bad neighourhoods.

re: bad link in(from bad site).

Pardon my ignorance, but does that mean if I create say 100 sites full of Google bad polices, get them all banned on Google, then create links from them to other sites they will ban the other sites?

Yes I can believe that might happen but that would be just silly Google business.

Wouldn’t?

You can get scrutinized. If your link aquisition looks unnatural to boot, you’re done.

Indiscriminate linking is risky.

Besides, you’ll get red flagged by macaffee advisor and that has quite an effect. That’s what advisor does a lot, dinking sites for linking to bad sites. They just look at how many bad sites you are “associated” with and it is very hard to get rid of the red flag. They even look at aff links and dink you for them if they don’t like where they go. They don’t lift the red flag just like that, it takes time, then they switch to yellow, and after months they will finally give you green. They say it’s a matter of reputation and it takes time to lift a bad reputation.

So, links to bad neighborhoods can get you.

Links from bad neighborhood can also get you at google – by association. One or two go under the radar, but if you have a bunch you may get flagged.

This is what google bowling used to be based on. If you get penalized and think you have been google bowled (doesn’t happen much anymore) you can file for reinclusion and they will have a look.

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.

I think it depends on how many bad links you have linking to you, so its proportional to your entire link profile. You probably won’t get banned, but lots of bad links will have the effect of reducing your trustrank, sandboxing you, or pushing way back in the Google results.

@xecutable 228214 wrote:

I see, so any miracles overnight, are carefully inspected, resolved and punished accordingly.

Thats what I think…

I see, so any miracles overnight, are carefully inspected, resolved and punished accordingly.

@xecutable 228212 wrote:

Is this the only way to get all the up on the 1st spot?

No, they are artifically gaming the results – which will get you caught on eventually.

The other way, is ethically, and organically… what Google wants us to do. A whole heap of factors play a part in getting you listed highly in the SERPs.

Content
Links
Social Media
Links
Domain Reputation
Site Structure
Load times
Usability
etc

As Google puts it, there are numerous factors.

And then time.. For the high traffic keywords, you wouldn’t expect your domain to hit #1 from out of nowhere in a matter of 2-3 months, I am sure Google expects domains to increase through the SERPs at certain rate, with incoming links, from different types of sites

Is this the only way to get all the up on the 1st spot?

@xecutable 228208 wrote:

They claimed that only 7% of their overall profit comes from online sales, and that it didn’t affect them a lot. I find this very hard to believe, especially when you come up 1st on terms like, shoes, jeans etc..

7% overall is still a substantial amount for a company the size of JC Penneys – granted they are a real world store.

And like.. next time round, I think organisations will build their own secondary sites to protect their main brand, and do this sort of stuff all over again.

They claimed that only 7% of their overall profit comes from online sales, and that it didn’t affect them a lot. I find this very hard to believe, especially when you come up 1st on terms like, shoes, jeans etc..