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A month ago I wrote, Google's Matt Cutts Replies to -60 Penalty Thread at Google where I summarize how Matt said some links are hurting a particular site.
At that point, I decided to poll our readers and see if they feel that most of the "minus" X related threads and penalties are back link related or something else. Most believe the penalties are related to one's back links.
Here is the break down:
- 47% said Yes (50 responses)
- 28% said No Idea (30 responses)
- 25% said No (26 responses)
My personal feeling is that many of those perceived penalties have to do with the links to the site. Just a hunch.
Forum discussion continued at Google Groups.
Comments:
imran ali
03/24/2008 12:22 pm
My poll is YES.
Gerben
03/24/2008 01:46 pm
If this is true, I would have started 'link building' for my competitors yesterday...
Barry Schwartz
03/24/2008 01:52 pm
Maybe you should. ;-)
sjachille@gmail.com
03/24/2008 05:11 pm
I'd throw my weight behind the "YES" in most cases - It has been happening more and more and I wrote up on a real life case here: http://shrinkify.com/28k
Sante
03/24/2008 05:14 pm
In my experience I have found a trend in penalties and surges in linking as I documented in a recent post based on real life experience http://shrinkify.com/28k
Chris Baldwin
03/25/2008 08:33 am
very interesting. I think google is moving back to applying backlink penalties and this is going to get worse. Google webmaster tool needs to quickly introduce a feature to reject incoming links like yahoo site explorer has to avoid competitors abusing this backlink penalty rule
Louis
06/14/2008 06:41 pm
our job is accelerate the process of what would happen with a strong web site. I’m not surprised by the YES vote here