Fwd: Unnatural outbound links from http://sourceware.org/ violate Google Webmaster Guidelines

Fwd: Unnatural outbound links from http://sourceware.org/ violate Google Webmaster Guidelines

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Apparently we have spam links coming out of
sourceware.org/cygwinports.  Anybody want to look into this?

Ian


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Date: Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 12:42 AM
Subject: Unnatural outbound links from http://sourceware.org/ violate
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Unnatural outbound links from http://sourceware.org/ violate Google
Webmaster Guidelines

To: Webmaster of http://sourceware.org/,

Google has detected a pattern of links from your site to other sites
that is either unnatural or irrelevant. This pattern attempts to
artificially boost other sites' ranking in Google Search results. Such
unnatural ranking would cause search results to show preference for
results not relevant to the user's actual query. It also violates
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Re: Fwd: Unnatural outbound links from http://sourceware.org/ violate Google Webmaster Guidelines

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Hi -

> Apparently we have spam links coming out of
> http://sourceware.org/cygwinports.  Anybody want to look into this?

Yeah, I got a copy of that report too.  cvs logs indicate
yselkowitz added some odd/broken Sponsors links to

  /sourceware1/www/sourceware/htdocs/cygwinports/index.html

a year ago.  Maybe that's what google is complaining about.
IMHO they are suspicious and should be removed.  Yaakov?
BTW, to whom do those paypal donations go?

- FChE

Re: Fwd: Unnatural outbound links from http://sourceware.org/ violate Google Webmaster Guidelines

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On 2016-11-12 17:49, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
>> Apparently we have spam links coming out of
>> http://sourceware.org/cygwinports.  Anybody want to look into this?
>
> Yeah, I got a copy of that report too.  cvs logs indicate
> yselkowitz added some odd/broken Sponsors links to
>
>   /sourceware1/www/sourceware/htdocs/cygwinports/index.html
>
> a year ago.  Maybe that's what google is complaining about.
> IMHO they are suspicious and should be removed.  Yaakov?

Following the lead of the main Cygwin site, I marked these nofollow.

-- 
Yaakov Selkowitz
Software Engineer - Platform Enablement Group
Red Hat, Inc.