{"id":39,"date":"2010-12-07T04:22:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T04:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2011-03-19T05:13:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T05:13:17","slug":"being-bad-to-your-customers-is-bad-for-seo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2010\/12\/being-bad-to-your-customers-is-bad-for-seo\/","title":{"rendered":"Being bad to your customers is bad for SEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Being bad to your customers is bad for SEO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Were          you following the saga of the latest SEO-hacking creep? Google has announced          it <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/being-bad-to-your-customers-is-bad-for.html\" target=\"_blank\">changed             its algorithms<\/a> to detect bad actors.<\/p>\n<p>However, <em>Search Engine Land<\/em> explains how this man <a href=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/no-you-cant-rank-well-just-by-cultivating-terrible-reviews-57333\" target=\"_blank\">did             not really benefit<\/a> from link equity from bad reviews&#8230; it was             through several SEO tricks. Two different stories going on.<\/p>\n<p>You can study how a site obtained its google ranking via <a href=\"http:\/\/siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo!             Site Explorer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, the seller <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/07\/business\/07borker.html?nl=todaysheadlines&amp;emc=a26\" target=\"_blank\">did          get arrested<\/a>. Justice to be served, finally, thanks to media exposure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being bad to your customers is bad for SEO Were you following the saga of the latest SEO-hacking creep? Google has announced it changed its algorithms to detect bad actors. However, Search Engine Land explains how this man did not really benefit from link equity from bad reviews&#8230; it was through several SEO tricks. Two &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2010\/12\/being-bad-to-your-customers-is-bad-for-seo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Being bad to your customers is bad for SEO&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news","category-search-engine-optimization"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p415hC-D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}