Unnatural outbound links

  • Resolved webitman

    (@webitman)


    8 years, 4 months ago

    Unnatural outbound links from your site violate Google Webmaster Guidelines.
    Google has detected a pattern of links from your site to other sites that is either unnatural or irrelevant. This pattern attempts to artificially boost other sites’ ranking in Google Search results. Such unnatural ranking would cause search results to show preference for results not relevant to the user’s actual query. It also violates Google Webmaster Guidelines. Therefore, we are discounting the trust in links on your site. This manual spam action has been applied to yoursite.com/. To fix this, remove the unnatural links on your site and file a reconsideration request. After we determine that you have complied with our guidelines, we will remove this manual action.

    Does anyone can confirm this action of Google ?

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  • Plugin Author Lucian Apostol

    (@thedark)

    Hello. You think that links generated by Auto Affiliate Plugin caused this warning ? If this is the case, the plugin offers you an option to make affiliate link nofollow. This tag will notify google that you don’t want to boost the linking sites rankings in order to manipulate search results.

    So far, this never happened to anyone using Auto Affiliate Links. This is the first time I hear. Auto Affiliate Links display links on keywords that you select. Maybe the cause was the links you linked to. If those sites were known to buy links this might be the cause.

    Also, you should limit the number of times each link is shown on each page. Maybe displaying the same link many times can cause problems.

    I think you should contact google so you can clear this out and see what links were causing problems and why: the type of link, the number of times they are linked to.

    Thread Starter webitman

    (@webitman)

    Hello Lucian,
    Sorry for the remark, but I had to ask, because like you I also thought it’s strange.
    You are right. The plugin has been activated again and thanks for the support.
    Best regards,
    Alfred

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