Google knows a great deal about your and your Web sites. As competition for eyeballs on the Web gets more intense, there’s a temptation be outrageous just to get links and exposure.
On the story Sphinn – The greatest example of linkbait…………ever?! Matt Cutts of Google comments:
“‘Where does Cutt’s and search engines stand on something like this?’
My quick take is that Google’s webmaster guidelines allow for cases such as this: ‘Google may respond negatively to other misleading practices not listed here (e.g. tricking users by registering misspellings of well-known websites). It’s not safe to assume that just because a specific deceptive technique isn’t included on this page, Google approves of it.’
There’s not much more deceptive or misleading than a fake story without any disclosure that the story is hoax.”
“Linkbait” may just turn into poison-bait if a site is banned in Google.
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