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What is a good ratio of total links to linking root domains?
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 Is 100 total links for every linking domain too high? I suppose I could also look at ratios of sites that are doing well in the rankings. 
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 Hello there, Just to be clear are you calculating 'total links for every linking domain' as follows - total links divided by linking root domains? EG if you had 1000 links from 10 linking root domains you'd have an average of 100 links from each domain. If so, I'd say that figure might indicate that you have quite a lot of sitewide links from domains. Now this in and of itself might not be a problem, however if those links are from sites which are off topic or low quality and/or those links look like paid links they may cause you problems in the future. I'd definitely advocate taking a look at the link profiles of other site which rank well in your niche to see if your link profile looks anomalous by comparison. I hope this helps, Hannah 
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 Good question. I have more than 200 links from google, so i dont think is a problem, (I AM NOT AN EXPERT); but i another thing to ad to the question is if those links from the same domain goes to same url or different urls, so what happens? I had a bad link that point like 2000 links to my main url, i send to prevent a disavow file, it is imposible for me to remove. 
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