Today's link building tip. Gradual increase of links.

Google is cracking down on link farms. The way link farms work is that you place a script on your website which generates a page full of links to other members. All other members of the link farm automatically adds your URL to their website. The effect is that you gain hundreds of link within a couple of days.

If you are doing link building and you normally have about 10-20 links a week on the average, then suddenly, you get 200 links this week, that will trigger Google's red flag and you might get de-listed. These signs are a giveaway that you are somehow involved with a link farm.

The same goes with any link building technique that gets you more links than usual. If you got a site wide link from a site with 50,000 pages, that also can trigger google's red flag.

Site wide links may have less negative effect compared to a link farm because site wide links come from 1 IP address while in a link farm, your links come from multiple IP addresses.

So make sure you gradually increase your inbound links and don't mess around with link farms.