{"id":23908,"date":"2007-08-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/simplified-chinese-blog-avoid-auto-generated-links\/"},"modified":"2007-08-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T00:00:00","slug":"simplified-chinese-blog-avoid-auto-generated-links","status":"publish","type":"ar_kb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/simplified-chinese-blog-avoid-auto-generated-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Simplified Chinese blog: Avoid auto-generated links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gargardate\">2007-08-01<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"characteristics-of-quality-sites\" tabindex=\"-1\">Characteristics of quality sites<\/h2>\n<p>\n  Quality sites are rich in compelling content and are kept up-to-date. These sites attract natural<br \/>\n  links from other webmasters, and obtain higher clickthrough rates from users. Natural links are<br \/>\n  one factor Google uses to determine PageRank&mdash;but many webmasters mistakenly interpret that<br \/>\n  concept as &#8220;the more backlinks you have, the higher your site should rank.&#8221; This theory is<br \/>\n  incorrect.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Google&#8217;s ranking algorithms consider many factors in evaluating a website, not just their<br \/>\n  backlinks, but also distinguishing organic versus auto-generated links. A prominent example of our<br \/>\n  algorithm calculating more than links alone can be seen in the<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duhugu.org\/\" class=\"external-link\">May 2007 DuHuGu Contest<\/a>.<br \/>\n  The winning site (that ranked number one on Google) had about 3,600 backlinks in total, while<br \/>\n  many other sites with lower ranking contained greater than 10,000 backlinks. Most likely, many of<br \/>\n  these links were auto-generated.\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-are-auto-generated-links\" tabindex=\"-1\">What are auto-generated links?<\/h2>\n<p>We commonly see two types:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>spamware generated links<\/li>\n<li>programs provided by some domains for automatically adding links<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example of spamware used to automatically generate links in a guestbook entry:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"example of spamware used to automatically generate links in a guestbook entry\" src=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-f7c58d522741.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example of programmatically adding links:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"example of programmatically added links\" src=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-da69ad9bae65.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<p>\n  Notice the awkward links with the anchor text<br \/>\n  <span>&#8220;\u8868&#8221;<\/span> and <span>&#8220;\u4e0a\u6c7d&#8221;<\/span>.\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"our-take-against-auto-generated-linking\" tabindex=\"-1\">Our take against auto-generated linking<\/h2>\n<p>\n  Sites that participate in link buying, self-service linking, and using programs to automatically<br \/>\n  generate links run the risk of violating our<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/search-essentials-overview\/\">Google webmaster guidelines<\/a>.<br \/>\n  Please be aware that if you auto-generate links, your site can be treated in the following ways:\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Google will not give credit for auto-generated links.<\/li>\n<li>\n    When we detect that a site has unnaturally generated their own backlinks, the site&#8217;s ranking can<br \/>\n    be negatively affected and can be removed from our index.\n  <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\n  Again, webmasters should focus on creating strong content and building natural links. For more<br \/>\n  information on building a quality website, please visit<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/40349\" class=\"external-link\">How to create a Google friendly site<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-author\">Posted by Jianfei Zhu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2007-08-01 Characteristics of quality sites Quality sites are rich in compelling content and are kept up-to-date. These sites attract natural links from other webmasters, and obtain higher clickthrough rates from users. 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