
Why did the October spam update crush so many sites? Important for all SEOs and website owners!
Search News You Can Use - SEO Podcast with Marie Haynes
Search Engine Optimization
Many sites that were hit by the October spam update very clearly had a network of sites that were interlinking. I could see the patterns with my eyes. Google's guidelines talk about excessive link exchange. It says link to me and I'll link to you or partner pages exclusively for the sake of cross-linking. And when you look at these sites that are linking in this network, Google tells us that they don't have any information about other people talking about this website or this business. This was super obvious that this was a network that was designed for SEO purposes.
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