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English5 Ways Google Knows your Backlinks are Bullshit
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Let’s think as a search engine.
First, the more backlinks you have, the more google considers your website as important. BUT, what if the backlinks come from the same webmaster?
The meaning is just that he’s linking his own websites, and not that his content is outstanding. So, these backlinks are less important in the point of view of the search engines, their “grade” should be lower. Your SEO won't work (or work less)
How can google know that it’s the same webmaster behind several websites :
Let’s think as a search engine.
First, the more backlinks you have, the more google considers your website as important. BUT, what if the backlinks come from the same webmaster?
The meaning is just that he’s linking his own websites, and not that his content is outstanding. So, these backlinks are less important in the point of view of the search engines, their “grade” should be lower. Your SEO won't work (or work less)
How can google know that it’s the same webmaster behind several websites :
1) Do you use analytics on all your websites with the same google account? Then google knows all these sites are more or less yours.
2) Do you buy all these domains with the same registrar account? Then google knows it through a whois query.
3) Do you host all these websites on the same server? Then google knows the IP, and is likely to consider that it’s the same webmaster behind.
4) Do you use the same google adwords account on these websites? Then google knows it’s the same person who is taking profit from them… aka same owner.
5) Do you use gmail account settings to use different emails with different domains? Then google knows that you are linked to these domains, so you’re probably one of the owners / employees / webmasters.
This list can probably be bigger, but here are some big things google can know about you and your websites, and therefore lower the “weight” they give to a backlink from one of your sites to another.
Truth is, they would do good by applying these rules, since this would make their search engine more efficient and more accurate…BUT, this is also a way to scare webmasters, and to make them NOT use gmail / analytics / adwords and go for the competition instead… which is a bad signal.
In your opinion, what is the policy google is following?
Submitted by Hacene on Wed, 04/15/2009 - 03:39
Comments
#1 i know
that's why i started by using several accounts... and then, it was to much work.
so, i just decided i don't care
#2 Right
Seems coherent, and I agree with you, hope that Google is applying these rules !
Bernard - Afkarweb
#3 google and backlinks
i think they use this too,but i cannot find any official information about it.
#4 Same Server but dedicated Ip?
Hi,
you mentioned: "Do you host all these websites on the same server? Then google knows the IP, and is likely to consider that it’s the same webmaster behind."
What if the sites are on the same server but all of them have dedicated IP with different C Class ranges? Do you think Google still considers it as the same webmaster?
#5 They might if it's only a c
They might if it's only a c class different ip. I guess you bought your ip's to the same reseller, which is already a hint for them. But they cannot know for sure. they probably use it as an element. You could also have two websites and put one in New York and the other one in Beijing for example ;o)
#6 hi
"Do you host all these websites on the same server? Then google knows the IP, and is likely to consider that it’s the same webmaster behind."link building service
#7 Yeah, Google found out that I
Yeah, Google found out that I was the owner of a couple web 2.0 sites through adsense. Also, I used the same email listed in my whois data, then I said "how did they do that?", so stupid. I now know they can and they do do this. I lost some major links, that will never happen again though. I am on to them.
#8 I wanted to say thanks for
I wanted to say thanks for approving my comment, it is so hard to participate in blogs these days because of spammers. Many times it takes days because of the approval process to join the conversation. That is very frustrating. I hate those blogs where you have to wait a week to say what you want, and they use the nofollow attribute across the board, I don't waste my time with them. I feel that geniune participants who add value to a blog with the comments should at least be rewarded with being able to say what they want without having to wait a couple of days. I also think it is nice when the blog owners remove the nofollow attribute. You haven't done that yet, but I understand these days you never know who is spamming. I trust that you will remove that attribute in time, when you see I am legitimate. I have a great deal of seo knowledge and I respect bloggers, in return for my value that I add to the conversation, I expect not to be treated as those ignorant spammers being slapped with the nofollow all the time. Thanks again for your expedient approval, and I look forward to a good blog relationship in the future with you I love seo and sharing my knowledge. I just ask that you not treat me like those "nice post" type of people with the nofollow all the time, and i know you won't. Thanks again for the respect. Spammers hate to see genuine blog commentors rewarded because they want to have the advantage. If blog owners would start rewarding the legitimate blog commentors, maybe a great deal of spam would be cut down on.
#9 Yeah, I hate deleting those
Yeah, I hate deleting those "nice post" comments all the time. I can't believe these guys actually think their posts will be approved. However, they do sometimes, drives me nuts.
#10 no problem We check the
no problem
We check the comments and see if they are genuine or not, related to the article or not, and automated or not.
if someone reads the article and write a comment, then i leave his/her backlink (if it's not a link farm and something spammy.)
#11 Just wanted to say
First off this is a genuine post :-) I wanted to touch on the issue of Google knowing which back links are coming from the same webmaster and which aren't. It seems to me that Google would have no way of really knowing for sure if the links are from the same webmaster if they have different ips because of sites like hostgator that host hundreds of sites on the same server. It's very possible some of those sites have a back link to your site even though you don't own it.
However I can see it would be very suspicious if there were multiple sites on the same server with multiple links to your site then the probability of it being owned by the same webmaster goes through the roof.
#12 Reseller Account Helps
This is one of the problems I've come up against and I'm moving to a reseller account and moving all my clients over to it. It means less money in hosting fees, but the backlink benefits should outweigh it.
I do still manage the Analytics accounts all together, so I'll have to see what happens, but having the sites on different IPs should be a huge help.
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