This site is for sale, Learn More

Links To Other Web Sites Can Hurt Your Rankings

Google's Bad Neighborhood Links Policy

Originally Published: November 14, 2006

What Are Bad Neighborhood Links?

  • Free for all links pages (FFA)
  • Link farms (automated linking schemes with lots of unrelated links)
  • Known web spammers

An Official Google Statement About Bad Neighborhood Links

  1. There is no relation between outbound links and Google's supplemental index.

    "It’s unlikely that your outbound linking is causing your pages to be listed in the supplemental, rather than main index."

  2. Google looks for bad neighborhood linking patterns

    "Also, be assured that we’re not looking to penalize folks for a 'bad' link here and there. Rather, our algorithms are tuned to look for patterns of 'egregious' linking behavior… both on individual sites and in the aggregate."

  3. You should check the links on your web site

    "It's certainly in your users' interest that you regularly audit outgoing links on your site (especially prominent ones) to ensure that you're not losing folks' trust by sending them to inappropriate places or 404 pages.
    Sure, it's great to keep Google happy, but it's usually more important (long term) to have your users be return visitors."

Google's Bad Neighborhood Links Policy And Your Web Site

Editor's Note: See also: Bad Neighborhood SEO Problems, Find Sites Sharing Your IP

Copyright by Axandra GmbH, publishers of SEOProfiler, a complete SEO software solution.

Try SEOProfiler for free.

All product names, copyrights and trademarks mentioned in this newsletter are owned by their respective trademark and copyright holders.

Click Here To See More Google-Specific Articles

Site Promotion Articles Indexes:

Guaranteed Top 10 Search Engine Ranking
Get A Top 10
Search Engine Ranking

Bullet-Proof Google Promotion

Google's Disavow Links a Trick?

5 Things About SEO

Google's Disavow Links Tool

Google +1 Clicks & SEO

Manual Penalties & Your Rankings

10 Recent Google Algorithm Changes

Google's New Web Page Spider

Search Engine Safe URL Redirect

KEI: A Good Indicator For Useful Keywords?

Google PR Improved With Domain Redirection

Dealing With A Google Ban

All You Need To Know About Google Suggest

Is Your WebSite Guilty By Association?

 

Search Engine Promotion Help Site Map

Valid HTML 4.01!

© 2024 Search Engine Promotion Help
October 03 2024 09:37 UTC