Google: We Can Detect Automated Link Dropping

Dec 19, 2018 - 7:50 am 7 by

Google Drops

With all the chatter around links, negative SEO, the tools, etc - Google's John Mueller said that the tools used to do automated link drops are "old school" and thus, Google has probably seen this behavior before. He basically said, Google is good at detecting them and ignoring these types of spam also.

Here are those tweets:

John again is saying here, don't worry about these types of negative SEO attacks. Google got it covered.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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