Link development & Spam mass
09 Nov 05: Four extremely intelligent Californians, Zoltan Gyongyi, Pavel Berkhin, Hector Garcia-Molina, and Jan Pedersen, released a whitepaper discussing a possible method to identify links from spam domains. Their method sheds light on some very interesting ideas on how Google might judge the quality of inbound links.
Good links Vs Bad links
Since the Jagger update, Google seems to be emphasizing link relevance and link quality a lot more. While relevance is pretty straight forward to understand, quality of an inbound link may be a foreign subject to those not involved in search engine marketing as part of their daily lives. So let’s first discuss good links versus bad links. Not all links are equal. Links from popular sites carry more weight than links from virtually unknown sites.
It is a well-known fact that Google’s initial success lay in their ability to find websites and rank them based on links from other websites. As Google’s popularity grew, some webmasters tried to outsmart the Google algorithm by falsely inflating the importance of their website with unnatural inbound link development....