.: Penalizing Top Related Articles
1). Link To a Bad Neighborhood and Get Penalized
The bottom line is - "If you link to sites that are banned by Google for spamming, you are inviting the risk of getting banned for linking to a bad neighbor."
So first we should know that what is a bad neighborhood and how can we know that a site is a bad neighbor to link to before you get penalized by the search engines.
Bad neighbors are those websites who use unethical methods to get high rankings or are banned by the search engines for spamming.
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