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reciprocal linking: Matt Cutts of Google Penalizing Real Estate Websites - Part 3 - 07/07/07 12:10 PM
I wrote a blog post recently about being penalized by Google for having state pages with excessive reciprocal links with other Realtors.  You can read more about it here: part 1 & part 2.
The good news is that I came out of the penalty box today and looks as though I came back where I left off.  I rank # 1 in Google for "Sarasota real estate" and bunch of other phrases.  The 60 day mark is July 9th as I was penalized May 9th.
Be careful with the useless reciprocal linking with each other. Matt Cutts of Google is very clear … (12 comments)

reciprocal linking: Do you only post in Active Rain for the links? - 06/29/07 10:58 AM
I would be interested to hear how many of you are posting in Active Rain only to get the links to your website. Be honest, are you only posting for the links? I think the majority of the posts are done so for search engine purposes. With Google starting to take action against real estate websites who do excessive reciprocal linking I wonder if they will eventually devalue the links that come from social networks as well. Since the links can come with some valuable content I doubt Google would devalue them completely.
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reciprocal linking: Matt Cutts of Google Penalizing Real Estate Websites - Part 2 - 06/23/07 06:41 AM
I recently wrote a post about how Google is targeting and penalizing Realtor websites for excessive reciprocal linking. You can read about it here.
Executive summary:
Google gives more weight to websites that have good inbound links However, Google does not like link schemes designed to increase a site's ranking - reciprocal linking with hundreds of Realtors across the country Matt Cutts heads up the Google web spam team and enforces the Google webmaster guidelines Matt Cutts has mentioned in the past that he does not like the excessive reciprocal linking that Realtors engage in to pump up their results. I have … (8 comments)

reciprocal linking: Matt Cutts of Google Penalizing Real Estate Websites - Part 1 - 06/22/07 06:11 AM
Executive summary of this post:
Google gives more weight to websites that have good inbound links However, Google does not like link schemes designed to increase a site's ranking - reciprocal linking with hundreds of Realtors across the country Matt Cutts heads up the Google web spam team and enforces the Google webmaster guidelines Matt Cutts has mentioned in the past that he does not like the excessive reciprocal linking that Realtors engage in to pump up their results. I have a website focusing on real estate in Sarasota, Florida Advanced Access (AA) is a very large Realtor website provider AA hired Greg Boser, … (53 comments)

 
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