Can someone derank me by pointing bad links?

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Ive always wandered if people can derank websites... by pointing bad links like po**.

Does anyone if this is possible because I think it may have happened to me!

Any help would be appreciated!
#bad #derank #links #pointing
  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Google doesn't derank websites for porn links. If they did, how would you find porn online?
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  • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
    A couple of months ago, that may have worked. Now, Google's Penguin just ignores bad links. That doesn't necessarily mean that bad things can't happen. You could get a manual penalty but you would see notification of that in Search Console.

    Of course, now that Penguin is part of the "real time" algorithm and not just a filter they run every year or two, it could be the bad links that were helping your site rank (whether they were ones you placed or someone else did) have been discovered as bad and are no longer helping your site rank as well as it formerly did.
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  • Profile picture of the author KylieSweet
    Sometimes competitors use this kind of method in which building unrelated or bad links pointing into your site and this is to downgrade your site in rankings. However from its new Penguin update Google no longer consider those links as your ranking factor but devalued.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Originally Posted by dave_hermansen View Post

    A couple of months ago, that may have worked. Now, Google's Penguin just ignores bad links. That doesn't necessarily mean that bad things can't happen. You could get a manual penalty but you would see notification of that in Search Console.

    Of course, now that Penguin is part of the "real time" algorithm and not just a filter they run every year or two, it could be the bad links that were helping your site rank (whether they were ones you placed or someone else did) have been discovered as bad and are no longer helping your site rank as well as it formerly did.
    Originally Posted by KylieSweet View Post

    Sometimes competitors use this kind of method in which building unrelated or bad links pointing into your site and this is to downgrade your site in rankings. However from its new Penguin update Google no longer consider those links as your ranking factor but devalued.

    Porn links are not "bad" links. Google loves porn. Look...

    https://www.google.com/search?q=porn
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  • Profile picture of the author SEOtraveler
    Originally Posted by SavvyTeenager View Post

    Ive always wandered if people can derank websites... by pointing bad links like po**.
    Does anyone if this is possible because I think it may have happened to me!
    I`d recommend you to take some action to avoid any kind of temporary penalty for such links (or recover from it if you are already penalized): monitor your backlink profile and audit it occasionally. In case there are any excessive spammy links appearing for reasons unknown - you might want to disavow them right away, to avoid any impact from them on your rankings, as quantity may boost your rankings a bit at first, while quality may put you down in perspective.
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  • Profile picture of the author michaelkoehler92
    A few links wont matter that much but if you already have a good authority and links then those shitty links wont matter too much. But if you find a lot of links pointing towards you just use disavow tool and you will be okay.
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  • Profile picture of the author umakant13
    Google crawl all the links and it doesn't Derank your website if someone insert bad links to your sitess
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