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Doesn't google penalize what they view as attempts to manipulate their algorithm through spamming and link trading. Couldn't this potentially backfire?


Yes of course.

It is basically a variation of:

"Excessive link exchanges ("Link to me and I'll link to you") or partner pages exclusively for the sake of cross-linking"

plus

"Large-scale article marketing or guest posting campaigns with keyword-rich anchor text links"

Source: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356?hl=en


in this case, however, RG is "linking to you" from twitter's domain, while receiving links from the blogger's domain.

To google, this is a one way (non-reciprocal; read: "more valuable") link in RG's favor.


It's a set of many links in the bottom of a page, mostly unrelated to the main content of the post. This lights many red flags in the Google webspam metrics, I'm pretty sure.




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