Pen Freak

Now, there is one circumstance where you do not want to do this as quickly as possible, and that is if you already have a ranked site, and you are just looking to get a little bit higher in the rankings. There is always the danger that if you already have 50 links and you get 50 more in just a few days, that the search engines could flag your site for spamming to get links, and penalize you by dropping your rankings for awhile. I have seen it happen a couple of times – not often, and not for long. But if you already have a bunch of links, just submit to a few article directories per week, so that you don't build your links up too fast.

Of course, if you have no ranking at all – then you really have nothing to lose by getting a lot of links fast.

There is one more thing you need to be aware of when your purpose is to gain as many links as possible as quickly as possible: you do not want the anchor text on all the inbound links to be exactly the same. If it is, the search engines may assume you paid some company to get your link on a bunch of web sites – and they don't like that. The search engines like to see 'natural' linking – linking that occurs naturally over the course of time. Of course, if you want to get a lot of links fast, you are going to be doing some things, like submitting a lot of articles, which is not necessarily 'natural' in its execution, although it is certainly widespread and one of the better techniques for getting links to your web site.