bad neighourhoods.

@Warren 227313 wrote:

If you have a lot of links from neighborhoods which cater to “known spammers”, you can get penalized by Google or even delisted. Most will be zero’d out value-wise, but some can hurt you.

Only reason I asked was, because, really – you might not have control over who links to you.

So many different types of spam out there to get links from your site, to a “bad” site

@xecutable 228190 wrote:

Would they rely on a simple whois? As a lot of domain names offer private option and it doesn’t show who the owner is.

I’m not entirely sure to be honest. I usually meet up with SEO guys when I can, about 4 years ago, one of the guys was building what I would call a bad neighbourhood. He has setup his own NameServers (private) and on different servers setup legitimate sites, and bad neighbourhoods.

When the bad neighbourhoods got pulled from the SERPs.. so did the legitimate sites. The only thing in common, was the nameservers.

Would they rely on a simple whois? As a lot of domain names offer private option and it doesn’t show who the owner is.

You can’t control who links to you, so Google wont punish you. But if Google finds a network with all sites having the same owner, and they are gaming the SERPs with bad neighbourhoods – Google will penalise the entire network – you’ll disappear from the SERPs.

@xecutable 228159 wrote:

Thank you for this useful reply, I would have never guessed that “Bad neighbors” is actually bad for my website. The idea behind a forum, is to provide value to the community with each and every post.

Anyways I was wondering, what happens if I am linking to a site, which supposedly is in a good standing, but they r linking to a bad neighborhood. Theoretically, if they get punished, would I get punished as a chain reaction or not?

Also, this might be a bit of an off-topic, but as far as I know, Google doesn’t care about meta keywords, but there are warnings all over the net, not to stuff keywords in the meta keywords?

Regards,

With regards to meta keywords – I don’t think Google places too much emphasis on them. To be safe I try to limit my keywords to 5-7 which is usually all that I need. Focus the keywords on your content will produce more results than focusing on meta keywords.

@parth84 228099 wrote:

Bad neighbors are not good for your site. Avoid it.

Thank you for this useful reply, I would have never guessed that “Bad neighbors” is actually bad for my website. The idea behind a forum, is to provide value to the community with each and every post.

Anyways I was wondering, what happens if I am linking to a site, which supposedly is in a good standing, but they r linking to a bad neighborhood. Theoretically, if they get punished, would I get punished as a chain reaction or not?

Also, this might be a bit of an off-topic, but as far as I know, Google doesn’t care about meta keywords, but there are warnings all over the net, not to stuff keywords in the meta keywords?

Regards,

Bad neighbors are not good for your site. Avoid it.

@xecutable 227879 wrote:

Linking to: will definitely get you in trouble, but Linked from

As GamblerPlace said, what if I create 100 website, link my competition, would that wipe it out?

Regards

It used to. But google got smart on this one and such effect may happen very temporarily – and then you’ll be the one dead in the water. Google got wise to this years ago.

My understanding is that it is proportional – if you have a relatively low number of bad links (eg: links from 100 bad sites but far more links from good sites) then the links will just be ignored. I imagine there are thresholds that if exceeded your site gets scrutinized in depth.

So throwing 100 bad links at a competitors site who has a healthy and diverse link profile (from trustworthy sites) wouldn’t negatively affect them.

Linking to: will definitely get you in trouble, but Linked from

As GamblerPlace said, what if I create 100 website, link my competition, would that wipe it out?

Regards