Lost Search Ranking - how to fix spammy backlinks
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I have a health niche website ( grocare.com )
Recently I subscribed to ahrefs and moz and found out so many spammy backlinks to my site (which i didn't create). Someone told me this is a common competitor tactic. To create bad links for your website to drank it.
My question is - in ahrefs now, there are a LOT of spammy anchors and it seems more backlinks are being created by spammy websites automatically. I have lost many rankings because of this. I tried diluting by creating more normal anchors but it doesnt seem to be working.
How do I fix this ? Any help is apprecciated
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The best method would be to submit a disavow file to Google through Google Search Console. Here is a guide on how to do it- https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-disavow-links/. My understanding is nowadays Google mostly ignores spammy or bad backlinks pointing to your website, however, if you are feeling a rankings decrease and believe these new links may be a cause of it, it can be beneficial to submit a disavow file with the spammy links.
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