Comments on: Bad neighborhoods: how do you recognize them?

By: Bulding Links Case Study: Why links are important to you

Bulding Links Case Study: Why links are important to you — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:53:37 +0000

[...] web is divided by “neighborhoods” relative to their theme as well as quality. Google makes reference to “bad neighborhoods” [...]

By: Linking out to other blogs

Linking out to other blogs — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:10:42 +0000

[...] sake. First is to really care about what you are linking to. This is not about linking to kind of a bad neighbourhood as an SEO issue, but it´s about only linking to high quality content. Remember, that putting a [...]

By: Wave Shoppe

Wave Shoppe — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:43:17 +0000

I can’t really agree with that. All that means is that the link submitter was using poor judgment; you would only be waiving any potential for indicating relevance. But I wouldn’t consider that to be playing in a bad neighborhood. Certainly not by definition.