Why do I have so many backlinks?

[banjoboy]

Hi,

So a couple of weeks ago I put up an affiliate mini-site (5 pages) and started working on back links. My main method has been to comment on blogs in the niche of the product I'm selling.

As I've been going along I periodically use a link: query on yahoo to check how many backlinks I was accumulating. Initially, I would see the count go up more or less in line with the number of comments I'd left.

But over the last few days, yahoo is showing a lot more backlinks than I have created myself. For instance I've probably left a total of 25 or 30 comments, and my backlink count is 93. Stranger still is in that the results on the Yahoo! Site Explorer page for my query show a ton of URLs from a single blog where I left one comment. It's weird, and making me suspicious.

Any idea what's going on?

Thanks!

Daniel

[aussietom]

The reason is that they may have a 'top commentator plugin' and if the blog doesn't get many comments they you may have been listed. Which means that your link was added to each page of the blog.

[banjoboy]

ah that makes sense. Almost all of my backlinks are from the one domain. It's up to almost 300 from that one domain. Crazy. Guess I better keep commenting on that domain before somebody else gets the top commenter spot from me and makes all my back links go poof :)

Thanks for the info!

[seth121]

One backlink per IP address is counted in the google algorithm so don't spend too much time on one website lol oh and be careful because if you have too many backlinks from one site then you could be running the risk of being labeled as a spammer if you get moderated by their content moderators.

[banjoboy]

Ah yes. The google bot won't fall for that will it. Thanks for the info. I do need more quality links in a bad way. Having trouble finding blogs in my niche that aren't nofollow.