On December the 10th roughly I believe the Google algo changed. It was previously really only what outbound links you had affected your serps. There now seems evidence on other threads that the actual inbound site can affect your site. If somone links to you whom G does not approve then you get de indexed/ reindexed and get a minus 50 serp penalty. The implication of this relating to who links to you is quite significant
dude, where did you get the idea? I believe SERPs are highly related to the anchor text other sites links to your site (inbound links). Yes, like I said. But this is not new, bad neighbourhood?
I think you are way off base. In that case, we can just pay bad neighbourhoods to link to our competitors and get them banned. Why not get thousands of your so called "death links" and point them to apple.com? Let's get apple removed from the SERPS.
The common consensus is that bad links don't harm your site they simply get nullified/disregarded by google. Else your competitor would setup bad links to your site in an attempt to knock you out of the serps.. Bad neighbourhood is when you have bad outbound links you get penalized.
This is exactly what has happened. Have a look at the threads on Google on this forum If you have and paid links etc Drop them. Text Link Brokers will have the worst Christmas of all. The algo has changed with regard to inbound The minus 50 deindex is here
Search the Google forum There is a massive thread on deindexing. Technically it now belongs here. Basically if you buy a high PR link for juice say 5 or above it has shown in the last six days to Deindex your site and all your pages Reindex on the next crawl just the index page To drop your serp by exactly 50 places This is a warning ladies and gentlemen, the wind direction has changes
Woohoo time to add all my competitors to link farms? =P I highly doubt that Google is deindexing sites because there is a link to your site found in a "bad neighborhood". Outbound links to bad sites will hurt you, but I truly can't imagine Google changing their philosophy to this stance.
These were cirtainly not link farms. These were high pr pages from 4 - 8 All opinions welcome. It is the only logical thing in common.
That is neither proof nor evidence. There are almost always so many different things going on at the same time that it makes it very difficult to prove which cause, has what effect. And that's just how G wants it. /*tom*/
Sorry Valley, just not buying it. True paid links took a hit, but no way will Google allow a system where competitors can trash each other buy placing links to a competitor from a "bad" site. Worse case is there is zero credit for the link.
This is the sort of subject where people are not going to admit it. Google look for patterns. I am not saying that a single link will do it, but if your link pattern looks like a paid budget, then yes, this is done manually
Yeah! Well said... Rankings are all about back links and content. More back links you got from good relevant website, more stable rankings you will get on SEs and yes, you should have some exciting content about your topic on website.
I feel like I am preeching quantum physics to a mushroom factory. lets agree to disagree. I was going beyond the basic link + anchor = serps have a Merry Christmas all. Valley out