Adding Links to my website (hundreds) will it help rank?

[tankman1989]

I am doing a massive revamp of my website that is going to link to A LOT of sites such as the following:
Software & Hardware sites (about 200)
Forum sites (about 50-75)
How to sites (about 30-50)
Blogs about 20
Individual programs about 100

These are all related to topics being discussed so there is relevance and all the links are going to be to "major" sites.

In addition to this, I have signed up for sites like merchant circle, hot frog and have strarted writing unique content for a joomla based blog which will have 2-3 new posts a day.

Should this give me a decent ranking? I know I need links back to my site and I am going to try to use some of those forums that are SEO friendly to give links back to my site.

Aslo, I do hosting and some web design. I have about 10 sites that I host. How do I effectively place a link on their site that says "designed and hosted by (my business.com)". What I have been doing is doing this in font size 8 at the bottom of every page. Is there something that I can do that is better than this?

 

[BostonGeek1]

the outbound links are going to kill your rankings....the hotfrog etc directories will slightly help your local places listings rank.

 

[tankman1989]

the outbound links are going to kill your rankings....the hotfrog etc directories will slightly help your local places listings rank.

Why would they kill it? I've recently read that they don't. They aren't as good as inbound links but better than nothing as long as it is content relevant to the site.

How do you know it is going to kill the site. What about sites that list the top 100 whatever and they list the name and link to the site. Does that kill their ranking? I don't think it does.

I'm not trying to fight I just am getting conflicting stories here

 

[JosephLeo]

While no one is 100% certain how the top search engines rank their listings, you may be doing more harm than good here.

Listing that many links without context relative to the content on those websites may result in a negative strike against your website since it would appear to a search engine as a "link trading network" which many search engines see as "zero content" websites, or maybe even just a spam site.

However, too many inbound links can have the same negative effect. It's all about a balance. You want to keep your inbound and outbound links context sensitive relative to your website.

 

[tankman1989]

While no one is 100% certain how the top search engines rank their listings, you may be doing more harm than good here.

Listing that many links without context relative to the content on those websites may result in a negative strike against your website since it would appear to a search engine as a "link trading network" which many search engines see as "zero content" websites, or maybe even just a spam site.

However, too many inbound links can have the same negative effect. It's all about a balance. You want to keep your inbound and outbound links context sensitive relative to your website.

Thanks Joeseph. What I may do is try to include a piece of technology that each of the manufacturers makes and discuss it and then put a link to the manufacturer in the discussion. while this will take much more time it will give the site a better feel as well. I will do it the way I originally intended (list) and see what happens just to give it a try.

Thanks again!

Oh and Joe, I am still considering the web design thing. I've been sidetracked with many other things lately.

 

[BryanVest]

For SEO you really can't have to many links with the little amount you are getting. I myself have made some of my other sites at many as 5,000 backlinks before getting sandboxed. However, there are tricks and ways to blast your site with even more while carrying alot of link juice still and not getting sanboxed. SEO is a delicate game and you have to know ways to push the limits just as in anything else you do. I myself have had over 50,000 backlinks pointed towards 1 clients site without any negative effect whatsoever.

 

[MobileTechie]

I'm confused. Some comments seem to be referring to inlinks some to outlinks. What is the OP referring to?

 

[Cambridge PC Support]

I'm confused. Some comments seem to be referring to inlinks some to outlinks. What is the OP referring to?

both I think, the first half of the OP is about outbound and the second half is inbound

imo outbound links won't do you any favours at all and relevant inbound links should always help to some extent, just not too many at once

 

[MobileTechie]

Yeah I wasn't aware that outbound links are of any use at all and in fact make your site look more spammy - a bit like those link directories that used to useful for SEO but now aren't.

 

[BryanVest]

Yeah I wasn't aware that outbound links are of any use at all and in fact make your site look more spammy - a bit like those link directories that used to useful for SEO but now aren't.

Yeah google has publicly stated that anything over 100 OBL dont count

 

[BostonGeek1]

READ THIS
http://guides.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-search-engine-optimization

then you'll understand why building a bunch of outbound links is horrible.

 

[BryanVest]

READ THIS
http://guides.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-search-engine-optimization

then you'll understand why building a bunch of outbound links is horrible.

+1 great base guide!