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I'm just trying to understand this a little more. On the surface I can't understand why I should be penalized if I link to a site in a "bad neighborhood". I have a directory type site with 100's of links that I simply can not hand check each update.
What is meant here is this:
If you happen to link to a site or a number of sites that have either been penalized or banned altogheter, your PR and hence your rankings could suffer also.
Google knows that you will never be able to control who links to your site, but you do have control to whom YOU link to.
That's all. I hope this helps
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I have a directory type site with 100's of links that I simply can not hand check each update.
Tough call. I believe if there are enough links from one page to bad neighborhoods, that you will most likely see a reduction in PR, if not PR0. And, it is possible that it will only effect the page where the links are. Beware though, PR0 is a disease and if you don't innoculate it immediately, you might as well throw in the towel.
Google knows that you will never be able to control who links to your site, but you do have control to whom YOU link to.
But I don't have control of who they link to or what they do with their sites.
I don't want to rehash the debate on this subject again, there are already enough threads devoted to it. I was just hoping to find some reference threads on the subject where maybe GG spoke out or a little more techical discussion took place.
Cheers,
You have. Just set up your outgoing links as redirect links by a cgi script and block the script through robots.txt.
p.e.:
- [yourwidgetssite.net...] ... or
- [yourwidgetssite.net...]
robots.txt:
Disallow: /jump
This way a robot can't follow the links and thus they don't harm your site's ranking. You can allways make direct links to those you know that they are ok / safe / good neighbours.
BTW: that's a really important thing for directory style sites!
Googleguy mentioned "bad neighborhoods" during a google update, searching for "month google update" and each month will most undoubtedly find it ;)
It seemed like scaremongering at the time, and IMHO some people take it overboard, one link to a PR0 page (penalised or not) will not make you a bad neighbourhood.
>directory style
Do you store any part of the page apart from its listing? I'd 404 check it, and also check to see if the content has dramatically changed. All other htings aside, you'd hope the links in the dir don't get banned and the content that is on them is safe to list as it was when you first listed it.
