What is Link Pruning?
Something About Link Pruning “Link Pruning” refers to the process of analyzing a website’s back link profile and determining which links are low quality / harmful and need removing. If you think of your site’s back link profile like an ornamental tree, link pruning is just like pruning the tree; in order to shape it and let it grow all of the ways you desire (and none of the ones you do not) you need to take a pair of pruning shears to it every so often. Seems simple enough right? Unfortunately, link pruning is not as easy as running a few analysis programs and then firing off a few emails to webmasters who have your links on their website(s). Before you start going crazy cutting out links right and left, make sure links are even what you need to be focusing on; was your website hit by Panda or Penguin, or both? Believe it or not your answer can make a huge difference in how you go on from here so take some time and think about exactly when and how you first experienced any tra...