How to get rid from unwanted backlinks
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Hello,
Before joining seomoz I was desperate to hire seo expert for my website and each posts on my website. I did some research and found some cheap services on fiverr.com as I didn't had huge marketing budget and I purchased some services (gig) on fiverr.com to add many backlinks to my latest post.
Now before ordering this services I was on 3rd page of Google for my relevant keywords but after adding backlinks I am not on first 50 pages for my specific keywords. I admit that when I was on 3rd page the competition for my keywords was about 50,000 (with comma ofcourse) and now it is 186,000 so I do believe that competition is increased but I didn't expect such a drop in rankings.
I suspect that may be Google put my site far behind because of so much backlinks and that too generated within one week. I didn't know that it will cause such a drop in rankings. I even suspect that may be there were spam backlinkgs or linkings which google doesn't like.
So my question is first of all how do I know that is there any backlinks on my website or posts which can harm my rankings and if yes how do I get rid of them.
Please guide me as I want to do proper and genuine seo which google likes and finally my rankings get better.
Thanks
Bhadresh
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Are you using Google Webmaster Tools? You will generally receive a warning if you are being penalized for unnatural linking:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/
Google Webmaster Tools also has a "disavow link" tool, which allows you to tell Google which of your links are poor quality links you don't want counted against you. You can also try reaching out to the sites that you received the low quality links from, or contact the people who provided you with the fiverr gigs to see if they can remove the links.
If you didn't have much of a backlink profile to begin with, it may be easier to just start with a clean slate and start a brand new site that doesn't have all those spammy links.
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