subject: What is Bad Link Neighborhood [print this page] Bad link neighborhood refers to linking to sites that offer illegal content. Illegal content are content that promote negative influences such as cigarette, drugs, alcohol, sex toys, poker, pharmacy and etc. By linking to the illegal sites, you are acknowledging that you associate with these websites. Even if your site don't offer illegal content, the search engine will still penalize you because you are associating with bad neighborhood. Some general directories require you to put a reciprocal link to their websites. Linking out too many times can affect your SERP ranking. Before linking back to the directories, you should check the URL. The website which you are to link to should not have illegal content. If the site contain illegal content, you should not link to it. When exchanging links with people, make sure the website offer relevant content. You should never exchange links with site that offer illegal content.
Besides exchanging links with people, you can link out to other websites without asking a link back. You should take the initiative to point to relevant sites in your article. By linking to relevant sites, people will regard you as a professional. Most of the authoritative blogs will link out to other websites. If a blog only put anchor links that point within the internal pages, it will not do well in the search engine. In fact, the search engines recommend that you often point to relevant sites. You can include links to relevant sites within your blog post. For example, if you are creating a post about the top 10 video sites, you can include link to the video sites. You don't have to assign a dofollow attribute to the link. The links should have a nofollow attribute. In this way, you will not leak the pagerank of your homepage.
FFA site is a type of link farm that contain all kinds of links. It publish an advertisement for a period of time. Some FFA site are good because they don't allow bad link neighborhood. However, most of the FFA sites encourage bad link neighborhood. There are hundreds and thousands of FFA sites. It may be easy to blast all your site to all the FFA sites. However, doing so can destroy your ranking in a short time as well. The advertisement on the FFA site usually last for 1 7 days. After that, the advertisement will automatically be removed from the FFA sites. FFA (Free for All) sites don't charge a fee for publishing the advertisements. Many websites use FFA sites to post their links. Most FFA sites don't have restriction regarding the types of links that are allowed. Thus, many people post URLs of site with illegal content on the FFA sites. Examples of illegal content include pornography, gambling, poker and etc. Due to this fact, FFA sites are always associated with the bad neighborhood. It is not recommended that you submit your site to the FFA link farms. Submitting your site to the FFA sites with bad link neighborhood will cause your site to drop in the SERP. Even though your site is not illegal, associating with site that have bad neighborhood will cause your site to get banned.
