How does Google treat links?
Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2025 4:08 am
The question was very specific. It asked how Google treated specific link building tactics that are easy to do.
Here's the question:
Website Analysis tools may be a reference to websites that provide technical information about domains.
User profiles are a reference for joining web forums and creating a profile. Spammers add a link to their profile that is displayed.
Typically, a forum links to the member list where Google finds and crawls the profile link. Each post on a forum features a link to the member's profile.
A spammer will sometimes try to exploit that you are creating a few posts that result in furniture manufacturers in usa email list a link to the profile which then links to the target site.
This is one of the easiest ways to build links. There is even software to automate the process of signing up and creating a profile with a link.
John Mueller answered the question, but broadened the scope to address a broader range of easy link building techniques.
“I guess user-generated content and it automatically generates content sites. For the most part, we ignore them because, like, they link to everything and it’s easy to recognize, so that’s something we essentially ignore.”
Google ignores forum profile links
John Mueller made it clear that Google ignores forum profile links.
He called them user-generated content links. What's interesting is that Mueller said they were easy to recognize. This is important.
That means Google doesn't use any fancy link analysis or anything like that. Google's algorithms easily recognize them as forum profile links and don't automatically count them.
The context probably sends a signal that they are forum profile links and they are removed from the link graph and have no ranking benefit.
Here's the question:
Website Analysis tools may be a reference to websites that provide technical information about domains.
User profiles are a reference for joining web forums and creating a profile. Spammers add a link to their profile that is displayed.
Typically, a forum links to the member list where Google finds and crawls the profile link. Each post on a forum features a link to the member's profile.
A spammer will sometimes try to exploit that you are creating a few posts that result in furniture manufacturers in usa email list a link to the profile which then links to the target site.
This is one of the easiest ways to build links. There is even software to automate the process of signing up and creating a profile with a link.
John Mueller answered the question, but broadened the scope to address a broader range of easy link building techniques.
“I guess user-generated content and it automatically generates content sites. For the most part, we ignore them because, like, they link to everything and it’s easy to recognize, so that’s something we essentially ignore.”
Google ignores forum profile links
John Mueller made it clear that Google ignores forum profile links.
He called them user-generated content links. What's interesting is that Mueller said they were easy to recognize. This is important.
That means Google doesn't use any fancy link analysis or anything like that. Google's algorithms easily recognize them as forum profile links and don't automatically count them.
The context probably sends a signal that they are forum profile links and they are removed from the link graph and have no ranking benefit.