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Old 04-26-2008, 07:33 PM
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Default Re: Can inbound links really hurt you?

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Originally Posted by crankydave View Post
jawn...

When a "linking pattern" that Google doesn't like, doesn't approve of, "egregious", however you'd like to word it, is detected and meets whatever threshold they have established, the target site can/will suffer in the rankings either automatically by the algo or by a "hand job".

For anyone to think, that they can engage in any kind of external link building they wish and the worse thing that can happen is nothing, is being naive.

Dave
But, ones "engaging in ... external link building" is not the issue here.

There is a difference between actively acquiring links and passively receiving such.

One cannot logically conflate the two, and thereby conclude that the consequences of the latter are presumed to be those of the former.
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