Google: “Checking Backlinks = Spammy Requests”

September 24th, 2006 QuadsZilla

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Many of you might have seen that Google is given SEO advice to government agencies. The Google Cache is reporting that at one of those events, Adam Lasnik of Google gave a speech/session where he let out this little tidbit:

Google doesn’t improve the link: command because they don’t want spammy requests.

Adam then went on to say that if you want to check your backlinks that Yahoo Site Explorer was a good place to look.

Now, we’ve known forever that the link command was horrible in Google. What is interesting if that they consider backlink checking to be “Spammy Requests.” So all you “white hat SEOs” out there, do you make “Spammy Requests?” or would you rather just err on the side of not being seen as “Spammy?”

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6 Responses to “Google: “Checking Backlinks = Spammy Requests””

1. Link request i Google er spam - Mikkel deMib Svendsen says:

   September 24, 2006 at 1:29 pm

   [...] Adam Lasnik fra Google har ifølge SEO Black Hat udtalt at Google ikke gider gøre noget ud af at fÃ¥ forbedret deres temmelig fejlbehæftede link: – link request, søgefunktion. Adam Lasnik kalder dette link-request for et “spammy request”. Med andre ord – man er en spammer hvis man søger med link: i Google! [...]
2. nekto94 says:

   September 25, 2006 at 7:40 am

   I have translated this post to Russin here (http://doorway-blog.blogspot.com/2006/09/spam-request-in-google.html). Thank you for interestin idea! =)
3. CaseDetails.com - SEO for Law Firms » Checking Your Links Too Often? says:

   September 25, 2006 at 12:01 pm

   [...] I read an interesting post on seoblackhat.com today saying that Adam Lasnik of Google confirmed that their “link:www.mysite.com” query i) isn’t very accurate and ii) is seen as a “spammy” request by Google.  In other words, people hammering Google.com with “link:www.mysite.com” are effectively revealing themselves as ~nefariously involved~ with SEO.  Is this, or will this be, one of Google’s metrics for determining sites that stink of SEO? [...]
4.   Ой блин или мысль о Spam request in google - Домашняя страница SEO says:

   September 25, 2006 at 1:02 pm

   [...] Вот тут ребята из seo black-hat (http://seoblackhat.com/2006/09/24/checking-backlinks-spammy/) высказали ну ооочень интересную мысль. Вешаю краткий перевод. …Адам Ласник говорил: гугл не работает с командой “link:”, так как они не хотят спам запросов. Типа прользуйтесь Yahoo и все такое… Дак вот интересно: а если к этой команде там привинчена автоматическая отправка спам запроса?   ÐžÑ€Ð¸Ð³Ð¸Ð½Ð°Ð» статьи на:   Doorway-blog Способ получение трафа, если сидишь в sandbox ← → [...]
5. Doorway blog » Ой блин или мысль о Spam request in google says:

   October 1, 2006 at 6:26 am

   [...] Вот тут ребята из seo black-hat (http://seoblackhat.com/2006/09/24/checking-backlinks-spammy/) высказали ну ооочень интересную мысль. Вешаю краткий перевод. [...]
6. Google and “Spammy Requests” says:

   November 30, 2006 at 5:50 am

   [...] We know in the past that Google decided to cripple their backlink checker to reduce “spammy requests.” Now they are going to cripple thier inurl command? [...]