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Old 04-28-2008, 09:51 AM
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Default Re: Can inbound links really hurt you?

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Originally Posted by Peter (IMC) View Post
Well, I believe that a bad link profile can have a negative impact on your rankings. Being excluded from the Google index requires a lot more bad stuff. You need to make it really bad in order to get excluded from the index.
My bolding. A priori or a posteriori?
In my view:
  1. A priori the effect can only be zero or positive.
  2. A posteriori (after an undeserved positive ranking is acquired) the zeroing out effect can be negative.
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Originally Posted by Peter (IMC) View Post
A bad link profile can not result in negative PR. A link can never transfer a negative PR value. At least it wouldn't make much sense to work like that. The impact of the link profile is not related to the PR it self, I guess it's more related to how much Google trusts a page/site.
Good answer IMO.
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