Linking to bad neighborhoods

[deptijefsa]

So here's a question: if its bad to link to a bad neighborhood, which I think its fairly safe to assume, then is it bad to link to a page that links to a bad neighborhood?Let me make this clearer and just put a few definitions up for the sake of discussion.Bad neighborhood: A website that has been penalized by Google.What we can assume:1) linking directly to a bad neighborhood is 'bad'.What we don't really know:1) Is linking to a page that links to a bad neighborhood 'bad'?2) Is linking to a site that contains a page that links to a bad neighborhood 'bad'?3) How many clicks away from a bad neighborhood is safe?If we know these answers, then we can determine when link exchanges are safe and good for pr and serps, as opposed to shooting oneself in the foot.So...anyone have facts?Personally, I think "bad neighborhood" is a term that Google'spublic relations department dreamed up in order to make usparanoid, heh.They know that we can't avoid "bad" sites if they don't define"bad".BompaJust don't link to sites that look spammypaulk wrote:For ex: Sites that have like 100 links down below unrelated to the content and that uses a lot of keyword stuffinghttp://www.google.co.uk/webmasters/seo.html wrotepps. that is bad luck.Google will "drop" u if you use non ethical procedures.. and now for sure Bompa will ask what do I mean by non ethical ... Bompa wroteompei wrote:And you would want to avoid getting links to your site from bad neighborhoods (which is probably more common than linking TO bad neighborhoods).I guess it would work as "negative PR". Just as a link from a high PR site helps, links from "negative PR" sites will hurt you.It sem mposible no get links from bad neighbourhoods