{"id":658162,"date":"2013-05-15T13:39:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T17:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=230168"},"modified":"2013-05-15T13:39:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T17:39:47","slug":"google-just-took-out-thousands-of-linksellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/658162","title":{"rendered":"Google Just Took Out Thousands Of Linksellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, Google&#8217;s Matt Cutts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/matt-cutts-talks-about-penguin-panda-and-a-bunch-of-changes-google-has-in-the-works-2013-05\">ran down a bunch of new stuff<\/a> Google&#8217;s web spam team is working on. Cutts tweeted an extension of that today, noting that Google will continue to tackle link networks, and that in fact, they just took action on &#8220;several thousand linksellers&#8221; today. <\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"> div.twitterditto334553589286584321 { background: #000000 url(http:\/\/a0.twimg.com\/images\/themes\/theme10\/bg.gif) no-repeat; padding: 20px; } div.twitterditto334553589286584321 a { color: #383838; } div.twitter-inner-ditto334553589286584321 { background: #fff; padding: 10px 12px 10px 30px; margin: 0; min-height: 48px; color: #000; font-size: 22px !important; font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", Times, serif; line-height: 30px; -moz-border-radius: 5px; -webkit-border-radius: 5px; } div.twitter-inner-ditto334553589286584321 div.metadata { display: block; width: 100%; clear: both; margin-top: 8px; padding: 12px 0px; height: 55px; } div.twitter-inner-ditto334553589286584321 div.follow-button { float: right; padding: 0 30px 0 0; } div.twitter-inner-ditto334553589286584321 div.metadata div.author { line-height: 20px; 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} p.indent { margin-left: 20px; } div.twitter-inner-ditto334559324179406848 span.name { font-weight: bold; } div.twitter-inner-ditto334559324179406848 span.at-name a,div.twitter-inner-ditto334559324179406848 span.at-name a:visited, div.twitter-inner-ditto334559324179406848 span.at-name a:hover { color: #999; text-decoration: none; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; } <\/style>\n<div class=\"twitterditto334559324179406848\">\n<div class=\"twitter-inner-ditto334559324179406848\">\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"follow-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattcutts\" class=\"twitter-follow-button\" data-show-count=\"false\"> Follow @mattcutts <\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mattcutts\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/3570465295\/b2d56caae1ce11258301a5946a1d9a9e_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span class=\"name\"> Matt Cutts <\/span><br \/><span class=\"at-name\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mattcutts\" class=\"at-name\">@mattcutts<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tweet\"> In fact, we took action on several thousand linksellers in a paid-link-that-passes-PageRank network earlier today. <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"timestamp\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?in_reply_to=334559324179406848\" class=\"twitreply\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span>Reply<\/a> &nbsp;&middot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/retweet?tweet_id=334559324179406848\" class=\"retweet\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span>Retweet<\/a> &nbsp;&middot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/favorite?tweet_id=334559324179406848\" class=\"favorite\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span>Favorite<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/mattcutts\/status\/334559324179406848\" title=\"Wed May 15 06:42:13 +0000 2013\">10 hours ago<\/a> via web&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/socialditto.com\/\">@socialditto<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Let the good times roll. <\/p>\n<p>Webmasters continue to anxiously await an upcoming, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/google-penguin-update-gets-ready-to-bite-webmasters-noses-penguin-2-0-2013-05\">bigger version of the Penguin update<\/a>, and Cutts also indicated that Panda would be easing up a bit. <\/p>\n<p>As part of Cutts&#8217; 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Already, the webspam team is making good on its word. <\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=7gS6gDJsMYY:w7GlZvbwgTw:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=7gS6gDJsMYY:w7GlZvbwgTw:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=7gS6gDJsMYY:w7GlZvbwgTw:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=7gS6gDJsMYY:w7GlZvbwgTw:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=7gS6gDJsMYY:w7GlZvbwgTw:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=7gS6gDJsMYY:w7GlZvbwgTw:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=7gS6gDJsMYY:w7GlZvbwgTw:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=7gS6gDJsMYY:w7GlZvbwgTw:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=7gS6gDJsMYY:w7GlZvbwgTw:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/7gS6gDJsMYY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, Google&#8217;s Matt Cutts ran down a bunch of new stuff Google&#8217;s web spam team is working on. 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