Today it was announced that the BBC Food recipe website is to close, or at least mothballed in some way. It contains more than 11,000 recipes, many taken from the BBC’s food programming over the years and written by Rick Stein, Nigella Lawson and among others.
Google did end commenting on why the BBC received an unnatural link notification despite offering us a “no comment” on our story this past Friday. Was the BBC penalized for unnatural links?
Google has sent the world’s largest broadcast news organization, BBC News, an unnatural link notification last Saturday. The Search Engine Roundtable reports Nick, a BBC News representative, posted in the Google Help Forums about the notification. Nick was seeking advice from Google or SEOs…