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That is a very serious claim. Do you have any data/evidence to support this, or is it all strongly worded opinion? If that were actually true, it would be gro
by guimarin 14y ago
That is a very serious claim. Do you have any data/evidence to support this, or is it all strongly worded opinion? If that were actually true, it would be grounds for regulatory action under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890. Many companies other than Google depend on the interconnectedness of the web, as represented by, among other things, inter-site linkages.
- nmridul 14y agoData Directly from from Google - http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/04/another-step-to-reward-high-quality.html http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/04/another-s... If you go the black hat way or even get links the black hat way, that could get you into trouble. Its scary because sometimes this is all that is needed by your competitor for some one to kick you out of the search engine. Specially when you are just starting up and you have very few white hat links (genuine links) and some one just blasts you with the black hat links.
- thenomad 14y agoMatt Cutts confirms that some links can harm your site here - http://searchengineland.com/google-talks-penguin-update-recover-negative-seo-120463 http://searchengineland.com/google-talks-penguin-update-reco... Here's an example of a site which recovered from a Penguin penalty by removing external links - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-wpmuorg-recovered-from-the-penguin-update http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-wpmuorg-recovered-from-the-pe...? And here's some more general data analysis - http://www.micrositemasters.com/blog/penguin-analysis-seo-isnt-dead-but-you-need-to-act-smarter-and-5-easy-ways-to-do-so/ http://www.micrositemasters.com/blog/penguin-analysis-seo-is...