Comments on: The Great Penguin Attack of ’14 That Wasn’t https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/the-great-penguin-attack-of-14-that-wasnt/ A look at how trends in communication technology impact individuals and organizations. Fri, 27 Jan 2023 14:00:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Kurt Steinbrueck https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/the-great-penguin-attack-of-14-that-wasnt/#comment-743360 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 17:21:23 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/?p=48622#comment-743360 In reply to pdstein.

It could be. We really don't know. What we do know is that what Google is trying to do is extremely difficult and there are tons of ways they can not only fail to accomplish what they want (removing spammy link value), but also make things worse both for their results and by destroying people's online businesses by mistake. So, if they can get webmasters to fix the links for them by giving the appearance of a threat, I'm sure they'd be happy to do it.

]]> By: pdstein https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/the-great-penguin-attack-of-14-that-wasnt/#comment-743347 Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:19:14 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/?p=48622#comment-743347 We've had a few people contact us recently and ask us to remove links that are perfectly legitimate. It makes me wonder if Google wasn't trying to scare site owners into removing or nofollow'ing links they think may be in a gray area for fear of a penalty. Sometimes dramatic warnings can be more effective in changing behavior than enforcement.

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