Answers from Yahoo!
Answers from Yahoo! Yahoo-MikeNo, Sites are not demoted based upon incoming links. The only exception is if a site is part of a reciprocal link system / link farm that only provide inlinks if the site has corresponding outlinks. So you are not in violation simply because other unrelated sites are linking to you and therefore another site can't sabotage you. However, questionable incoming links can serve as a red flag for our Editorial Team to evaluate a site.
It generally comes down to pretty simple questions to ask yourself. Are sites linking to your site because it creates value for their visitors? Are the sites you are linking to adding value for your visitors? That applies to both the quality and the quantity of links (ie. having 100 good quality links isn't necessarily a better experience than have a smaller number of links). ...
So, a competitor could cause your site to be flagged for editorial review by the Yahoo site review team by placing links to your site on questionable sites without your consent?
But as long as we don't link back to the questionable site(s) we should be safe, right?
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Yes, you are correct. If there was a lot of questionable links into your site, it might get the attention of our editors. But it would not affect how they judged your site unless you were linking back or it was discovered you were part of a link farm.
Bottom line is someone else can't hurt your site by linking to it without your consent.
posted by Jen @ 9:43 AM
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