When with Google+ bio area backlinks get devalued if we have everybody link to our site
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Hello,
As you know, Google+ bios, if they have a link in them are dofollow. I'm doing a link building campaign, and we already linked one of our Google+ pages to our home page and top 2 articles.
My question is, to get links, can we have family and friends add links in their bios too for a total of 6 links to the home page (6 people) and some links to our articles?
Or will Google devalue them because we are family and friends? How many is too many?
Thanks.
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Google is pretty clever, it also going to no doubt pick up if they are friends and family compared to employes etc. I would be careful with it and weigh the risk to reward, I can't say they would devalue them as its hardly on a huge scale However would it be relevant as that's what Google always like to know.
You can always work on making you profile (presuming you have a link) more authoritative by getting more people in your "circles".
Good luck.
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