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Comment on Blocking Bad Back Links by Martin Woods

Martin Woods — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:19:57 +0000

William we are saying the same thing, I agree that Google doesn’t see the block. But when you ask for reconsideration via a request from GWMT, you are can say this has been done. This might not be visible to them, BUT it is something to talk about. At the end of the day, anything that appeals to the human nature of the person reviewing the site penalty is worth doing, as it will all come down to one persons opinion sadly. When I said “but could be seen as a good will gesture by Google” I meant to the person reviewing the site. This person might not necessarily know this affects it one way, or the other.

Comment on Blocking Bad Back Links by Barry Adams

Barry Adams — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:18:05 +0000

The logic in Gary’s ‘solution’ (and I use the term loosely here) uses similar reasoning as the head-burying ostrich that thinks that the rest of the world ceases to exist once it stops seeing….

Comment on Blocking Bad Back Links by William Cross

William Cross — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:10:19 +0000

Martin: google would never SEE the block. ONLY the blocked server would. So no, it is not seen as a good will gesture, it is simply not seen by google in the least.

Comment on Blocking Bad Back Links by Martin Woods

Martin Woods — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:38:54 +0000

This Blog post was based on personal opinion and does not necessarily reflect the views of Blueclaw. On closer inspection we would agree that this wouldn’t stop the link juice, but could be seen as a good will gesture by Google.

Comment on Blocking Bad Back Links by William Cross

William Cross — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:22:12 +0000

Actually, DaveN is NOT wrong. Blocking the refering servers IP only stops traffic from that specific server, it does not stop googlebot from indexing the link, it does not stop visitors from that porn site from getting to yours. The only mistaken one here is you Gary.

Comment on Blocking Bad Back Links by Gary Beal

Gary Beal — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:16:42 +0000

Its basically a broken link…which is why it works. At the end of the day it malicious SEO and the method/advice came directly from Google when bowling was a much bigger issue.

Comment on Blocking Bad Back Links by Gary Beal

Gary Beal — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:12:55 +0000

Sorry Dave but your wrong here. If the IP is blocked the link is broke and the SE’s can’t follow it. I’ve done it this way since bowling was a major issue a few years back, and its currently working right now on sites we are blocking server side and the links are de-indexed.

Comment on Blocking Bad Back Links by Peter Zmijewski

Peter Zmijewski — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:34:50 +0000

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Comment on Blocking Bad Back Links by Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:53:17 +0000

This doesn’t make any sense.

How does blocking access for spam sites have any impact on how Google treats inbound links?

Comment on Blocking Bad Back Links by Dave Naylor

Dave Naylor — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:50:25 +0000

I’m sorry but that just will not work, the link which is placed on the bad site will still be present and the search engines will still index that link, you are only blocking a server from accessing your pages, you not stop the webmaster or spambot accessing other sites and adding bad links to you, and you aren’t stopping google bot from seeing those links ..