No SEO implications for linking to bad neighbourhood? One of the holy grail of ranking well in search engine used to be not liking to so call bad neighbourhood and unrelated sites, this doe not seem to be the case anymore (or at least in the case of one particular site), a site I used to own. The new owner is no taking care of the forum and there is hundreds of link from the site port, gambling, hacking and ever bad neighbourhood you can think of but the site till ranks very very highly for highly competitive keywords. You just need to visit the blog section (ukwebmasterworld.com/blogs) and the main site to see what I mean. This spamming of the site has been going on for about two years and it does no seem to have affected the the site's ranking at all, is quite interesting. So, link to bad site as much as you like without any SEO implication?