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Originally Posted by deepsand
That's an assumption, one which might hold true in some instances, but not necessarily in all, or even a majority of all instances.
And, to conclude that the default response from any SE is to deem any and all "suspicious" IBLs as being the product of an active effort to acquire such, and therefore subject all to a like "penalty," is likewise an assumption.
Finally, there remains the issue of the form of the "penalty," as previously addressed by several; i.e., "zero value" vs "negative value."
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What? Google can't know if a webmaster is aquiring links themself, hired someone to do it for them , or if it's being done by a third party. The algo can't know. What do you think they do? Call every site owner everytime they see a pattern they don't like and ask "Hey, you do this? and believe the answer they'd get. Cmon.
All it see's is a pattern. The form of the penalty? I already posted what Google says they do in this thread so there is no issue there.
Any SE? Cmon deepsand. All SE's do their own thing.
The original question remains the same... Can inbound links really hurt you? My answer remains the same. Yes they can. No more, no less. I don't know why you want to spin this into something it's not.
Dave