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Published on May 21, 2012

Site A links to Site B because Site B has content that would be useful to Site A's end users, and Google indexes the appropriate page. After the page is indexed, Site B's content changes and becomes spammy. Does Site A incur a penalty in this case? MrTVTL, Toronto

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  • NikoisBack

    I got a directory and something like 10% of the outgoing links were spams; For that i lost all my traffic

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  • MrGintarasxxx

    bla bla,shit

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  • serialstv

    I trusted you Matt, Not anymore. Doodle is evil :-(.

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  • Valerie Lynn

    heh heh... "going 404" Luv that. Thanks Matt.

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  • Vipin jha

    I want to ask a question there are lot of site that are automatically add other site to many link more than 500 or 1000 like updonner.com is it harm full for site or counted to be spam

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  • brguest42

    Matt loves talking porn.

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  • Cheta Manuel

    Guess the category should have been Internet, not science and tech :)) Thanks for the advice.

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