Comments on: Open Thread: Can you have a bad link?

By: Search Engine Optimisation Manchester

Search Engine Optimisation Manchester — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:06:12 +0000

Firstly one should clarify what a good and bad site are;

Who is judjing the sites? The owners or the search engines? I think its the search engines we’re talking about here and they rank sites with a level of trust.

Trust is built over time and from reccomendations (links) from other trusted sites, quality content, white hat methods etc.

Linking out is no where near as bad as an untrusted site linking to your own. Linking out can only disperse page rank out of your site and deliver power elsewhere on the web.

By: Reciprocal Link Building, Sharing the Link Love

Reciprocal Link Building, Sharing the Link Love — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:51:48 +0000

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By: UK Webmaster Forum

UK Webmaster Forum — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:09:06 +0000

yes in SEO world we can’t control who links to our sites, so why would a search engine punish us for who is pointing to our site? this may only effect a site’s ranking if more bad sites linking to you than good sites
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By: Phil Hogan

Phil Hogan — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:43:11 +0000

Awww..the mystery of google search. Will we ever know???
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By: Bidet

Bidet — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:38:10 +0000

I dont think you get penalized for incoming links because than your competitor can just keep linking to your site, I think it matters what your out going links are.