{"id":13349,"date":"2014-05-24T12:43:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T17:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13349"},"modified":"2014-05-24T12:43:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T17:43:19","slug":"on-metafilter-being-penalized-by-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13349","title":{"rendered":"On MetaFilter Being Penalized By Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The truth is more likely that it\u2019s less to do with his site and more to do with Google seeing a pattern of what it considers to be unnatural linking by the publishers it is contacting. As Haughey guesses, it\u2019s more likely that MetaFilter is \u201ccollateral damage,\u201d with the damage being the annoying link removal requests rather than any real distrust of the site. That\u2019s especially since its ranking drop seems to well predate these requests.<\/p>\n<p>But it is worrisome, especially when Haughey <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/technology-musings\/941d15ec96f0\">writes<\/a> about how much care apparently goes into trying to ensure all links are relevant:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/metafilter-penalized-google-192168\">On MetaFilter Being Penalized By Google: An Explainer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Earn respect. That\u2019s your best defense if things go south with Google. It\u2019s also your best offense for doing well in Google<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The truth is more likely that it\u2019s less to do with his site and more to do with Google seeing a pattern of what it considers to be unnatural linking by the publishers it is contacting. As Haughey guesses, it\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13349\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[670,970,1248,283],"class_list":["post-13349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-algorithms","tag-comment-systems","tag-seo","tag-tech-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13350,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13349\/revisions\/13350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}