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Next step is to link spam someone else and see if I can get them penalized down to PR0, then we'll know for sure if google penalizes for inbound links from link farms.
Its not just an ego thing you know.
Its about Quality targeted traffic and making £££
Shak
I have a site with photos of ancient stuff, including some roman mosaics with slightly erotic content (like naked behinds), and even though it is a serious site on classicial culture, some porn-sites are linking to those pages.
I certainly hope I won't be penalised for that, because there is absolutely nothing I can do about it. I can make the link not work by blocking the referrer, but that won't help me much, I guess.
René.
(The bestiality people still haven't discovered the photo of the statue of the Satyr and the goat (I'm not kidding - those Romans were weird), but one day they will :-)
>I used a free link exchange service
That's what you couldn't do to a competitor.
It was by far the most visited of the new sites and one would guess that quite a lot of the visitors actually registered there. And what will they get? A lot of hit-and-run clicks. And a penalty by Google.
So, i cannot enter my competitors url in a linkfarm exchange and send visitors to that link-url throug javascript, so i don't get banned or so?
Why not? I Don't see the problem. You can use one of your own email addresses, send visitors and voila.
By sending visitors to that url, ad's/url's on other sites will point to his site. The more visitors you sent, the more (bad)sites will show his ad/url.
And if G bans this for bad inbound links, next update G will se the new links. Or am i wrong? I don't see why it can't be done.
I don't think that this is possible, because on every linkfarm you have to build a linksite on your own homepage.
How would you manage to set up a link site on your competitor's homepage? You would have to hack his FTP. Are you doing this?
In order to get the other site an automatic penalty then you would need to convince them to link back to the pages that Google doesn't like.
BeetleBailey, often people think they have a penalty when the problem is something else (the WebmasterWorld site search [searchengineworld.com] can offer many examples of this). However, if you joined a link farm with links that are invisible to google but visible to other users then a penalty would be a possibility.
