*Google is Breaking the Internet** * /Jeremy Palmer/ 18 May 2014 I received an interesting email the other day from a company we linked to from one of our websites. In short, the email was a request to remove links from our site to their site. We linked to this company on our own accord, with no prior solicitation, because we felt it would be useful to our site visitors, which is generally why people link to things on the Internet. Apparently Google convinced them, via their Webmaster Tools portal, that the link looked "unnatural", and that they should use the Link Disavow Tool <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFJZXpnsRsc> to discredit the link. Furthermore, they thought it necessary to contact us to manually remove the link, which is something I'm not going to do (out of principle). For the last 10 years, Google has been instilling and spreading irrational fear into webmasters. They've convinced site owners that any link, outside of a purely editorial link from an "authority site", could be flagged as a bad link, and subject the site to ranking and/or index penalties. This fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) campaign has webmasters everywhere doing unnatural things, which is what Google claims they're trying to stop. [...] Continua qui: http://jeremypalmer.com/post/86123982870/google-is-breaking-the-internet