Backlinks from archived content? SEO penalty?

[JABacchetta]

I'm curious, if I go to webmasters and suggest a change to an article in their archives (convincing them that the new link offers more value to their readers), how would Google look at that?

It seems to me that if a two-year-old article all of a sudden gets a new link, it might look fishy, and might even bring penalties with it.

Thoughts?

[FedeEinhorn]

Nope, I think you are wrong.

That is honest link building as you will be ultimately providing better information. Just don't over do it.

If you find it to be an easy task then probably your content isn't worth linking. But if you are really providing better info, then webmasters might be pleased to link to a better source.

[MoosaHemani]

Why would it will be a problem? I mean if webmasters convince they will defiantly going to link to the source you are trying to promote and I think this will not really a problem for Google as well as you are providing better information.

This is similar to Content Refresher and Google is cool with this tactic!

Hope this helps!