(Entry was posted by Edwin Jonk on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 06/25/2015).

Diversity filtering

" Linked to from Boilerplate "

" It appears that when someone links to another site from boilerplate sections of pages, Google may view that as an indication of low quality for the sites being linked to. "

" Diversity filtering "

" If your site provides a resource that links to a specific site, and does so on a number of pages, Google may only count one of those links, and discard the rest of them " How Google May Classify Sites as Low Quality Sites

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Edwin Jonk: " Linked to from Boilerplate "

" It appears that when someone links to another site from boilerplate sections of pages, Google may view that as an indication of low quality for the sites being linked to. "

" Diversity filtering "

" If your site provides a resource that links to a specific site, and does so on a number of pages, Google may only count one of those links, and discard the rest of them "
Bill Slawski: A Google patent discusses how a site might be labeled a low quality site by Google based upon the links from other pages pointed to the site, and how this can potentially reduce rankings for a page.