Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.
Dana Gessert: Yes especially if you are paying for it. The links on those sites get devalued quicker than any other sites.
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Sadat Rayid Odowa: Dana Gessert I love the phrase "devalued". Do you also believe that there is no good algorithm penalty for bad links but rather google just devalues the links?
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Dana Gessert: Sadat Rayid Odowa That`s exactly my believe
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Sadat Rayid Odowa: Dana Gessert there`s alot of misleading information in the seo community about this, Do you also believe that a website can rank without backlinks?
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Umair Hameed: yes and any google update can hit your site. while creating backlinks only focus on quality not on quantity
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Buth Main: No one knows how risky it is. For example, it can be an interesting blog about casinos, games, etc. In this case, these links will generate valuable traffic and pass a value to your site. But Google also can ignore these links.
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Abhijith VM: Buth Main I am referring to tech blogs that have a category called `gaming` to link to casino sites, most probably paid link placement.
Buth Main: If you didn`t pay for links, there is no problem. Many SEOs don`t recommend using blogspot.com because "spammers use that". It is a myth.
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Jim Munro: If you mean risky as in crickets-chirping suddent death overnight at light speed, then yes, gambling is risky, both for linking either in or out. Same for pills, porn plus btc or anything YMYL too.
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Sheikh Shadi Shuvo: ofcourse no, If you check world best newspaper, magazine promoted gambling and you have no problem with that but you have problem with new or mid level sites?
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Zachary Toto: If you have to ask, it probably is, but more importantly is how valuable that casino link would be to your users.
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Tricia Barnes: It depends on the site. If the links on the site are predominately spammy, but you didn`t seek out the link, then it won`t do you any good but it won`t do any harm either. If you paid for the link or wrote a guest post purely for a link, then there`s a possible risk that Google will flag you as participating in link schemes. On the other hand, if it`s a legitimate gambling site, with quality content and the link to your site is valuable to their readers, then there`s no problem.
Is it risky to get a backlink from sites that are linking to casino/gambling sites?
