Comments on: Matt Cutts Addresses Bad Linking and Google Penalties

By: Ex necko

Ex necko — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:18:50 +0000

I like this article.Thanks!

By: Ex necko

Ex necko — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:18:50 +0000

I like this article.Thanks!

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:16:36 +0000

Google will put a -60 on your site if you do a lot of counters and templates. A sector I work in several sites were doing it. We all got a -60 penalty. No matter what I type in google I will show up on page 6. If I type in something real specific only on a few sites and there are only 3 results I will be number 3. I am -60 for the root of my domain name and my domain name is very specific. The domain is very old. If all the links we paid for went away we would at least go back to our ranking before that happened. If you can’t rank your site even with really obscure searches then you have a penalty. I have sent re inclusion requests to google telling them exactly what we did and why and what we are doing to fix it. We made sure that you could not download any of our templates or counters. We have a program that is emailing anybody with the template or counter asking them to take it down. We have gotten quite a few down. I have not heard from Google.

I sent a very generic re inclusion request back on oct 27th just asking what had happened without admitting any guilt. I then sent an email on Dec 9th with all the details. I have not heard from google at all.

By: an0n

an0n — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:23:36 +0000

Hey Loren, thanks for the read.

One thing that you mentioned was the contributing a template that is being mis-used.
As I recall, didn’t Matt Cutts already state that someone linking ‘to you’ can not affect you. But with regards to the other way around, then it can?

Rob

By: Tworzenie Stron

Tworzenie Stron — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:33:17 +0000

Placed links in catalogs (f.e. qlweb) is good or wrong? I have many links in qlweb but i think they do nothing….

By: Jaan Kanellis

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:19:55 +0000

Anytime I see a “woe is me, my rankings are gone” post. I usually can find the problem in the back links. That should be a lesson to most. Look through your back links first and see what you did wrong there before complaining about ranking drops.

By: Cedano

Cedano — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:20:18 +0000

@jonson roth: I agree with you, google can´t (could not) give you a penalty for something like that, if that happen, so what next? you will be penalized for give free tools?

That make no sense.

By: jonson roth

jonson roth — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:27:22 +0000

How can you “deserve” a penalty because someone else is a prick? That makes no sense. If you give away a theme, you have no control over how it’s used.

By: shyboy

shyboy — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:14:14 +0000

As the owner of the site, I have to say without a doubt that sponsoring themes is the worst thing you can do to a site you care about. Thinking about it now, I just can’t believe I did it to my site. Especially after all the hard work we put in to get it the way we want it. In all honesty, I had no idea that it was wrong. I suppose the fact that so many of my competitors are doing it, recommendations from ‘seo’ experts etc has convinced me it was an ok thing to do. Seeing the list that Matt showed me of the porn sites pointing to ours was a shock. I literally had no idea and in a way it detracts from the image we wanted to create for the site. Pure naivety (stupidity?) prevented me from figuring out that if anyone can download the themes, it’s very likely that a substantial percentage of those will be porn. After all, it would not be common for a porn site to point at a furniture site normally.

By: Loren Baker, Editor

Loren Baker, Editor — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:30:11 +0000

@ Barry, of course! I was going to embed the poll too, but thought better just to direct the readers to the source. OT, Did you notice if PollDaddy works in RSS readers?