Backlink penalties
Google's detection and punishment of artificial or low-quality backlinks bought from marketplaces. Every SEO Weekly story on backlink penalties, newest first. 3 stories since September 2026.
- More sites are getting hand-issued Google penalties
One well known SEO says the penalties are landing on ordinary businesses, not just obvious spam sites.
- 131 SEO experts name relevance and links as top factors
It is expert opinion rather than data from Google, and one SEO says parts of it are nonsense.
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- Buying cheap backlinks can quietly sink your site
A new marketplace sells links for pennies, and several well known SEOs say the sites buying them will pay for it later.
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