Backlinks - will we be penalized by Google?

[MarketingTips]

My company has thousands (could be 10,000-20,000) of incoming links through our large affiliate network. These links are currently not counting as incoming links from Google because of the format of the links. We are going to be changing the way the links read so they will count with Google, but I am concerned what will happen when we have such a large number of incoming links to our site seemingly overnight. Will this many links get us penalized by Google? Has anyone had an experience with this?

Thanks

[leftybogs]

how did you know that google is not counting it?

[Ka-canor]

Originally Posted by MarketingTips

My company has thousands (could be 10,000-20,000) of incoming links through our large affiliate network. These links are currently not counting as incoming links from Google because of the format of the links. We are going to be changing the way the links read so they will count with Google, but I am concerned what will happen when we have such a large number of incoming links to our site seemingly overnight. Will this many links get us penalized by Google? Has anyone had an experience with this?

Thanks

Where did you heard that news?

[gingercaily]

Any proof about this issue?

[aira]

Originally Posted by MarketingTips

My company has thousands (could be 10,000-20,000) of incoming links through our large affiliate network. These links are currently not counting as incoming links from Google because of the format of the links.
Thanks

Better read this:
When Will Google Backlinks Show?

[searchmaster]

Overnight thing is bit rite....

But google does ount all the links....

Check google webmasters tools

[x3mario]

Google counts and show only the quality links. Quality links are those links coming from relevant site and of course with a high PR.

[bodhost.co.uk]

It's not necessary that Google only counts the link with PR it also count the links if the website is good.

[dee_el07]

links format? like what? All I know is that Google counts all backlinks (IMO), its just that they don't show all your backlinks when your checking it.

[bodhost.co.uk]

Originally Posted by dee_el07

links format? like what? All I know is that Google counts all backlinks (IMO), its just that they don't show all your backlinks when your checking it.

In the case of PageRank for example, a link between two pages will bring more PageRank if both contexts are identical. In fact, the context may only be based upon

• the title of the page A linking to page B,
• the anchor text (text used to establish the link within the <A> HTML tag).

Then it is better that page A talks about the same subject as page B, and that the anchor text comprises the best selected keywords for page B. The optimal format of a text link of a site A towards a site B must be the following:

<a href="http://www.siteB.com/pageB.htm">put here the optimal keywords for site B</a>

When you ask to another webmaster to make a links exchange, give him (her) a code like this one, stuffed with all your keywords (in general the text should be the title of your site).

Do not forget that to optimize the contribution of a link in terms of PageRank, the page which will contain the link to your page must have a good PageRank (let's say more than 4), and must have the least number of links. Check for example that the links page is not orphan, and that it does not contain a META tag prohibiting the crawlers from indexing it...
If you prefer making a banners exchange, the image must contain an ALT attribute with your keywords:

<a href="http://www.siteB.com/pageB.htm"><img src="thumbnail.png"
alt="put here the optimal keywords for site B"></a>