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What happens if I link to a good page that later becomes spammy?

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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

    NikoisBack 3 weeks ago

    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

    MrGintarasxxx 8 months ago

    bla bla,shit

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  • serialstv

    serialstv 11 months ago

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

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  • Valerie Lynn

    Valerie Lynn 11 months ago

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

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  • Vipin jha

    Vipin jha 1 year ago

    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

    brguest42 1 year ago

    Matt loves talking porn.

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  • Cheta Manuel

    Cheta Manuel 1 year ago

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

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