What is Bad Neighborhoods
 

Hi mats,
�Bad Neighborhoods� is how Google refers to questionable sites that constantly link to other harmful sites. While normally link exchanges are good idea, constantly linking to sites, no matter what their reputation, in order to boost traffic will quickly get a site in trouble.

Bad neighborhoods is a site that your website link to.It has a bad reputation in Google's eyes because they try to boost their ranking by using illegal techniques such as keyword stuffing, duplicate content (or lack of any original content), hidden text and links, doorway pages, deceptive titles, machine-generated pages, copyright violators and the likes.