Google's John Mueller was asked if Google would penalize a tract for aged outbound links to a tract that erstwhile hosted value contented and now changed ownership and hosts shady content. John said Google won't penalize specified links; he said "no" and added, "the web is afloat of turmoil."
This was from a thread connected Reddit that asked:
So the mobility is: really does Google dainty OLD backlinks to a REAL business that unluckily mislaid their domain? Does Google penalize my lodging website for linking to a domain that precocious started serving shady content?John Mueller replied:
No. It's bully to support things caller overall, but the web is afloat of turmoil. That said & hopefully obviously, if your full site's worth has go obsolete, that's a different benignant of problem than a fistful of surgery links.Google benignant of said this galore times before, that Google is bully astatine ignoring nexus cruft. Link cruft are old, spammy and irrelevant links accrued by the tract complete the years.
Google's stance connected links, if you hunt this site, has been that it ignores links alternatively past demotes them, which has been its stance since 2016.
Here is simply a screenshot of this (I cropped it to conscionable see the mobility and John's response):
Forum chat astatine Reddit.
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