You cannot expect every time a good result by doing too many good things together. This is highly relevant especially when you are talking about trying too many contents and links for your search engine optimization. In fact, when you plan for any SEO strategy, trying too many good things like content and links will always backfire. It is therefore important to understand the dynamism and ways of using contents and links for effective SEO of your website or blog. So, let’s understand how too many links and contents create problem for you. Or in other words, what are the repercussions of using them.
Demerits of using too many links
Links are regarded as the lifeline of any website or blog; these are the elements which brings you a good traffic. Hence while link building procedure you need to count on them for your SEO tactics. The world of SEO is highly volatile and unpredictable as search engines keep on changing their rules too often.
Hence it is important to have a sufficient level of links to make things easy for the SEO. With links, you define how the website manages its position in search engine results. There are many positive things and aspects about link building, however, the way you use links make the difference.
Too many links in any SEO campaign can certainly do some damages rather than doing something good for your website. Indeed using link building in a proper order can bring good results for your website; however, crossing your limits can hamper your ranking of your websites.
All the major search engines, especially Google suggest having a decent number of links in your pages; however, you are not supposed to go beyond 100 links per web page. There are few SEO experts who believe and vouch that by having more than 100 links can make you a spammer, therefore degrading your website quality. With such low quality of web pages, you can certainly expect to hamper your rankings over the search engines like Google.
Hence if you are serious about your rankings and quality of your website, make sure you do abide the rule of not exceeding beyond 100.
Demerits of using too much content
Certainly content is regarded a key thing, however, it does not mean that you simply overdose with too much of content. If you manage to bulge a huge number of content in just one page, then you have chosen not to index over the popular search engines. The search engine spiders dislike such websites who have cluttered and all type of irrelevant stuff or content in limited space. Hence such sites would never be indexed over the popular search engines. Moreover, with too many content you can create a negative impression with CTR and the conversion rate of your site also seen getting affected to a great extent. Too much of content can overwhelm your visitors and people coming to your sites would simply choose to find your alternative. However, content writing on web is different as compared to the other mediums of writing.
Now you can understand how too many links or too much of content can prove fatal to your website ranking. So while you are considering any SEO strategy, make sure you avoid using too many links or content in your website, otherwise you may be disregarded by the search engines, which means that your traffic is affected. Hence simply follow this rule for effective search engine optimization.
About the author: Alyssa Clarke is a blogger who also happens to be a tech freak. She is always on a look out for latest tech stuff and is currently hunting for some cool tablets. She is a car lover too and her dream cars are Volkswagen up and Rolls Royce Phantom.
Mhelgie Garcia-Victorio says
March 15, 2012 at 7:25 amI never thought that having too much content and links may also give bad effect on your website. Well, I am very lucky to read your post that gives a lot of information and awareness to bloggers and people who are in line of seoing.
saha says
March 15, 2012 at 10:43 amI know about the importance of links in SEO but Reading first time about “Overdose of content and links backfire your website”. Good to read about this topic.
Exactly you cannot expect every time a good result by doing too many good things together. This information is very helpful for me as a newbie. Thanks for sharing important information.
Bishwajeet says
March 15, 2012 at 12:44 pmI don’t think overdose of content will backfire your website unless you have really junk content on your site. Try having some quality in each and every post and see how people will flock to your website.
Rich says
March 15, 2012 at 2:23 pmI actually just worked on one of my blogs yesterday in an effort to better organize and rework the content to avoid a penalty from Google. Thanks for sharing this though; more and more content is constantly being pushed on bloggers and this certainly makes the case as to why “too much of a good thing” can even exist in the blogging community.
Shopping Bags says
March 15, 2012 at 5:44 pmI agree with Bishwajeet, Link will only backfire if the links appear to be low quality or spammy.
Alex from Web Hosting Hub says
March 16, 2012 at 1:17 amHow about e-commerce? How do I optimize an e-commerce site without lot of content? I need to provide my customer with maximum information about my product and gather reviews.
Abrielle says
March 16, 2012 at 1:52 amVery interesting post. I think most of has have this idea that more is good, but sometimes we sacrifice the quality because we aim for quantity. I think in order to be successful, we might need to take it slow but with high quality.
Abrielle says
March 16, 2012 at 1:53 amVery interesting post. I think most of has have this idea that more is good, but sometimes we sacrifice the quality because we aim for quantity. I think in order to be successful, we might need to take it slow but with high quality.
Ahmed says
March 16, 2012 at 1:59 amyour post that gives a lot of information and awareness to bloggers and people who are in line of seoing.
SEO says
March 16, 2012 at 2:26 amYour post is really interesting, I never knew that there should be a limit in building links in each page of the site. I thought that more backlinks would be better especially if all those were quality links.
