Finding and removing "Bad" Back Links
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In the process of trying to figure out where all of the “Bad” backlinks are coming from I used the SEOmoz Site Explorer. I can see the links that may be questionable but am not sure how to determine if these are the issue causing the loss of rank or could it be something else. On Google webmasters they list Siteloki.com as the one with the most links. The count is now at 13,005. (see attached WMT report)
I first noticed this a month ago, 6,742 links and have tried contacting them with no reply, no results, I have even posted on the site asking to be removed from their listing and not response.Website: www.getyourphotosoncanvas.com
I do not understand why this site is not showing up in the Site Explorer link analysis report (See attached)?
Could this be some sort of hack or hidden links that Site Explorer does not see?
How do I determine if this is real or not, if it is the reason that Google is demoting us? Google says that we are not being manually penalized?
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I have to say it does not matter. Why not spend time getting good links and focusing on content that brings links. I once owned a popular forum and it attracted a lot of spam profiles all of which linked to Russian porn sites. I didnt notice and had thousands of these profiles all linking to different porn sites. It didnt hurt or help the site. I still have access to the stats and that site has it made it just fine through all the updates. Yeah we deleted most of the links as we didnt want to irk our users but I am sure some remain. If it was that easy to bring a site down I would just pay some people on fiver to start knocking off competitors with cheap link blasts. Now if your site does not have any links and all that links to it is trash its another story. Build out your link profile and this stuff wont damage you.
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