crobb305 - 11:06 pm on Aug 16, 2012 (gmt 0)

Penguin is all about links right?

I have been approaching it as an attack on web spam, gleaning as much information as I can from last year's patent update. On-page/off-page factors.

What worries me, in the industry I am in, is the number of backlinks that have been generated over the past few years by a company creating fake content (hidden from the search engines), with hyperlinks to competitors, that do a redirect to a lead-generation landing page. In my backlinks, I see thousands of these links, often on .edu pages. These are likely the ones hurting my sites, but Google expects me to eradicate them. I can't.

[edited by: crobb305 at 11:10 pm (utc) on Aug 16, 2012]