Getting Penalized for Back Links
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Can someone linking to you cause your site to be penalized? When some one's site drops in the SERPS I hear people say all the time that maybe your site was penalized because you have "bad" or "spam" websites linking to you.
I know the overwhelming consensus is that this cannot effect your rankings. People say this because if Google penalized you for who links to you then you could easily knock out your competition by getting links from "bad" sites to their website.
I would normally agree with this but, I do know that a huge flood of back links all at once can cause a site to lose rankings. Since this is the case, how easy would it be for someone to just send a huge amount of back links to a competitor's site in a short amount of time and virtually knock them out of rankings?
I look forward to the responses.
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chinmokuyuuki -
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