The Sandbox theory – Google gets wise to link brokers

Google, notoriously secretive about their search algorithms, seem to be responding to the rise in link brokers offering placement in their multiple networks of sites as a method of getting quick results. New sites that suddenly have hundreds of links pointing to them are not immediately given ‘credit’ for those links in Google.

Professionally (and ethically) run link building campaigns will not suffer from this development at Google, as links are created over a defined period of time and are individually chosen for their relevance and rank. Hence results are very rarely immediate with any new websites.

Read more on this thread at
http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=9534

Or find out more about Koded’s link building campaigns email info@koded.co.uk

30/10/2004

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