Facing Link Crisis

[Sequelmed]

Hi Link Heroes,

I have just come across a link crisis on my site. There is a sharp and sudden rise in No. of Links. Latest details are as under:

• External Followed Links                582
• Total External Links                      710
• Total Links                                  30548
• Followed Linking Root Domains   92
• Total Linking Root Domains        126

Can somebody come to help that :

• What are the reasons for sharp rise in total number of links and
• How it impacts my site (I notice a drop in DA)
• What are the solutions

Tanveer

[webmethod]

Hi Tanveer,

It's hard to answer your questions without seeing the raw data. I presume these are external rather than internal links, and that they are genuinely new as opposed to only just having been discovered. I would start with going to Webmaster Tools, downloading your latest links and having a look at where they are coming from.

There could be a number of reasons for this, and so there's no point me speculating and you're right to investigate further. Using a link profile checker such as cognitiveseo.com will give you a clearer idea on the quality of any new links you acquire.

Feel free to post more information if you need,

Regards

George

[MonicaOConnor]

Do you actively work on your link profile? Is there a company you have hired to build links? What were your total links at the time of your last index?

Definitely investigate your site in GWT. If you have more than a 10% increase in links that is truly a crisis as you put it. Definitely look into it further. It could be that they have been there and were just recently discovered because of the updates that took place in October.

[JVRudnick]

There was a time when such huge influxes of links meant nada to Google et al...my own blog site went up 25k in one day and didn't hurt us a bit (story here ) but that may not be true today....

And as others have said, there's not enough data here to make a valid opinion as I see it....i.e. we need more to try to help, eh!