Sudden increase in backlinks with "Link Reclamation": Any risk from Google?

[vtmoz]

Hi all,

We failed to redirect the links of our old website versions to new website pages for years and we are planning to now redirect all those old links to new in the process of link reclamation. This activity may increase the back links suddenly or steadily. If there is sudden increase in backlinks, will it hurts us? What's Google's stand?

Thanks

[VeroBrain]

Hi Viz,

As far as know there is no written or spoken rule on that regard. Said that, for me the safest option is to do it calmly.
I consider risky to appear overnight with a bunch of links.

If I have to do it, I would chose a few, then I would wait for the indexicing. After that I would verify the consecuences, if any.
This way, in case something goes wrong I will know what caused what. Good luck.

Mª Verónica

[vtmoz]

Hi Verónica,

Thanks for the answer. I don't think what you suggested is technically difficult to implement. We have thousands of redirects to be done. And anyway all these redirects will not be noticed by Google overnight or backlinks will be increased all of a sudden. The different source links which are generating these backlinks will get indexed at different times varying from days to months. So it'll take 1 day to 3 months to get notified by Google about the increase of these backlinks. But there will be risk if Google can see all the redirects at one shot which I am not sure about. This is my hypothesis. Please let me know if you have different ideas on this.

Thanks