Comments on: SEO Tool: Determining If A Site Links To Bad Neighborhoods

By: Data Entry Services

Data Entry Services — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:25:09 +0000

I just went and checked my site and the tool called all my links Blogspam including LinkedIn and the Microsoft support forums. Maybe it’s too stringent.

By: Civil Site Design

Civil Site Design — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:21:32 +0000

Thanks for the insight into this. I was not aware.

By: Dee

Dee — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:34:06 +0000

Thanks for the comment. Great point about blog spam. I ignore that notification if I’m working with blogs.

I don’t usually use the tool for reciprocal exchanges. I use it primarily to determine whether to buy a one-way link from a site.

By the way, great blog. Just subscribed

By: Jim Durbin

Jim Durbin — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:10:05 +0000

Interesting – my sites are filled with blog spam as determined by the site, but then again – all of my sites are blogs!

The Bad Neighborhood warnings were for a site that mentioned a poker game the writer played, and a link to a guy named John SEXtro.

Interesting tool, nonetheless – I Imagine it works much better with traditional commercial sites, but I wonder if it’s not validating reciprocal link strategies instead of content-driven stategies from influential blogs.

You’d think a link from a high-ranked blog would indicate a more “real” endorsement than a link exchange.