Google Punishes Blog Link Farms
October 24th, 2007
A major Google page rank update has punished large scale blog link farms and similar sites that engage in heavy cross linking by dramatically cutting their Google page rank scores.Most hit are the llarge scale blog networks that contain hundreds of outgoing links on each page of the blog to other blogs in the network. Previously, such behavior has been rewarded by Google by given a high page rank.
The AOL owned Weblogs Inc and Gadget blog Engadget dropped from PR 7 to PR5, Autoblog (6 to 4) and DownloadSquad (5 to 4).
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