tool that we have received a total of 10,162 links (still increasing) from Scoop.it over a period of less than 2 months from January. All these links are linking to our home page, and it is topping the list of "Who links the most" under our "Traffic > Links to Your site" in our Google Webmaster. Our second domain that links the most to us only has 1,831 links to our domain.

According to our marketing service company who posted our brief bookmark content on Scoop.it:

"That just has to do with the page structure of that site. If multiple scoop.it users promote your URL, the link will appear multiple times on each user's page.  Plus, it's a curated site, so the link will be recommended to other users. Scoop.it has an Alexa of <1000 so it's a very popular site. If Facebook was fully indexed by Google (and other search engines and crawlers had full access), you'd see a similar situation.

There's currently no way to exclude specific social sites, sorry for the bad news.

The high # of links from scoop.it are totally normal (and natural for that domain), it's just because of all their internal linking. Google seems to LOVE scoop.it (60M+ pages indexed), so I wouldn't worry."

However, we still don't feel comfortable with the explanation because it appear so very unusual and clearly appear to be 'Unnatural' to us as we concern. I wonder if anyone knows if this would get us into trouble with Google? More seriously, get us deindexed due to 'Unnatural' backlinks in short period of time, from one single domain? Can anybody advise us what could we do with the current situation?

Highly appreciate your advise, and many thanks!

Enam

[NakulGoyal]

Enam, I would not worriota out it. This is a natural link. Think of other social networks like twitter. If you were to tweet your link and 10,000 users retweet it, you have that many links from different pages within twitter.com

this s the nature and structure of the website, don't stress yourself about this. If this was coming from a crappy domain or spammy bloon other it would be something to worry about.

I hope this helps. Have a good weekend.

[enam937]

Hi Nakul, many thanks for your inputs and advice! It's a confirmation and also a peace of mind to hear how other SEO experts think on this issue!

[GuillaumeDecugis]

Hi Enam,

Guillaume here, one of the founders of Scoop.it. I of course concur with Nakul and would add that Scoop.it links are no-follow links which is also an important point.

We're also very attentive to not letting spammers or bots use the platform (you need a legit social network account or clear captcha to create a Scoop.it account). In addition to that, you (or any users) can also flag Scoop.it pages that you feel are suspicious or present unnatural activity. If they are breaching our terms of use, we will immediately take them down.

Feel free if you have any questions.

Guillaume