Site scraped/Backlink problem?
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Hi - I was looking in my Google webmaster tools because we saw a huge jump in backlinks last week. We found this one article with 84,475 total links, which obviously stands out as spam. All the links are from 1 page and 1 domain (financeai.com).
This is the article on our website - http://loyalty360.org/resources/article/engaging-customer-atmosphere-at-pizza-patron and webmaster tools says all the links back to it come from this page http://financeai.com/forex/mxn/pkr/q/39665
My question is - should we/what can we do to clean this up? How does this impact our search ranking?
We have had some issues with our website getting extremely slow overnight, and we believe the site scraping is really slowing down the site at points.
Thanks.
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It seems to usually take 2 weeks at most.
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Got it - I guess we will just have to keep an eye out. Thank you!
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Can take a week a month... nobody knows...Depends on Google
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Thanks! Once you upload the file, how long does it usually take to make sure the links were removed?
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Hi Carly
Yeah disavowing a link is standard practice these days if you dont want Google to take it into consideration, I would definitely be disavowing the links which you have mentioned if you cannot get them removed
Regards
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Thanks! The website seems to be pretty sketchy so I am not sure what the chances of them actually removing the links are. Is disavowing usually a typical practice? Just wondering since google says "In most cases, Google can assess which links to trust without additional guidance, so most normal or typical sites will not need to use this tool."
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I will partially agree with essential-pest!
If I would be at your place, I would have contacted the site owner first and requested him to remove the link and incase or a positive reply bingo, but in-case of no or negative reply you will only left with one choice and that is to inform Google about your problem and you can do this via using disavow tool.
Hope this helps!
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Hi there,
The best practice that google recommend first is to email the webmaster of that page to take out the link, then if he do not reply you can use the tool disavow. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2648487?hl=en
Good luck
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If you found the link from that domain that is causing the problem, I would suggest disavowing the exact link using Google Webmaster tools.
Spam links are considered toxic links to your website and can definitely impact your ranking.
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