Are all comments with links spam?

Google Search Central · 41K views · 2013 · 1:58

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Explains whether comment links violate Google's guidelines and when they might be acceptable.

Linked by 22 independent sites, 3 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including searchenginejournal.com, problogger.com, seobook.com, abondance.com, oncrawl.com.