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Somewhat of a sidebar, but what's to prevent the following: 1) You buy 1000 links for $5 [1] 2) You enjoy a brief rise in the rankings 3) Google catches on a
by ScottWhigham 13y ago
Somewhat of a sidebar, but what's to prevent the following:
1) You buy 1000 links for $5 [1]
2) You enjoy a brief rise in the rankings
3) Google catches on and penalizes you
4) You use the link disavow tool to effectively say, "We didn't do it! A competitor did it to us!"
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5813496 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5813496
- sharkweek 13y agoWe're seeing a lot of this tactic in a lot of the more... difficult industries right now with super high value terms (payday loans, viagra, etc). What is hot and popular is doing exactly 1-3 except on a hyper-rotation of domains. Build up a bunch of shitty websites, get them ranking for a few weeks, they inevitably get penalized, then just switch domains and rinse and repeat.
- davedx 13y agoWhy would you enjoy a brief rise in the rankings from something that causes 'negative SEO'? Surely these inbound links either harm or help you, not both?
- ceejayoz 13y agoInbound links don't immediately get detected as negative. That takes a while.