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Are torrent sites classed as bad neighbourhoods?

by fancydressqueen
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Hi all,

I submitted a PDF version of my costume catalogue to the pirate bay a few years back and received a little bit of traffic from the links I posted both on the torrent page and within the PDF. The pirate bay has been scraped constantly and I now have numerous links on a large number of torrent sites.

My question is are these sites classed as potentially bad neighbourhoods that could be effecting my site rankings?
#bad #bad neighbourhood #classed #links #neighbourhoods #sites #torrent
  • Profile picture of the author SEO Haven
    For sure. Sites like piratebay are crawling with malware (warez) and generally aren't very trusted when it comes to Google. I mean, how many times have you searched on there and get to a Google page that says it's "untrusted" or what not? It's good for traffic, yes, but from an SEO standpoint it's not recommended (unless you have your own torrent site, of course).
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    • Profile picture of the author fancydressqueen
      Originally Posted by SEO Haven View Post

      For sure. Sites like piratebay are crawling with malware (warez) and generally aren't very trusted when it comes to Google. I mean, how many times have you searched on there and get to a Google page that says it's "untrusted" or what not? It's good for traffic, yes, but from an SEO standpoint it's not recommended (unless you have your own torrent site, of course).
      So getting the links removed would be beneficial I would guess? Hardly an easy task now that the pirate bay is blocked in the UK
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    • Profile picture of the author smodha
      Originally Posted by SEO Haven View Post

      For sure. Sites like piratebay are crawling with malware (warez) and generally aren't very trusted when it comes to Google. I mean, how many times have you searched on there and get to a Google page that says it's "untrusted" or what not? It's good for traffic, yes, but from an SEO standpoint it's not recommended (unless you have your own torrent site, of course).
      Are you sure about this?

      It's a good question by the OP so I did some investigative work in true Columbo fashion.

      Isohunt.com is a PR6 site with a MajesticSEO Trust of 68 and a MOZTrust of 6.14/10.

      Make up your own minds...
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
        Originally Posted by smodha View Post

        Are you sure about this?

        It's a good question by the OP so I did some investigative work in true Columbo fashion.

        Isohunt.com is a PR6 site with a MajesticSEO Trust of 68 and a MOZTrust of 6.14/10.

        Make up your own minds...
        And Majestic SEO Trust and MOZTrust have zero to do with how Google sees a site.
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        • Profile picture of the author yukon
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          Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

          And Majestic SEO Trust and MOZTrust have zero to do with how Google sees a site.
          That's a funny thing about a lot of people that do SEO, they think sites like Moz are something superior to SEO which in turn must mean Google makes decisions based on these so called SEO sites, when it's actually the opposite, the so called SEO sites are trying to ride Googles coat tail.

          Google could care less about those homemade trust score gimmicks.

          Shows the power of relentless marketing to the masses...
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve Fleming
    You could always use a proxy to access it. Just a thought.

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    • Profile picture of the author fancydressqueen
      Originally Posted by Steve Fleming View Post

      You could always use a proxy to access it. Just a thought.

      Steve
      Hi Steve,

      I tried this but had issues logging into the site. Quite annoying.
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  • Profile picture of the author fancydressqueen
    Quick update.

    You can request to have torrents removed from the pirate bay here: https://forum.suprbay.org/showthread.php?tid=125073

    If you're no longer able to access the site this is the best method of removing the torrent.

    Hope that helps someone.
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  • Profile picture of the author Icematikx
    The pirate bay is NOT blocked in the UK. They have created numerous "duplicate" sites to bypass the court's order.

    Here's one: Download music, movies, games, software! The Pirate Bay - The galaxy's most resilient BitTorrent site

    I'm on Virgin, in the UK. I can access it fine.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    So, if I own a torrent site, B I N G O! I just was able to knock any
    site down I wished!

    People mix up what google says, "bad" neighborhoods, hack sites, porn,
    file sharing -illegal or legal, adsense TOS, and much, much, much more.

    How does google "view" wikileaks? Dang good trusted site---go figure.

    Of course, then we can mix up the word, "trust."

    Google aint the internet police, nor do they try and be. They don't
    even pretend to be.

    Sadly, google does censor some search results in some countries, but
    only on legal demands of that country.

    They are a business first...go figure. They make decisions based on the
    bottom line.

    I just realized that wikipedia, although nofollow, gives links to the biggest
    "bad" neighborhoods on the plant....like rapidshare, I don't know if rapidshare
    still operates the way it did. US laws don't transfer well overseas.

    How about twitter? Again, nofollow, but links are still seen. Twitter has links
    and accounts to everything under the sun...Is twitter a bad neighborhood?
    They've got everything from al queda to nazis.

    Some of the biggest hack, illegal, porn, younameit sites have very high "trust"
    value with google. Again, you people are mixing a lot of stuff up.

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  • Profile picture of the author tech84
    no definitive answer for this, some torrent sites are legit (posting educational articles etc, and some are bad (obviously illegal DLs)

    If you have control over the link, this is something you should ask yourself:

    is this something I would like to have as a backlink to my site?
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    It can't be too difficult to remove a link from major torrent site.

    A torrent has to have a seed, basically your hotlinking from the original hosted file (on your host) to the torrent page. Change the original pdf URL, create a new account on the torrent site, then report your own torrent as a broken torrent. Done.

    I don't know If the links are hurting your rankings but it's kinda obvious the majority of torrent sites are shady, doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure that one out.

    Even If Google didn't care about the links, why would you want that type of traffic (torrent traffic) on your site, doubtful they're looking to spend any money.
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