Hi all, A boggus site is giving me backlinks with boggus anchor text...is it a harmfull to me.... And if it is then how can I overcome to it,... Seems very short question but if G has more weight on backlink then this may creat more issues... thoughts....
Incoming liks can't hurt your websites. If they could then I could remove all my competition from SERPs... p.l.u.r.
It certainly won't help but should not hurt either, however, a huge number of links from these sites would hurt a bit, I would imagine.
Bad Backlinks to Avoid - Website Submission Tips for Web Links Dishonest webmasters are using various means so their web links are not followed by the search engines. The website submission tips below will help you spot bad links to avoid. Some websites add code that will keep your visitor on their website and others will use code that will not allow your backlink to pass PR (Page Rank). If you submit your web link to a website designed to only profit the owner of the site it will not profit your site at all and may do grievious harm to your page rank instead. The backlink coming into your website should be from a quality website with relevant content with a page rank similar to your own . Check out the other website's link page where your site will be listed and use that page to check the page rank (not the home page) and don't submit your website if any of the following dishonest backlink methods occur (some of these you need to view source code to find them): Bad Backlins to Avoid Pages with web links inside of frames will not pass any Page Rank and will steal your traffic.. Free for All Links - unrelated and spammy links (banned by search engines). Link farms - 100 or more unrelated links to a page (banned by search engines). The site has a mirror site with exact same web links (also banned). The site has a PR of 0 (either because the website is too new or page is in a dynamically driven database) Use your discression here--a new, well designed website may grow in page rank. The link page or directory is not linked from the home page (search engines won't find it). If this site is a directory are the links in a dynamically driven database? (if so it will never be found by Search Engines). If you think it will bring traffic go ahead. If the website is a directory do they make you search to find your site? (it won't be found by Search engines unless it's on a static non-changing page). Is the website using a redirect link to an inside page on their site where they "appear" to list sites but that site's title or domain name is in the title of that page (BEWARE!!!! it will steal your traffic--more info below) If the page you would like to place your link on has a robots meta tag that says: "NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW" or a robots.txt* that disallows googlebot then Google will not follow any links on that page and thus no page rank (a new trick of dishonest webmasters). The website takes forever to load (too many ad banners, etc.) and search engines won't wait. The website is poorly designed and has broken code, etc. * You can check to see if a site has disallowed search engines from following a page by checking their robots.txt (enter theirdomain.com/robots.txt). If you see anything like "Disallow: (with the url for the page your backlink would be on)" then they have told search engines to not follow the links on that page. Avoid Submitting to sites with More Info or Profile pages There are dishonest webmasters taking drastic means beyond what is mentioned above to hide their links. Often the website will look harmless enough, but often they make another page with "more info " or "profile" and use one of the two methods below to display your site and either prevent your page rank and/or steal your traffic at the same time: 1. They put your web page inside a frame so when someone views that page they don't even need to go to your website and thus steal your traffic. If this happens put a "break out of frames" script on that page so it won't be contained in their frame any longer and ask them to remove your backlink. 2. They put your title (usually for the home page) on the title of the "more info" or "profile page" which results in them competing for the keywords in your title. Ask them to remove your backlink. These kinds of sites are called Scraper Directories because they scrape whatever they want off the internet and put it on their own website inside a frame to make it look like they have a lot of content on their website when they are actually stealing other's content and their traffic also. The best way to detect this activity is to watch your site meter for links with two urls in it; the offending site's url comes first and then yours. If you click on the bad backlink it will go from their website to yours--you have to watch closely in the bottom of your browser window or you may miss it. See the Hijacking Web Page PR (Page Rank) article on how to stop this. Buying Links From Bad Neighboorhoods A bad neighborhood is any site with a There is a site on the internet called the million dollar home page that is a prime example of this scheme (I'm not linking to it for obvious reasons). They claim to not accept bad neighborhood sites but if you check the site you will find they have accepted links from a lot of them. All websites linked from this page are not categorized so it would be considered a Link Farm. Also there are thousands of links on this page that were sold to unsuspecting buyers who thought they would get a PR 7 from this link. The page may have a PR of 7 (PR can be easily falsified) but having thousands of links coming out of a page would make the value of that PR negligable. Search engines disapprove of purchasing links because it is a dishonest attempt to boost your sites importance. Most importantly, sites participating in this type of scheme may find their web site banned or penalized. Web Traffic Scams - Avoid Websites that Sell Traffic A dishonest SEO telemarketer company called Traffic Power used a Javscript Mouseover redirect on a keyword spammy doorway page so it would rank high and when someone lands on this page via a search engine they are redirected to the intended page the minute they move their mouse over that page. Google bans such sites that use this technique and often the client doesn't even know what happened and by then the SEO fraud company is long gone. Traffic Power has since changed it's name to 1P (First Place). See this testimoney from a well informed client of LWD that was wise enough to avoid a Traffic Power's SEO SCAM when they called and also this article on Web Traffic Scams. Alphabetical Listings - A Drop in PR that You Can't do anything About When submitting a link to a directory or website that lists backlinks alphebetically be aware that your backlink may be moved to another page when that category gets too large. This will usually result in the new page having less page rank than the original so you loose page rank as the site grows and the url of your link drops out of site until the next update and this can happen several times over the life of the website. There isn't much you can do about it unless you pay to remain in first place--which is probably why they do this. The same often happens to a new disorganized directory that decides after you have submitted your link to break the page down into separate categories.
LunarWebLink. Don't you have anything better to do that copy (Plagerize) other's articles and post them as your own? i wrote that article years ago which you can see here: http://www.loriswebs.com/backlinks-to-avoid.html Please remove it.
Short answer: - If you link TO site, it can hurt your rankings if it's e.g. a site google has banned from the index (bad neighborhood) - If you GET a link from a site, it never hurts your rankings. The only exception: If you only have a few incoming links, a relatively weak and new site, and suddenly hundreds or thousands of low quality/spammy links point to your site almost overnight (blog mass commenting, mass social bookmarking, etc.).
LoriVa is correct, a link would have been great. If Google can detect your bogus links were obtained through a shady link scheme that your fingers are in...you will feel the pain.
I just want to thanks: 1- LoriVa 2- StarkReality 3- Homer For bringing an almost two years old thread back into the discussion !!!
Guezz I did not even look at the date. 2 years ago I may have had a different answer to the bogus link question. I think LoriVa made his comment cos his content got ripped off, the rest followed.
If there was some way to post a message to the owner of this site of a copyright infringement I would have done so. Their comment re copyright infringments is "don't bother me". I've been getting lots of private stickey spam last several months because of being a member of this site and no way to report it. The two problems above are why I havne't posted anything here for a long time.