Re: Can inbound links really hurt you?
Google knows they are paid links (if they are coming out of known link seller sites) or "fake links" (in the case of blog spamming free blogs), they also know you are buying links if 90% of your links have similar anchor text.
That is how incoming links can hurt you, because G knows who is selling links (directory promoters and link brokers), they have taken down entire link broker built networks many times already and all the sites the link broker controlled or created.
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