You can’t control who links to you, so Google wont punish you. But if Google finds a network with all sites having the same owner, and they are gaming the SERPs with bad neighbourhoods – Google will penalise the entire network – you’ll disappear from the SERPs.
@xecutable 228159 wrote:
Thank you for this useful reply, I would have never guessed that “Bad neighbors” is actually bad for my website. The idea behind a forum, is to provide value to the community with each and every post.
Anyways I was wondering, what happens if I am linking to a site, which supposedly is in a good standing, but they r linking to a bad neighborhood. Theoretically, if they get punished, would I get punished as a chain reaction or not?
Also, this might be a bit of an off-topic, but as far as I know, Google doesn’t care about meta keywords, but there are warnings all over the net, not to stuff keywords in the meta keywords?
Regards,