Does Google Penalize for too many inbound links

[Cleo8]

Hi All,

I wanted to ask your opinions about this Googles penalty for having build too many inbound links in a short period of time

webmasterworld.com/google/3084915.htm

I need to do link building for a client and plan to simply build 10-20 links in a span of 3-6 months. Is that okay?

I plan to get links from good sources NOT blogs or forums. My client sells specialty electronics so i will only go to electronics review sites.

At any rate, this is a small site with currently 50 inbound links. will 20 additional links from quality websites that write orginal electronics reviews be a problem you think, in a 3-6 month window?

[Jordan]

I've built sites and received thousands of back-links in short periods of time. I've never been penalized and I never heard about this until now. Thanks for pointing it out, I'll read more into this.

Google doesn't penalize for inbound links..but from too many clicks from the same source..for example if the same person kept clicking the ads one after another..even if the person clicking is not the webhost.

[dirkfirst]

Originally Posted by littlefranciscan

Google doesn't penalize for inbound links..but from too many clicks from the same source..for example if the same person kept clicking the ads one after another..even if the person clicking is not the webhost.

I think he is talking about the inbound links, not the ad clicks.

[DevilsCharm]

I thought you could penalized if you got a really huge amount in a short time. But they would probably have to have the same anchor text and other characteristics for SEs to have a reason to penalize you. 10-20 over one week would not get you penalized, by the way.

[Gracia]

Nah that will be completely fine - I think you will find that these penalties from Google are a result of thousands of links within a couple of days. If you are just doing some advertising on a relatively small budget you will be completely fine.

For 99% of us out there our advertising budgets and methods of obtaining links aren't in anyway endanger of getting us dropped from the Google index. This more relates to those with massive advertising budgets and/or those who obtain their links in SPAMish ways.

[DevilsCharm]

You have to buy a massive, MASSIVE amount of links, all of which are incredibly similar, to get penalized.