Link Farm question

Hi,

If site xyz.com uses link farms & is penalized & also links to my site, what happens?

I presume that their link to me will be worthless...

But their link to me will not have a bad effect on my site, will it?

 

That is my understanding of it.

 

That makes 2 of us.

 

You won't get penalized for one way incomming links, just their value will be slim to none.

 

Only outgoing links from your site to bad sites would hurt you.

 

That's some good advice.

 

no one ever seems to know do they

I have been doing seo for like 3 years and I have yet to see someone show a specific example of a "bad neighborhood"

there was like one thread somewhere where google guy says that this site with css hiding the text was bad, but it had pr and lots of pages

what if someone doesn't know css? how do they tell?

 

My understanding is that you don't want to link to a site that either is banned or might be banned from the SE's.

 

I have sites that are banned by the search engines, I don't think the people who linked to them where hurt

I know I am probably linking to a buch of banned sites somewhere

 

Hmmm...Very interesting...perhaps that bad neighborhood stuff is just nonsense?

 

You won't get penalized by google for incomming links.

 

You won't get penalized by Google for incoming links but I'm pretty sure there are effects to your keywords positions on the search engines if you have so many links coming in to your site with the same anchor text.

It is definitely a bad idea to link to a link farm.

 

This is am finding to be very true. Over optimizing on anchor can led to some bad effects over the long haul.

 

Ok...IMHO bad neighborhoods are Sex sites when not related, sites that spam everywhere and anywhere, like gambling sites, MLM sites, affiliate sites like long distance and ring tone sites are the ones to be weary of. Not all of them have bad spamming practices but those industries are know as some of the worst and you should be carefull when trading links with them. I'm sure ther are others but thats a start.

 

Wow!! Nice rant! lol

But I do agree with you and I would never link on purpose to one of these sites. I think one or two may have slipped through to a few of my sites when doing bulk link exchanges but I generally try to avoid these types of sites.

The main reason is that I dont want my business being associated with non family friendly sites.

 

Isn't this whole bad neighbourhood thing something that PR is actually useful for? While I might link to a white bar, I would not link to a gray bar.