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Google sends Manual Link penalty notification to BBC news

by challanger
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Just read about this and I Laughed,,, Now Google is going to target one of the major and might be biggest news channel of the world.....

Google sends a notification to BBC news about some unnatural links on BBC news sites network....

Details are here!!!!!!!

Google Sends BBC News A Manual Link Penalty Notification
#bbc #google #link #manual #news #notification #penalty #sends
  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Story sounds a little fishy.

    Neither Google or the BBC has confirmed it. The story is all based around someone posting a message on the Webmaster Forums claiming to be a representative of the BBC. I could post on there claiming that.
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    • Profile picture of the author satrap
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      Story sounds a little fishy.

      Neither Google or the BBC has confirmed it. The story is all based around someone posting a message on the Webmaster Forums claiming to be a representative of the BBC. I could post on there claiming that.
      I have to agree. It's not like you have to show identification and prove that you are in fact who you say you are to post on the forum. So, I could go there and post as if I am the head of BBC.

      But seeing that JohnMu kind of confirms it there, I guess it happened.

      That goes to show how ill Google's new spam fighting measures are!
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  • Profile picture of the author challanger
    You could say that but Barry Schwarts (Who wrote the story on Searchengineland) is very experienced writer.

    Although he failed to provide any BBC news authentic source link... but still it could be true.....

    or you could be right as well :-) 50-50
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  • Profile picture of the author legoog8
    lol but i doubt bbc even cares if this happened... they get direct traffic from people typing there website name in the address..... plus with so many news subscribes things they got and with there own tv channels i would just laugh at google. Hahaha...

    Plus if i was google i wouldn't mess with them a international news company... yeah and bbc could just start broadcasting more on the tax google hasn't been paying... plus i bet other things.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by challanger View Post

      You could say that but Barry Schwarts (Who wrote the story on Searchengineland) is very experienced writer.

      Although he failed to provide any BBC news authentic source link... but still it could be true.....

      or you could be right as well :-) 50-50
      Yeah the same guy that reported that Google had taken down the Sape network by referencing two threads on black hat forums. One thread, showed no evidence at all and was completely divisive. The other was a completely empty thread. So sorry, not real credible when it comes to reporting news in my mind.

      Originally Posted by Complex View Post

      John Mu commented on it at the bottom of this thread.
      Didn't see his comment before. His comment makes this even less of a story. Google took action against 1 page. One page on the entire BBC website. Nobody will bother reading that though, and this will blow up into a ridiculous story on forums about Google taking down the BBC website, which could not be farther from the truth.
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      • Profile picture of the author Backlinko
        The reason they got this warning may be because lots of reputation management firms in the UK used the BBC site to control their client's first page results.

        So they'd get content published about their client's firm and blast it with garbage links so it ranked.
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        • Profile picture of the author Marc_L
          Originally Posted by Backlinko View Post

          The reason they got this warning may be because lots of reputation management firms in the UK used the BBC site to control their client's first page results.

          So they'd get content published about their client's firm and blast it with garbage links so it ranked.
          That might be the case but how do you know this?
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          • Profile picture of the author paulgl
            I have no idea why people do not know that searchengineland
            has their own agenda. They are not the wizard of oz when
            it comes to all facts they report.

            I did notice the phrase, "rss scrapers." Could be more clues
            as to why google decided to ditch their rss reader.

            A word to the wise.

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          • Profile picture of the author Backlinko
            Originally Posted by Marc_L View Post

            That might be the case but how do you know this?
            I know people that know people.
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  • Profile picture of the author Larry Leggett
    Could not believe in this news. If such things took place, BBC should have report about it because it is a major threat to their online empire.
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