{"id":3643,"date":"2014-02-03T16:29:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T16:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherylroll.com\/google-warns-german-webmasters-paid-links-violate-googles-guidelines-183216\/"},"modified":"2014-02-03T16:29:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T16:29:16","slug":"google-warns-german-webmasters-paid-links-violate-googles-guidelines-183216","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherylroll.com\/google-warns-german-webmasters-paid-links-violate-googles-guidelines-183216\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Warns German Webmasters That Paid Links Violate Google&#039;s Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20300%20142'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" alt=\"links-danger-risk-featured\" width=\"300\" height=\"142\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2012\/04\/links-danger-risk-featured-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2012\/04\/links-danger-risk-featured-200x95.jpg 200w, https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2012\/04\/links-danger-risk-featured-150x71.jpg 150w, https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2012\/04\/links-danger-risk-featured-100x47.jpg 100w, https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2012\/04\/links-danger-risk-featured.jpg 570w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2012\/04\/links-danger-risk-featured-300x142.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2012\/04\/links-danger-risk-featured-300x142.jpg\" alt=\"links-danger-risk-featured\" width=\"300\" height=\"142\">Google head of search spam Matt Cutts <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattcutts\/status\/430362459505836032\">posted<\/a> on Twitter this morning another stern warning to German webmasters about a link penalty looming for them.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Cutts tweeted:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The blog post is written in German on the <a href=\"https:\/\/googlewebmastercentral-de.blogspot.ie\/2014\/02\/unnatuerliche-links-antraege-auf-erneute-ueberpruefung.html\">German Webmaster blog<\/a>, which basically says Google reserves the right to issue penalties for unnatural links. It then goes through the process of explaining the types of unnatural links and how to submit a reconsideration request if you were hit.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Google slapped a <a href=\"https:\/\/cherylroll.com\/google-takes-another-link-network-frances-buzzea-182873\">French link network<\/a> and warned that they will be going after a German network in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>This is just one more warning that something big is going to hit German webmasters participating in link networks.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google head of search spam Matt Cutts posted on Twitter this morning another stern warning to German webmasters about a link penalty looming for them. Matt Cutts tweeted: &nbsp; The blog post is written in German on the German Webmaster blog, which basically says Google reserves the right to issue penalties for unnatural links. 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