Comments on: Looking for ‘Bad Guys’ – Discovering Networks of Sites

By: Eric Blair

Eric Blair — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:33:57 +0000

I assure you one day all of us will live in daily FEAR of the company Google Inc.

and it will be nothing to do with websites or blogs… you have been warned!

Febuary 2010

By: John

John — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:27:57 +0000

I think Google is to busy counting their money to care a hack of a lot about all
of the millions of small web sites.The are the real revenge of the nerds, I say they are laughing all the way to the bank. This guy Matt Cutts does he ever see daylight,it seems like an inside joke , here is our official ,unofficial , spokesperson .
They say never speak when you can nod , and never nod when you can Wink.Thats Matt motto

By: joshtalbot

joshtalbot — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:30:35 +0000

I want to no of your badguys can come to my home today of taht ok with you in im a badguy to im 17 want do you live at tine you can fine me I live in bsdc beatrice nebraska in bing all your badguys

By: Jason Forthofer

Jason Forthofer — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:28:02 +0000

Maybe Google says these things to “scare” everyone but never intend to actually do any penalizing.

If it is true, and a link is a recommendation, we can no longer talk about ourselves?

By: Ann Smarty

Ann Smarty — Sat, 03 May 2008 14:58:37 +0000

“Do you just have to be big and important to allow interlinking between your website?”

Obviously, yes :)

By: Jaan Kanellis

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 02 May 2008 23:02:02 +0000

Is Cnet’s network of websites legit? Do you just have to big and important to allow interlinking between your website? Obviously they have link to all their properties in the footer of all the website they manage.

By: Lesley

Lesley — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:31:59 +0000

“if you are able to find a network, be sure Google will do that too”.

Oh how I wish that were true.

I’ve never tried reporting networks to Google. Is it worth it?

By: Matt Longley

Matt Longley — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:12:34 +0000

Hi Ann,
Great post about link networks and how to uncover them, but you may want to be careful about condemning link networks. You may find that some of your buddies at searchenginejournal go home, dim down their lights, and slip on their grey or black hat. =)
All kidding aside, I personally like to search for link networks for two reasons:
1. When I find a good link network, I may want to use it.
2. When I find a bad link network, I may want to expose it.
It’s always funny to notice a competitor come out of nowhere and to find out that they did it by using some proxy network or some spammy network. In a short period of time they disappear, especially if google gets some help finding the network. =)
As far as creating networks, I think it is best to try to remain anonymous and not to interlink your valuable properties. Right now using web 2.0 properties is a great way to remain anonymous while creating effective link networks.

By: Tony Lawrence

Tony Lawrence — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:51:15 +0000

Why do you say b5media is legit? Do you mean because they don’t hide the fact that they are a network and interlink between members?

Google should still penalize them, shouldn’t it? Really, what’s the difference between an open network trafing links and a hidden network doing the same?

It’s still artificial linking, isn’t it?

By: Fabio Uncinotti

Fabio Uncinotti — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:18:14 +0000

http://www.touchgraph.com/ can be a lot of help in identifying the connections and how a site is related to others. The king of the “mini net” is Michael Campbell he had several white hat techniques about mininets, maybe if it is done properly it can still be an effective method…