Site wide links have appeared what now?

How to not get penalised for someone linking to you.

[stinkfoot]

OK .. I have just spotted some bunch of idiots that have started using sitewide links to some of my pages.

I know for a fact that sitewide links get you and the page pointing to you penalised. I have asked nicely for this competeing webmaster to remove my links to no avail.

What do I do now?

Any ideas appreciated.

[WebPixie]

Ronin-

I really wouldn't worry about it that much. It you want to put a link to your commerce site and it makes sense, do it.

I wouldn't go out of my way to get my site name in the blog but where it's natural, link to it. Just make sure you are also linking out to anything else that is natural. Do not be afraid to link out even to competing sites. I've only seen blogs get in trouble where the whole blog is basically "keyword keyword and keyword <link to my commerce site> and the keyword about keyword <link to my commerce site)"

As long as your blog is what it's suppose to be, relax.

[ronin100]

Thanks for the good advie webpixie!

[glengara]

*He seemed to be assuring people that the paid links would not hurt, but they wouldn't help at all.*

G can hardly penalise advertising, I wonder though would paid links for "improving PR or ranking" get the same assurance ;-)

[WebPixie]

"G can hardly penalise advertising, I wonder though would paid links for "improving PR or ranking" get the same assurance ;-)"

How would Google know?

We have a wedding site and have found that we get decent conversion advertising in college newspapers off and online. Online college newspapers are not related to weddings, but we’d be advertising in them with or without any sort of PR boost. Can an algo figure that? There’s no reason to assume that the sites are related. But it’s still a way for us to get our ads in front of a lot of potential clients.

It would be very difficult if not impossible for a program to figure why webmasters advertise where they do. It can’t be as simple as the sites aren’t related as best I can tell.

[glengara]

*How would Google know?*

Well as most "bans" I see are linkage related, I assume the overall pattern is the giveaway....

[WebPixie]

When Google writes an algo that can identify what a webmaster is thinking when he/she pays for an ad I'll be very impressed.

I pay for ads for the same reasons that I pay for Ad Words. Because I can make more than I spend. If I can spend a a dollar and make a dollar twenty I'll do it all day long. There is no reason for Google to discourage that, except maybe to protect Ad Words revenue but I doubt that's their goal.

Matt said it clearly I thought. They identify paid ads and ignore them. Which is how it should be. It's not a vote of quality to the site, it's just an ad. To go beyond that into assuming you know why the ad was purchased is hubris. Just ignore it and move on.

[glengara]

*Matt said it clearly I thought.*

To try to decipher an MC answer we need to know what the specifics of the question were ;-)