Millions of links from one domain - unnatural?
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I have a question:
One of the sites that I work for has 3.1 million site-wide links (according to WM Tools) from one domain pointing to us. This domain has a Domain Authority of 93.
We have (according to OSE) more than 3, 500 Domains linking to us. We have a Domain Authority of 88.
In other words, one of those 3,500 domains is highly reputable, and is sending us 3.1 million site-wide links.
This represents 60% of all the links pointing to us (again according to WMTools). Is this something to be worried about? Or delighted about? Would you consider it an unnatural link profile?
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On the balance of your answers it sounds like a positive thing. The site is highly reputable and even though on a another c-domain (which is a great thing) is a 'friend' of ours.
I guess the quantity of links is safe.
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i think this not can be consider spam just for the numbers, you need to think in a few thinks when you concern with punishiment:
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1st of all, are that link coming from Spamming sites?
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Think in a person navigating in a site with alot of links for you, they will fill unconforteble (i'm sorry, a don't find the correct word) about this link?
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You build this links whith ranking proposal?
The google aways (or not) think about user, if you have alot of links coming from a partner or a client is natural and you having nothing to be concern.
Good Luck, and send some of those links for me
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Depends on your site. In isolation it's probably nothing to be worried about.
If all of your links are coming from sitewide's then I'd be concerned.
But if it's a none spammy site with a legitimate reason for linking to you then I wouldn't lose any sleep over it at all.
In fact I'd say it's a big win.
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Post-Penguin it's supposed to be a bit of a concern. On the other hand, we have 12,900 links from a single site, yet we have moved to the #1 position as a result of Penguin and a lot of white hat SEO, of course. I know 12,900 is nowhere near 3.1 million, but the site that links to ours is nowhere near a DA of 93 so I guess you could say it balances out?
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