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Post by account_disabled on Jan 11, 2024 2:15:24 GMT -5
But the sites/blogs that hosted those links were also penalized, with the PageRank shown on the bar being reduced to zero (or almost). We could say that both the wholesaler and the retailers were affected. To bring us a little closer to the present day, how can we not talk about the Penguin ? April 24, 2012 is a date that many webmasters and SEOs remember as "judgment day": Google announced a penalty aimed at hitting keyword stuffing and link spam , and a lot of sites with a link profile (in entrance) that smelled like SEO a mile away. Even today the Penguin, which has undergone various "tweaks" over time , is considered Malaysia Phone Number List by link builders to be one of the most insidious penalties ever (along with the Panda , released a year earlier). In the case of Penguin, it was not so much those who sold links that were hit, but those who acquired them over time with techniques that were a little too "extreme" (for example, many links with the same dry keyword within the anchored text, perhaps from sites that are not exactly first-rate). Finally, I conclude with Matt Cutts' latest tweet-statement . o (March 20, 2014): Matt Cutts' tweet explaining the 2 sides of the penalty “When we act on a spammy link network, we can target blogs that host guest posts, sites that benefit from the links, etc.” In practice, Cutts states that Google can penalize both those who buy and those who sell links : it is therefore better to avoid being on one side or the other, because sooner or later both sides end up beaten...
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