Many webmasters think that low quality links or links from spammy websites can have a negative effect on the ranking of their websites on Google.
The problem with links from spammy websites is that it is very difficult to do something against them. For example, a competitor could add your website to a link farm network or the competitor could spam with your URL.
Google has released an official statement about spammy links
This month, Google published an official statement about low quality links in their webmaster blog. Here are the main statements:
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New York, N.Y., Oct. 19, 2009 – Experian® Hitwise® announced today that Google search properties accounted for 80.46 percent of all Canadian searches conducted in the 12 weeks ending Oct. 3, 2009. Yahoo! search properties, Bing search properties and Ask search properties received 7.99 percent, 7.65 percent and 3.09 percent, respectively. The remaining 46 search engines in the Experian Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1 percent of Canadian searches.
Percentage of Canadian searches among leading search engine providers
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