Does Google Take Into Account The Platforms Your Links Come From?
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Ejrussell,
If you mean will a site get penalized if all backlinks are coming from Wordpress sites or Joomla sites or whatever, I would venture a guess that search engines don't care.
Here are some tips on backlinks to avoid and ones that are good,
http://mymediamagnet.com/bad-links-vs-good-seo-backlinks-in-the-google-penguin-era/
Hope that helps,
Shawn
If you mean will a site get penalized if all backlinks are coming from Wordpress sites or Joomla sites or whatever, I would venture a guess that search engines don't care.
Here are some tips on backlinks to avoid and ones that are good,
http://mymediamagnet.com/bad-links-vs-good-seo-backlinks-in-the-google-penguin-era/
Hope that helps,
Shawn
I don't think there is a definitive answer to this question.
However, we do know this:
1) Gbot downloads your website's code and analyzes it
2) Platforms like WordPress, Joomla, etc., and their themes/plugins, all leave footprints in your code. So it's easy for someone to match those up.
3) However, at the same time, millions of people use the same platform and plugins, so it's really difficult and unfair for G to single out any such one
In the end, I think they could easily analyze and obtain this information but there's just not a practical or fair way for them to utilize it in ranking factors.
However, we do know this:
1) Gbot downloads your website's code and analyzes it
2) Platforms like WordPress, Joomla, etc., and their themes/plugins, all leave footprints in your code. So it's easy for someone to match those up.
3) However, at the same time, millions of people use the same platform and plugins, so it's really difficult and unfair for G to single out any such one
In the end, I think they could easily analyze and obtain this information but there's just not a practical or fair way for them to utilize it in ranking factors.