Comments on: Ask Kirsty – Google Penalty For Link Spam on My Site?

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:09:45 +0000

Whoops, I just ‘aquired’ 100 social bookmarking backlinks for one of my sites. I hope this doesn’t happen to me!

By: DougS

DougS — Wed, 27 May 2009 11:29:12 +0000

Get some decent quality links, ie ones that take some effort and they will overcome any lining problems. If you still don’t rank, get some more quality links….repeat.

Works every time:)

Doug

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Sat, 23 May 2009 01:02:51 +0000

Very good & interesting point well made Mike! It’s important to remember that things are very rarely cut and dried when it comes to matters Google!!

By: MikeH

MikeH — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:42:04 +0000

I would think that the 50 links on spammy social networking sites aren’t the whole problem, rather the short period in which they were acquired and the proportion of these backlinks to other backlinks.

Checking the site seems to show around 60 backlinks. If the site jumped from 10 to 60 backlinks and the 50 extra are on questionable sites, that would be a red flag for Google. However, going from 120 to 130 over 1 month, using the same sites *might* not be a problem.

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:14:58 +0000

This is actually one of the most useful Ask Kirsty posts that I’ve read in a while, and I think it’s because the site is included so we can see for ourselves (pictures are worth 1,000 words and all that…).

Might it also be worth checking to see if the RSS feeds have the full text in? If they do, perhaps change it so only a small excerpt of each post gets output to the feed, that way the scrapers will only get a bit of content?