Google is the police.
Theporndude is the criminal.
You are the person who unawarely let the crime stay unpunished.
I will use a metaphor to better explain you the situation...
Theporndude committed a crime and feels the pressure of the authorities, since he still has the crime weapon.
One day he knocks your door, and asks you to keep a bag for money.
You accept, since you think it's just a regular bag (basing your opinion on it's Google ranking).
One day, you read on a forum that you should check the loyalty of your partners, or you risk to pay yourself for something they've done.
You, who never checked the content of the bag, decide to open it, finding the crime weapon and finding yourself as a complicit to the crime.
Meanwhile, Theporndude, who is feeling safe, is already knocking to the next door.
Aside from this metaphor, Theporndude actually did commit a "crime" (for the Google guidelines of course, not an actual crime).
He actually got too many "commercial anchor text", and now that he has a dirty conscience, he fears them to look unnatural to Google eyes.
What is the crime he committed?
Imagine a site with 100K backlinks, and 50K of these are using the same anchor text "best porn sites". Google won't think that half of the total links sharing the same anchor text looks natural at all.
Google thinks that these links have been obtained artificially, by paying for them, or though some exchange, then the sites deserves a penalization.
Theporndude knows this, that's why he came up with this solution:
No Anchor Trick (
https://www.gotchseo.com/anchor-text/)
“What’s a better way to diversify your anchor profile, then not having ANY words at all?
The easiest way to building "noText" anchors is through images or you can simply “forget” to include an anchor within an article, which will have a similar effect.”
What are the issues?
- Theporndude took care of giving you the code to insert on your site, so that he could avoid to explicitly asks to omit the alt text, something you might have asked the reason for. So the problem is your partner's loyalty.
- You're keeping on each page of your site a link built to cover black seo tactics for another site.
Why should you risk to get a manual penalization and lose your work, due to another guy's shady tactics you don't get any benefit from?
- Each page of your site is hosting an image with no alt text, and often this image is the first one on the site. Aside the fact it may impact your site indexing, still theporndude did not warn you that using his code you was adding on each page of your site an image missing an important tag for Google.
“Every image must have an alt attribute. This is a requirement of HTML standard (with perhaps a few exceptions in HTML5). Images without an alt attribute are likely inaccessible. In some cases, images may be given an empty or null alt attribute (e.g., alt=“”).”
source:
WebAIM: Alternative Text
Solutions (easy and quick to apply)
Possibly remove the link.
Theporndude showed countless times how his business is focused on trick Google rules and other webmasters, in order to get the best results for himself, despite what may happens to his partners.
Considering his recent penalization and his general behavior, he may not be considered as a good partner. Surely not somebody you can trust when it comes to setting up a deal or asking SEO advice.
Alternatively
- remove the image before the link and set up a branded anchor text (if the link is not in the main menu)
- remove the image before the link (if the link is in the main menu)
IMPORTANT!!! WHO ARE THE PUPPETS OF THEPORNDUDE.COM THAT WILL POST A COMMENT ON THIS DISCUSSION?
crucifissio - fris - Bladewire. These users will never try to understand if this thread is reporting a real problem. Their goal is NOT to help the other webmasters reading this discussion in getting the true on this fact. All the contrary! They will keep reading and posting on this thread for weeks with the unique goal to mess up all things to do not show a clear situation to the partners of theporndude.com