Build your free mobile website says
March 16, 2012 at 2:51 amRelevancy is one of the key factors for SEO. Web masters probably do not want to get linked with bad neighbours as this could adversely affect their website’s reputation.
Real & accurate content gives green environment.
Ricky Shah says
March 16, 2012 at 5:41 amToo much overdose of irreverent content can backfire. If you’re serving fresh and relevant info then there is no reason for search engine to dislike your site
Shabnam Sultan says
March 16, 2012 at 5:42 amContent needs to be unique and not just stuffed with keywords.As far as linking is concerned you need to get backlinks from site which is relevant to your blog niche.Building 1000 backlink in a day makes no sense and needed to be done gradually.
Cley says
March 16, 2012 at 1:34 pmThis is so informative and very timely! I agree with you, there are so many bloggers that all there had too many links. They didn’t know what disadvantages they will get with that.. Any way, thanks for sharing. 🙂
Polly says
March 16, 2012 at 3:32 pmThe problem with many SEO companies is that they do all the work over a few days so there will a mass of links all pinged in and then nothing for a month. It’s worth checking that links can be dripped in over a regular period of time.
andrad01 says
March 17, 2012 at 10:08 amMany time i faced to many problem in the work of seo . But these are too helpful tips for me really thanks for sharing these topic with us .
Nichole says
March 19, 2012 at 3:30 amIn an ordinary article like for example, not providing a lists of sites, how many links should it normally have?
Brain says
March 19, 2012 at 10:54 amSEO is the technique of increasing web rank in most popular search engine. Search engine ranking system requires excellent combination of content and links on web page. As above given information, the content and links has some limitation otherwise website goes to spamming. It is important for content that it must be unique and doesn’t include same keyword more then 7 times per 100 words in web page.
online home jobs says
March 19, 2012 at 3:31 pmI agree with you lawmacs. Over link building could affect our ranking. Because many cheap link providers provide tons and tons of backlinks at very low price. It is not good to build excessive backlinks so that google can degrade our website ranking,
Waynes Cellphone Diary says
March 19, 2012 at 10:08 pmHmmmmm
They say backlinks are good for a website, but in another essence,they’re saying having more than 100 backlinks per page is bad? Who sets this limitation? GOOGLE?
e-commerce specialist says
March 20, 2012 at 6:49 amYes i agree SEO is the technique of increasing web rank in most popular search engine.
Thanks for sharing this great post.
Los Angeles SEO Guy says
March 20, 2012 at 8:34 amIt’s important that people know you can overdo it!
ann says
March 20, 2012 at 11:44 amMost of has have this idea that more is good, but sometimes we sacrifice the quality because we aim for quantity. I think in order to be successful, we might need to take it slow but with high quality.
Paul Lopez says
March 20, 2012 at 4:09 pmActually it is pretty simple “quality matters not quantity”. Even though Google don’t like the tricks that try to ruin their algorithm. The real point of SEO is to optimize your website for visitors and users. If you do it in the right manner then much of the SEO takes care of itself.
And when it comes to the website promotion then one thing need to said, links are not for any kind of optimization, it is for advertisement of your website.
Ayaz says
March 22, 2012 at 8:28 amGreat post.
I am little confused how more than 100 links make you spammer?
Please clarify about it.. Thanks for sharing
Conveyancing Manchester says
March 23, 2012 at 5:31 amLinking is something that can subtly. One only has to hint at a connection. As 9/11 and Sadam are linked repeatedly yet Bush can say they are not connected. Yet a majority of citizens believed (at one time) that the 9/11 hijackers were Iraqi because of the verbal linkage.
Bespoke Web Design says
March 23, 2012 at 9:56 amIt doesn’t matter whether it’s 10 likes or 5000 links, as long as they are consistant and natural looking then it’s fine. For example this site may get 100 links a day, whereas blogs like mashable and wired would probably be getting thousands a day. it depends how big your website is.
RFPattorney says
March 23, 2012 at 6:44 pmWould be interesting in getting your perspective on Google’s recent comments via Matt Cutts that overly SEO optimized sites will be penalized in search results.
Ayesha says
March 27, 2012 at 7:58 amSearch engine ranking system necessitates outstanding mishmash of content and links on web page. Links are very significant in SEO but it’s right that overdose of content and links backfireour website. This blog tells me new thing hence it’s very helpful for me.
Greatest Films says
March 29, 2012 at 3:18 amNice article Alyssa. I am trying to start up a film blog, but I didn’t realise how much SEO is required to gain a decent readership. This was very useful. Thanks.
