| Link Pruning or Link Building? | businesstrader | 5/30/12 4:00 AM | So I received the email below from Google today in regards to my reconsideration request. I'm confused! Directories are inorganic? I was bombed with inorganic links early April and then got smashed by Penguin. I have been working my but off removing |
| Re: Link Pruning or Link Building? | tim2223 | 5/30/12 7:42 AM | So that does it then, negative SEO is alive and well, the way to succeed now is to bring competitors down by pointing spammy links at their sites. |
| Re: Link Pruning or Link Building? | sabhandari | 5/30/12 8:03 AM | hey businesstrader, did you also receive the unnatural links mail from google webmasters? |
| Re: Link Pruning or Link Building? | fathom | 5/30/12 8:20 AM | LOL Everybody lies! You got bombed by links in April this year? |
| Re: Link Pruning or Link Building? | businesstrader | 5/30/12 2:52 PM | Absolutely! |
| Re: Link Pruning or Link Building? | businesstrader | 5/30/12 3:05 PM | tim2223 - Absolutely! Looks like we can only hope for a link blocking tool in Webmaster Tools sabhanari - Yes I received the email notification fathom - I got bombed in mid March actually.....Sorry, my mistake, but yes, I got bombed! Couldn't hav |
| Re: Link Pruning or Link Building? | 888wolfdog888 | 5/30/12 3:19 PM | I've been aching to get someone to try this out. Have a look at this: http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess14.shtml Im really quite interested to know if breaking the links could actually be an effective means of blocking the link juice. The |
| Re: Link Pruning or Link Building? | fathom | 5/30/12 3:31 PM | I reviewed the links Google noted and noted an added date of 2009 in a couple. Connnecting the dots is what I mean with my quote "everybody lies". It is a broad reference that suggests no one think of themselves as a spammer. They couldn't have possi |
| Re: Link Pruning or Link Building? | businesstrader | 5/30/12 3:48 PM | I'm not saying that my link profile was perfect, no ones is, but clearly I had an influx of links in mid March. I worked very hard to reduce these links, but I am now thinking that Google simply devalues them and that I simply need high quality links |
| Re: Link Pruning or Link Building? | fathom | 5/30/12 3:59 PM | YES Absolutely correct! Take a look at wikipedia and their internal linking practices to add/include the unnatural links (if off site) towards a page(s). It's merely navigation then. |
| Re: Link Pruning or Link Building? | SE_Expert | 5/30/12 6:52 PM | That is all we need to know :) They are simply saying use adwords. |
| Re: Link Pruning or Link Building? | businesstrader | 5/30/12 7:47 PM | Yes I have to agree that this part of the email was concerning. |
| Re: Link Pruning or Link Building? | Webnauts | 6/4/12 3:56 PM | Those .htaccess rules are no redirects. They are referrals. So to clarify, you cannot block the juice. As long the link is alive and is not attributed with "nofollow" you cannot do anything against it. |
| Re: Link Pruning or Link Building? | Webnauts | 6/4/12 4:03 PM | I checked your link profile and looks like you are are back to normal. But I still see that you homepage suffers from an OOP (over optimization penalty) for the keyword "business for sale". You need to try to revise the anchor texts of inbound links |
| Re: Link Pruning or Link Building? | Webnauts | 6/4/12 4:08 PM | Fanthom, I am following up his case, and I can confirm he was definitely had a very fast growth of links, which the majority were sBlogs. It is interesting to see the link profile history starting in November 2011 until April 2012. I cannot tell if |
| Re: Link Pruning or Link Building? | fathom | 6/4/12 4:28 PM | I assume you mean fathom (as in six feet of depth) as oppose to fanthom (which I don't have a clue what they is) :-) |