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"Jezsta Web Productions" <Please-use-our-contact-form (AT) jezsta (DOT) com> wrote:

"John Bokma" <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote in message
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"KimmoA" <kimmoa (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

John Bokma wrote:
Google seems to divide the Internet into good and bad
neighborhoods. Links coming from bad ones seem to have a negative
impact. This however disagrees a statement on their site (IIRC),
that you can't affect ranking of someone else's site in a negative
way.

I know that they claim this, but to be honest, I find it very hard
to believe.

Like I said: it is a contradiction: you can't negatively affect a
site you don't own, yet there are bad neigborhoods.

Well, that is really not what Google states. They say "almost nothing
a competitor can do"
http://www.google.com/support/webmas...y?answer=34449

Meaning that yes, they can be something someone can do to harm your
site.:-)

Putting 2,000 links in a bad neighborhood doesn't sound to me like "almost
nothing" though.

I mean:

0) buy a black hat
1) create a bad neighborhood
2) sell links
3) ????
4) profit!


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