Some are finding this confusing, a sign that Google’s perhaps mixed up in the signals it’s sending. While Google wouldn’t comment about MyBlogGuest specifically, it did say that one reasonable explanation anyone running a network might consider, if hit with a penalty for links pointing to their own site, is that as part of investigating the network or service, bad inbound links might also have been found.<\/p>\n

So while Google seems to have not issued a warning to the network for being the source of the penalty, it may have issued a notification that the network itself is linking back to itself and thus has unnatural links pointing to the site.<\/p>\n

Either way, you can see why these notifications get confusing, while they should have been getting easier to understand.<\/p>\n

Nearly a year after Google’s Matt Cutts told us penalty notifications will get clearer, including more actual examples of what a problem is, it seems as if the notifications have gotten harder to understand. I spend a lot of time following penalties issued by Google through examples given to me via email, penalties publicizes on blogs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[32],"class_list":{"0":"post-3375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-platforms","8":"tag-platforms"},"yoast_head":"\n