Spam links on my Backlink Profile
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Recently after checking my backlink profile, my site has attracted quite a few spam backlinks with the anchor text written in Asian characters. We don't do any black-hat tactics and have remained clean in our process, as well as not submitted our site to any spam directories, yet we still have these foreign links. Any thoughts on how to get rid of these or stop these from occurring?
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Thanks for the comment Brendan.
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Thanks for the info. This is for the VA site.
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The only thing I would double check is to make sure that there is nothing being parasitically hosted on your site that those links are trying to promote (ie: hacked wordpress and those links are promoting pharma pages injected into your site). More likely than not, it is nothing to worry about - maybe a scraper translation link.
BTW, which site is this for? your personal site or the VA site?
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Rob is spot on.
We all have some junk links, who knows they may even help.
You would have to have a hell of a lot of junk links to raise eyebrows as well as some other evidence of wrong doing before you would get flagged.
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If you are using Wordpress and they are showing up as trackbacks, make sure you delete them, or disable trackbacks and pingbacks.
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Agreed. Spend your time creating high quality links, not worrying about what low quality sites link to you for unknown reasons.
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Hi Rob,
I wouldn't waste your time trying to clean up your backlink profile. It's more than likely that Google will simply ignore these links anyway. You're much better spending time creating some great content that will help to make the web a better place and attract good, natural links which Google will count.
Hope that helps,
Brendan.
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