Linkbuilding spreadsheets hosted on Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive safe?

Ashk881 said:

Well if you don't leave them public, I don't see how it would be an issue.

I usually prefer storing all my documents on my self-hosted nextcloud drive. Tho I also have a encrypted backup of files on google drive too.

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bmwplace338 said:

From employees who work there. One time, two of my main sites got de-indexed from Bing. The only thing I can think of is someone on the team on Microsoft forwarded the spreadsheet of my link swaps to the Bing team. Because both of those sites are legitimate authority sites. No reason for it to be de-indexed from Bing. I've gotten them back up after sending a request, but I've been weary ever since.

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Ashk881 said:

Lmao no. They don't have employees snooping through your files on their cloud storage offerings just to find your blackhat link schemes and deindex them lol.

They deindexed your site probably because they found out your link swaps and found it in violation of their terms, or you broke some other rule. Whatever it be, be rest assured that it wasn't some Microsoft employee going through your excel spreadsheet where you document all your link swaps

All files that you store on public cloud offerings like OneDrive and GDrive are encrypted by default. Both while they are being stored on their servers and while they are being transferred back to you.

That means no one, not even their employees or their algorithms have access to this data.

Also, you are underestimating the scale these things work in. OneNote and GDrive store petabytes of user data. Finding your spreadsheet in that would be like searching for a micrometer long needle in 20 football fields sized haystacks.

And their search engines got millions of site in their index. Do you think they will use their employee time to find blackhat link schemes of random sites?

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