Effect of bad Neighborhood Links

Most people bask in the ignorance that more number of links help increase the page rank of your site in search engines. This is, however, true only to certain extent. If you link to a wrong website while you are at it, then it may affect your ranking in search engines.

Links to spammers can have a negative effect on your rankings in Google and other search engines. But if you have inadvertently linked to a site which is not related to your site, then it may not affect your ranking. In this case Google check your linking pattern and it gives ranking accordingly. There are some websites which are not good in Google’s point of view and if you are getting back links from those websites, then it can have a adverse effect on your Google rankings. Some of the features are given below which are considered as bad by Google. They are:

* The sites that are known as web spammers.
* The sites which are not relevant to the theme of your site.
* The sites which are free for all link pages. If you are getting links from these sites then those links have no value.
* The sites that have automatic linking format

Google statement about bad back links:
There are certain factors regarding bad neighborhood links Google consider during giving penalty to any website. They are-

* Google’s supplemental index has no relation with your outbound links. Google looks for bad neighborhood linking patterns.

* You should check your out-bound links on a regular basis. This is because sometimes your links may send your visitors to some inappropriate places and as a result of this you may lose the trust of your visitors. So to have the visitors return to you, always update your links. It is an effective method to get good rankings in Google.


Links to a wrong website has negative repercussions on your search engine rankings. So, you need to be very careful while approaching link to other websites.