Google Targets Link Sellers In Recent Link Network Bust

Your Rankings Drop Around May 15th? May Be Due To Link Networks Google Broken

Last Wednesday, Matt Cuts has announced on Twitter that Google taken “action on various thousand link sellers in a paid link that push PageRank network."

Google did this similar activity before also. We don’t know which link network affected due to latest action. Various readers were asking me if SAPE links was hit again, but others are asking about a network named ghost. Frankly, I am not sure about this. It looks like it may be carious smaller networks.

I am confirmed about that last Wednesday (May 15th), numerous webmasters began tocomplain about position declines in WebmasterWorld. Here are some quotes:

Also, seeing a significant drop in ranks for a different domain I mentioned in another thread that I was using to test junk links. It's possible we could be seeing a penguin update.

I am also seeing a decent drop on the 14th which seems to be continuing today.

Complaints is still coming and going on.

I am searching out which networks were huts but I can’t look to nail it down to any particular one.

There is a forum Black Hat World, over there people are talking about it but one tell mentioned anything particular and cover outside of few guesses.

Anyone know which link network(s) were kiss by Google?

Google Matt Cutts Doesn't Give Link Value From This Web site

Google's Cutts: Buying Links Doesn't Hurt???

A very recent video from Google's lead of search spam , Matt Cutts named If a website connecting to mine gets detected selling links , what goes on to my site ? That video essentially clarifies what happens if a site that sells links and Google knows it , what happens to a site that has links from the link selling site ?

In a nutshell , little .

Matt Cutts produced three points in this video :

1. The link seller's web site should observe a toolbar PageRank downgrade 30% - 50% .
2. The link seller's web site loses the power to send PageRank going forward .
3. The links directing to your web site from the link seller's web site shall no lontger be counted and no longer help your web site.

But what about link purchasing penalties ? Well , undoubtedly Matt didn't talk about it in his 90 second video. It undoubtedly , regardless of my title , doesn't mean that Google won't dump out a penalty to someone who evidently buys links . But "typically" this is how Google manages it , they simply halt those paid links from assisting you , which can often feel like apenalty .

Here the Video: