Google Debunks Link Sabotage Theories | WebProNews
Google Debunks Link Sabotage Theories | WebProNews
Poor quality rather than bad links causes site ranking woes, they claim The search engine thinks the apocryphal talk about webmasters being able to wreck their competitors by creating bad links to them is just a bunch of talk. One webmaster who believes he has suffered at the hands of such “Googlebowling” tactics isn’t convinced that Google looks closely enough at potential abuse coming from specially crafted inbound links. At Search Engine Roundtable, the assertion exists that a little sneakiness by a webmaster will be the only item needed to build and target a rival, and drop it from Google’s rankings. A post at Google Groups detailed how the targeted webmaster would experience such a sudden loss:

