Why Outbound links can Ruin Your Blog and How to avoid?
If you have recently observed the web spam clean up initiatives by Google by updating search algorithms several times, you can assume the importance of having a SEO clean blog to keep up or improve your SERPs. In the recent few months, Google released the Panda update, Penguin update, EMD update and now in the process of releasing the Zebra update.
These are all SE algorithm updates that ensure unethical or undeserving websites are cleaned out from the search engine listings. From a webmaster’s point of view, to ensure that your blog is clean and not pointing or promoting or linking to unwanted areas or websites, even you will require to undergo some cleanup with the changing scenarios.
Importance of Outbound links
Its quite impossible to manually check and avoid all the links being posted on your blog through the comments unlike the links on your blog posts, hence, I would recommend to do a mass cleanup by disabling all the comment links from your comment section using a useful single plugin.
The Disable Author and Comment links plugin, once installed will disable the links added to your website’s comment section prior and after, thereby ensuring your blog’s outbound links are clean and are not pointing to any black hat or malicious websites. This will give Google and other bots an impression that at least you are not promoting or linking to un ethical low quality websites.
let me know your thoughts on the same after implementing and seeing the change. Wishing you all the luck before the Zebra is out of the Jungle!
Thank you for sharing the information on disabling outbound links, i never heard of the Zebra update, thanks for the heads up.. but what is it relating to or going to impact?
Thanks. Its rumoured to be related to Social media related results and related cleanups!
Joshu,
Thanks for the heads up. Now am going to clean up my outbound links and ensure its not linking anywhere spammy! Yep we need to clean up the web from these spammers!!!
As always! Thanks mani.
Yes, yes, the web and this world needs loads of clean up from several fuckers (sorry out of my frustration on something else maybe hehe)!
Hey there..
nice article buddy. Zebra is great to know, i read about it in your forum. Thanks for sharing the plugin, its certainly handy.
regards
Zach
Glad you are following the forum and updates too..
cheers
joshu
Nice post bro.
thanks for the plugin and heads up..