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Originally Posted by beaner
This thread has a significant change in opinion from threads only 2 months back regarding if inbound links do, or do not, harm sites. I remember one thread that I think should just stay buried.
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I just caught this. I think you are confused maybe. There is a difference between "inbound links" and link spam (i.e. building X number of links per day, when and where possible)
"Inbound links" in terms of people linking to your page have no impact on that page for the phrases it links for when its organic. Others have indicated that relevance matters but it doesn't in terms of penalizing the page. In other words, your page does not get penalized because it happens to go viral and all sorts of people are linking to it from all sorts of pages/topic types.
"inbound links" in terms of using tools to build 10,000 links a day to your page at
www.yourdomain.com/mouse-turds.html - which ranks for "mouse turds" using the anchor "mouse turds" as the links anchors will definitely cause that page to drop out of the SERPs for that phrase for a period of time.
It is also true that I can build 10,000 links a day to your page and cause it to drop out of the SERPs. Google has no way of knowing if you are doing the link spam or I am. And no, life's not fair.
So it depends on what one means by "inbound links"