Google Warning About Bad Links

Beware that Google is watching so closely for unnatural or artificial links that they may even send you a warning. There have been webmasters reporting getting a warning one of which follows:

Dear site owner or webmaster of ….

We’ve detected that some of your site’s pages may be using techniques that are outside Google’s Webmaster Guidelines.

Specifically, look for possibly artificial or unnatural links pointing to your site that could be intended to manipulate PageRank. Examples of unnatural linking could include buying links to pass PageRank or participating in link schemes.

We encourage you to make changes to your site so that it meets our quality guidelines. Once you’ve made these changes, please submit your site for reconsideration in Google’s search results.

If you find unnatural links to your site that you are unable to control or remove, please provide the details in your reconsideration request.

If you have any questions about how to resolve this issue, please see our Webmaster Help Forum for support.

Sincerely,

Google Search Quality Team

In the past Google has “silently distrusted” sites that are posting unnatural links, but now it’s being more outspoken about such offenses. This makes it more important than ever to make sure that you are getting genuine links and relying on your quality content to get true links…Google is watching you!

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