Comments on: Site Sabotage: 8 Forms of Internet Terrorism http://seoblackhat.com/2007/09/15/site-sabotage-8-forms-of-internet-terrorism/ Tired of useless Top 10 Lists for ranking in Google? Looking for effective and insightful info? SEO Black Hat Blog offers articles on Blackhat SEO, Linkbait & Link Spamming. And if you need to escape White Hat SEO Whiners, check out he Private Black Hat Search Engine Optimization Forum. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:26:23 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: ChrisWebPub http://seoblackhat.com/2007/09/15/site-sabotage-8-forms-of-internet-terrorism/comment-page-1/#comment-7291 ChrisWebPub Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:51:29 +0000 http://seoblackhat.com/2007/09/15/site-sabotage-8-forms-of-internet-terrorism/#comment-7291 Most of those are dumb. The first 4 or 5 are pretty much the same thing and all revolve around a competitor doing link building for you in spammy places. So apparently the author thinks that sites can and do get penalized if they have bad incoming links. Apparently he never read the dozens of statements put out by Google etc, saying they don't do that. In all my years doing this I've never seen that happen to anyone. It is possible that you'll be getting a benefit from a spammy link, then the algorithm changes, and that benefit is lost so it seems like a penalty, but that is just devaluing of the spam links, not a penalty. Most of those are dumb. The first 4 or 5 are pretty much the same thing and all revolve around a competitor doing link building for you in spammy places. So apparently the author thinks that sites can and do get penalized if they have bad incoming links. Apparently he never read the dozens of statements put out by Google etc, saying they don’t do that. In all my years doing this I’ve never seen that happen to anyone.

It is possible that you’ll be getting a benefit from a spammy link, then the algorithm changes, and that benefit is lost so it seems like a penalty, but that is just devaluing of the spam links, not a penalty.

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