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 More options Jul 12 2008, 8:20 am
From: Red Cardinal
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:20:06 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Sat, Jul 12 2008 8:20 am
Subject: Re: Low Toolbar PageRank for Newsday.com
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I'm really curious about this - given all the talk about link farms,
and your comment

> Please remember that participating in link schemes intended to
> manipulate search engine rankings

What's the take on all the links to their other sites? I personally
have no issue with sites linking out to other sites under their
corporate entity, but given the anchor text on some of those links is
quite obviously "intended to manipulate search engine rankings" how is
it that this penalty has been lifted?

Apologies to Brent - my intention here isn't to cause problems for his
site, but instead to clarify what exactly this particular guideline is
saying.
Right now it's about as clear as mud IMO.

Rgds
Richard

On Jul 9, 4:31 pm, Reid wrote:

> Hi Brent,

> Thanks for your post.  I'm glad you're posting here in the Webmaster
> Help Group, because the discussions here help educate webmasters
> around the globe.  I just checked over newsday.com and compared it to
> the most recent version of newsday.com that was indexed by
> Archive.org:http://web.archive.org/web/20070829225145/http://www.newsday.com/

> Scrolling near the bottom of what your site used to look like, I see
> the following "Featured Links":
> Mesothelioma Lawyer Lung Cancer Personal Injury Law Firm
> Buy Mets Tickets Buy Yankees Tickets Wicked Tickets
> Hamptons Travel

> Please remember that participating in link schemes intended to
> manipulate search engine rankings, including buying or selling links
> that pass PageRank, is a violation of our Webmaster Guidelines, and
> may impact your site's standing in Google:http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66356

> If you believe your site was at one point in violation of the
> Webmaster Guidelines, and you have since made changes to your site so
> that it fits within the guidelines, you can request reconsideration of
> your site by following the steps here:http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35843

> Best,
> Reid

> On Jul 8, 12:44 pm, Autocrat wrote:

> > Is that a real email address?
> > :D

> > .

> > Seriously, I'd start ignoring them then.

> > Either that, or call a meeting and state thet you may have a solution,
> > but it's going to cost around the region of 14,000.
> > Thats to cover the expenses, time and resources required to pull apart
> > the external link infrastructure of the other sites, then contact all
> > those sites/companies/people that link to the other site, and then
> > bribe them to ensure they are linking to this site (thats not buying a
> > link... bribing is competely different ;)), and using good link text,
> > and possibly locate (after spending days scouring the net) high
> > quality, good PR sites for new links.


 
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