Comments on: A Quick Clarification on the Bad Neighborhood Detector

By: Gil

Gil — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:52:00 +0000

Very nice tool. I used it check several sites that had left comments related to dentistry on my blog that were non-dentistry related sites. I was surprised to find most that I had accepted were legit with about 1,000 links and either “0″ or “1″ bad link. So it reinforced my judgement that I had deleted the bad sites and left the good sites as links. One exception, was a blog site that discussed the effects of various drugs complete with chemical formulas–it had only 22 links of which 4 were considered bad. However, I left the link because the content was not related to any the pharma or adult type links. It was a judgement call which I think is OK.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:03:30 +0000

This was an amazing find – although some of our pages are flagged by your code we’re not worried as the explanation you provide about how this tool works is really helpful. We are still a young company, learning seo as we go – we make page 1 of the big G on about 25% of our key words and phrases so we are getting better at targeting our work. We’ll be back to make sure none of the of spam gets past us. Thank you BN.

Jon

By: AWM-Magazin

AWM-Magazin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:55:51 +0000

Really helpfull tool, especially for a beginner like me!
thx a lot!

By: korki

korki — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:18:26 +0000

Thanks for sharing such optional information but some of my sites was declined as bad naighborhood by your tool. It’s not bad but almost all my site are ideally for Google. It’ even funny

By: THOMAS SPENCER

THOMAS SPENCER — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:41:26 +0000

yes this was a good read BUT my feeling on bad neighborhood links are that 2.0 Internet is changing so fast that your ideas and theories will be disregarded in 1 year from now. the internet2.0 has the ability to Chang over night.
what that sad i do agree with you on bad neighborhood. i also thing that spam some day we become an source of artificial intelligences. lol

By: Michael VanDeMar

Michael VanDeMar — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:11:44 +0000

@Janet – no, I would not delete the AddThis button.

@Vivian – I get a strong feeling that you completely ignored the contents of this post before deciding to comment. It is for people such as yourself who do not understand the Bad Neighborhood tool that this post was written. Please take the time to read it. Thank you.

By: Vivian Zabel

Vivian Zabel — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:05:12 +0000

I’m quite upset that you decided my site was a “bad neighborhood.” I think you are causing much trouble and headaches for people who do not deserve it.

Just what decent people need, to be branded a bad place to link.

By: Janet

Janet — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:41:31 +0000

I ran the test and the “AddThis” button which links you to all the social networking sites and is pretty handy comes up as linked to many bad sites. Any suggestions on if I should delete this from our websites?

By: Rob - Hornchurch

Rob - Hornchurch — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:00:19 +0000

A very handy tool, but I’ve found living in esSEX, a lot of my pages come up as questionable!

Cheers

Rob

By: Mark Montoya

Mark Montoya — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:54:58 +0000

Could you clarify the Google rules on Bad Neighbors. I think that my Gmail account and my conversation between potential partners lead to my removal from Google search- do you think this is possible?
Also, is there a number of bad links that would lead to a Google censorship? I’m just curious your advice for how to walk the line between getting the benefits of links without censorship.
Finally, it appears that many sites that look ‘bad’ based on BN criteria actually have high Alexa and/or Google rankings… any help?

Thanks!
Mark Montoya