Google socks it to yet another link farm
 

Takeaway: Google's monitoring BH forums. Don't buy links from link farm advertisers on such forums?

http://searchengineland.com/google-b...lo-rank-179296

Never worked for me anyway

lol anglo rank blogs are very far from linkfarms.they have hq themes,the blogs are 100x more professional what you would find on linkspun and only linking out from posts,and not even from all of them.btw they got busted on friday,imho any open-network is a risk:2 cents:

Author is one Barry Schwartz.

SEO blogging has a Jewish character. No wonder Google protects it.

Another webmaster recently told me this: NO SEO is the BEST SEO! Whatever you do, google might find it tricky and punish your site. You never know before. So feel free and build SEO free, natural sites. Try out with some sites.....

Hi Matt, how's it goin?

With all their updates Google made sure that building and running websites is nothing more than gambling - now, you can easily spend a few years upadting your sites and they can wipe them out off the face of the earth any time they want. They hate affiliate sites, article directlries, sites with bad links, sites with any links, sites with no links, blog farms, pornographers, short people, tall people, you name it. But blast a YouTube video with tons of garbage links and it ranks just fine, go figure...

Pretty much ...

Google itself is nothing more than a link farm.

link farm or not, if you are selling links they are coming after you.

No matter how good the quality of your network is, if you're openly advertising link selling, there's a risk you're going to be taken down.

:1orglaugh

Original and interesting content always wins

I would tend to agree with this, but I think there's a real distinction between properly defined text link advertising and links/sites that are obviously built to do little more than circumvent quality control guidelines at the SE's -- not just Google -- and then blatantly advertising they are doing so.

Being mentioned on a site of relevance is not a bad thing -- in fact it could be argued that it's an extension of the information being presented on the site where the link appears -- an external reference if you will.

I used to think so .... but after Panda and Penguin I changed my mind.

The serps now don't give me any better results than they did 5-6 years ago. Google still admittedly gives better results than the other 2 but still only 70% of the time.

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Anyone doing anything remotely BH in public is making a massive mistake. If you do things you shouldn't be doing according to Google, it's completely illogical to tell people about it on a public website, use an out of the box script known to others or anything else of that sort. The further you get from their TOS, the crazier you would have to be to share what you are doing with people in plain view of Google's enforcement team.

Yeah but even if you abide by their TOS in the strictest sense there's a good possibility you won't rank.

Google is a business like any other. It has to balance out giving 'good enough' results so surfers will continue to use them with making as much $$ as possible.