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The free blog one sounds like a good idea. Would that get you google-banned?

• jasonkester 18y ago
  I run one of those free blog hosting sites the author mentioned, and have to spend a few minutes each morning deleting a dozen new blogs from people that took that guy's advice. Please don't add to my workload. But yeah, linking from bad neighborhoods is pretty much the best way to get removed from Google's index. Blog hosts that allow spam are considered bad neighborhoods.
• llimllib 18y ago
  Does it matter? If it wouldn't today, it might tomorrow. If you care about one site, you can't take that risk. He can because he has hundreds of sites to risk.
  • run4yourlives 18y ago
    He's just speeding up the ranking process with the free blogs though. His sites would get the traffic eventually because they are so tailored to the topics at hand. If I were to do this I'd measure the risk/reward of trying to speed up the growth rates, but everything he did previously is probably good enough.
  • vulpes 18y ago
    Replace free blogs with tech buzz and publicity from established blogs and its exactly the same thing in eyes of google. This would never get you banned.