WordPress Development India says
March 30, 2012 at 5:38 amYes,i agree with you that too much links also affects your websites rankings.this is very informative post.Thanks for sharing..
Feye says
April 2, 2012 at 9:16 amI very agree with you. Google recently announced about their update, penalty of over optimization. I think too much content is not really a big deal unless the gap between the blog post is too little, it looks more spam.
Shine says
April 2, 2012 at 8:14 pmToo much backlinks can hurt your site? So what you’re saying is when a page already has like 100 backlinks, we should stop working on building links for that page and work on other pages?
My Magnificent Web Page says
April 4, 2012 at 10:52 amYes i agree SEO is the technique of increasing web rank in most popular search engine.
Coupon Codes says
April 5, 2012 at 9:03 amYou need to get the blend right it needs to a mixture of content and links but it needs to work well, it needs to run smooth and the links ideally need to be nofollow if its not an important link then it needs to be nofollow ideally.
Cadillac Deville Steering Pump says
April 5, 2012 at 1:17 pmI never thought that having too much content and links may also give bad effect on your website. Well, I am very lucky to read your post that gives a lot of information and awareness to bloggers and people who are in line of seoing.
Jonathan says
April 7, 2012 at 5:22 pmInteresting thoughts. I think content should be natural or at least look natural. Over optimised sites with high keyword densities run the risk of looking like spam. It’s best to keep it reader friendly.
Caitlyn says
April 16, 2012 at 6:24 amHow would you know when it is too much already? I mean the number of links you have…If it comes from diverse ways, is it okay to have lots of links?
James K says
April 29, 2012 at 9:17 amNow in negative SEO and Penguin update time, any link building has to be planned very well! I don’t think there is any place to linkpackages and blasts anymore!
Okto says
May 9, 2012 at 4:18 amSince Google have new policy with “the Penguin”, everyone absolutely have to be carefull in build their links. Use not too many links is a wise decision
Rental Property Management says
June 3, 2012 at 5:26 pmI don’t agree that overdose of contents and links can be bad for your site. It will only bring you bad effects you link your website to low quality sites.
Tyler says
June 5, 2012 at 7:47 amYou can apply the notion of too many links only if they are not natural and come from non-topic resources. But if they are natural and people just share the info about your resource it is good for your project.
Apple Valley MN says
June 5, 2012 at 4:53 pmI agree with you Tyler. Overdosing your website with unnatural links will surely backfire your site.
Tech Guy says
July 13, 2012 at 5:59 pmSo when you say too much content…do you mean squeezing too much content on one webpage or too much content in general on the site? Do you think posting 4-5 blog posts per day is overdoing it?
sajan kota says
July 14, 2012 at 6:05 amVery interesting post I know about the importance of links in SEO but Reading first time about “Overdose of content and links backfire your website”. Glad to read about this topic.Your information is helpful to everyone.
Online Drug Store says
July 16, 2012 at 6:29 pmYes i agree SEO is the technique of increasing web rank in most popular search engine.
Thanks for sharing this great post.
online drugstore says
July 26, 2012 at 6:43 amYes i agree SEO is the technique of increasing web rank in most popular search engine.
Roy says
July 28, 2012 at 4:52 pmlike in every area in your life, too much never works, but with is the right amount?
Excellent Credit Cards says
August 16, 2012 at 1:03 pmSearch engines pay more and more attention to links pointing to a website. Link building is very important part of SEO. Only quality links can bring a positive difference to a website. Spam and low quality links will bring damage. A website can be penalized by search engines for unnatural linking.
Nina R.P. says
September 5, 2012 at 6:23 pmI thought accumulating inbound links and content was all good, never thought of the negative effects til I read this.
Jerry says
November 5, 2012 at 3:41 pmToo many links indeed damages your website/link building. you have to be ponderate and alternate keywords in order to make a successful link building.
Primedia eLaunch says
November 18, 2012 at 4:28 pmToo many links targeting towards your website doesn’t mean that your website will do good in search engines rather links coming from relevant and quality sites. Same in the case of content. If your website don’t have original, logical, and user friendly (understandable by readers) then your website is in danger. Thanks for this informative post, this post will helps a lot for a website owner to rank their website in search engine.
Julidarma says
February 11, 2013 at 6:06 amSorry lawmacs. I am not too understand about overdose of cotent. Did you mean the content contain more 1000 words or what. I also not undersstand with too many link, did you mean affiliate link, link from adsense, the content links or what? can you explain it?
Suyog says
March 15, 2013 at 11:46 amI agree with your SEO tips.
It will usable for me.
Andrew says
May 25, 2013 at 4:59 amGreat factors about seo. I never thought that we have demerits of using too many links. So we should take care when you build back links.Thanks for share these seo techniques with us.