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Google’s War on Backlinks: The Crackdown & Updates

JillO asked 3 years ago
Last week, there was quite a stir as Google actually sent warnings to webmasters to stop using “bad link networks.” And since then, there’s been a bit of a frenzy as SEO Experts are attempting to unravel the possible connection between unnatural link warnings from Google & unapproved Blog comments.

Here’s the Latest Updates: Google’s Bad Backlinks

What do you think of the latest crackdown? Will this heavily affect your current SEO Strategy?

13 Answers
allfreechips answered 3 years ago
Nope, new ballgame now as I hear people are getting demoted in the the SE ranks shortly after getting letters.

Play answered 3 years ago
@allfreechips 238684 wrote:

Nope, new ballgame now as I hear people are getting demoted in the the SE ranks shortly after getting letters.

Thats nothing new – when google discovers links that they don’t like pointing to your site, they discredit them and they no longer have value, and so your site drops as a result of loss in links. Nothing like a penalty.

It makes sense for this to happen after people get contacted and warned, because it means the site is in googles radar and either has been reviewed or is pending a human review. I think Rak hit the nail on the head.

I cant imagine google finding a way to penalize sites for bad linking practices, at that point it wouldnt even be about seo and links to your sites, it would be about destroying your competitors. If Im #11 I just need to nuke the top 10 and Im #1
then Im getting nuked and so is everybody else – it doesnt make sense and its not sustainable. Ignoring them is all they can do. But that’s just my humble opinion.

allfreechips answered 3 years ago
I think you will be suprised at some sites they got a letter then dissapeared after a few weeks that still had a LOT of valid links, all within the last 2 months