Re: Google removes credit for reciprocal link accumulation on real estate websites
This is not simply an algorithm to devalue recips (Although I am starting to suspect there is one involved coming in behind a manual intervention)
The reason I believe this that websites effected now cannot only not rank for their previously highly competitive phrases, they also cannot rank for obscure and non competitive terms such as their own names in quotation marks - these rankings (Obscure phrases) are pushed down to near identical levels of where the major terms dropped to.
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