22 Oct '12, 1pm

Google, Penalties & the Disavow Links Tool: The Big Game Theory

Google, Penalties & the Disavow Links Tool: The Big Game Theory

The announcement that Google had created and launched a Disavow Links Tool to allow people to simply “delete” spammy backlinks has been met with much fanfare as the “answer” to the backlink profile problem. I’m here to argue that the opposite could actually be true and that those using it are being gamed by Google. Google has never had an issue with the quality of search engine results pages (SERPs) per se. Yes, there were areas that they weren’t completely satisfied with, but this was not the motivator to the mass penalty rollout. That came from its attempts to clean up the link graph of spammy links to enable the search giant to compete in semantic search , with the likes of Wolfram|Alpha and Apple. Taken at face value, a tool to remove links with the click of a button could only be a good thing, right? I’m not so sure. If that's the case, then it really gives black hatt...

Full article: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2218699/Google-Penal...

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