"Blog spam" identification - Consequences - Remedy?

[GAustralia]

Hello Search watch.

I would like to know
1) Consequences of linking to a site identified with "blog spam" using a tool listed below.

2) Consequence of getting a link from a site marked with "blog spam."

3) If you have a site identified with "blog spam" how do you get any potential "blog spam" ranking penalty removed? It could be members of a company doing the right thing yet unrelated parties causing blog spam issues.

First the tool: http://www. bad-neighbor hood. com/text-link-tool.htm [note: spaces put in]

So if I know a company that has a site tagged with "blog spam" and they are not ranking - yet with a relatively high PR of 5 -do I tell them to get a new domain name to play the ranking game?

GAustralia

[AussieWebmaster]

changing domain name will not work because you will need to 301 redirect to the new site from the old to keep the PR. Sometimes you are marked by a shared host - if others there are doing wrong... so moving the hosting can help.

links to you from those sites should not impact you as your competitors could be doing it... they just don't pass anything to your site

[GAustralia]

Aussie-

Interesting. The "blog spam" site is a .com site. 301 redirect to keep page rank - yet if that 5 PR is not doing anything anyway then perhaps other workarounds may be considered. How about a .com.au site, hosted separately, perhaps 50% of the content unique with country focus but links back to the .com site for regional Asia focus for certain information. It is another question of mine how distinict must two websites be for Google to consider them separately. A separate .com.au site may address country ranking, yet the regional ranking is still of issue to corporate. Then there is the blog spam identification - how long must a company wait for this to go away - and you point out that competitors may be behind the monkey business [that is why links from blogspam site have no penalty]. Any benefit of reciprocal linking with a "blog spam" identified site?

GAustralia

[AussieWebmaster]

no benefits recip linking to any spam site... recips should be kept to very relevant sites with good trust rank

[GAustralia]

Hello AussieWebmaster -

Ok no reciprocal links benefit to good sized legitimate business with URL tagged with blog spam.

Then the potential works around for that business to have a go at appearing in the organic ranking are - ?

GAustralia

[AussieWebmaster]

You can do press releases through places like Web PR and get solid links from people writing about news in the industry as well as a couple of text links you can have it the release itself

[GAustralia]

Hello Aussie -

No doubt there is gold in your suggestion about WebPR.

Yet I am interested in your suggestion about the blogspam tagged site. The work around? Does it have to be a new domain? Maybe you do not have a definite answer so you may qualify suggestions.

I have found some detriment with links with the site. They link to a new site (still page 6) and it impacts ranking perhaps 6 spots for perhaps two weeks. Perhaps this is all part of the Google formula for the number/quality of inbound links established in a given period compared to the number of outbound links. Trying to think like Google.

Blogspam site remedy?

GAustralia.