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All sites are gone

by opportunist86
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I'm back to IM after 15 days and just shocked to see that all of my sites have lost some ranking. I think its after google's last update. Some people who I exchanged links with, asked me to remove their links from my blogs and apparently the reason is that google is penalizing backlinks generated through link exchange and many backlink with similar anchor text. Is it true?
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  • Profile picture of the author bloggerd
    not sure about that but will certainly look into this.. are all the links in the simular anchor text all linking to the same link?
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  • Profile picture of the author adam337
    There is no problem with link exchange. But you should not exchange links with spammy sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author retsek
    You got over 200 posts. 200 posts with same anchor text acca past papers, and to top it off it's on a forum that has nothing to do with higher education and home hardware.

    Wouldn't it be reasonable to assume that these types of tactics you're engaging in are the type that Google wants to ignore, not give credit and even penalize for.

    To answer your question, yes, it is true.
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      • Profile picture of the author Danny Cutts
        Originally Posted by TommoBedhair View Post

        Let's be clear here - Link Exchanges are a big no-no in Google's Quality Guidelines. They even mention how negative they are in the Unnatural Link Notices.

        If you're being obvious about how you exchange links - for example: Having a long list of links in a sidebar widget, then you're going to be penalised. If you're more careful about how you exchange links - for example; writing a unique, quality article that surrounds the exchanged link, then you're much less likely to be penalised.

        With link building the best place to put a link is where users will actually benefit from it, not just spamming links here, there and everywhere.

        If you look at the amount of updates / refreshes that Google has rolled out over the last month it would be fairly hard to pinpoint which update(s) you have been hit by without looking at your analytics. But I'd say it could easily be a combination.
        Exactly....

        Increasing user experience is what the game is now :-)

        Danny
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  • Profile picture of the author Kulle
    So u got ur PinguinE: )
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