In the constantly shifting landscape of SEO, few strategies have clung to life as stubbornly as blog commenting. Despite years of warnings, many SEOs still believe these links hold authority, while website owners frequently panic that spammy comment links are actively destroying their rankings.<\/p>\n
A recent exchange on Bluesky between a concerned website owner and Google Search Advocate John Mueller has once again set the record straight: Google neither values these links nor penalizes sites that receive them involuntarily.<\/p>\n
The conversation began when a frantic site owner, operating under the handle Crysta IVF<\/i>, reached out to Mueller regarding a wave of spam comments pointing to their domain. The owner had discovered links with irrelevant and potentially harmful anchor text (referencing adult content) on a creative agency\u2019s blog dating back to 2013.<\/p>\n
Despite contacting the blog owner and disavowing the links in Google Search Console (GSC), the user noted their traffic was dropping and feared a “Negative SEO<\/a>” attack.<\/p>\n “I would like to bring an issue to your attention,” the user wrote to Mueller. “I have emailed the owner also but no response yet! What I must do now? I have already disavowed in GSC too.”<\/p>\n https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/crystaivf.bsky.social\/post\/3mcmfapspvk2s<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/span><\/div>\n