33k links from Yahoo?
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Google WMT says I have over 33,000 backlinks from Yahoo.net, linking to 4 different pages on my site. I am not sure if these are nofollow or not, but I would assume they are. It also says I have almost 4,000 links from feedblitz. Should I be concerned or do something about either of these two things? I am pretty unfamiliar with RSS feeds.
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Hi there,
It is hard to tell without more information about the links themselves, but I'd suggest that you try to track these links down and work out whether they seem good quality or not. To be honest, it doesn't sound like they are because there are so many only going to a few pages! If they are nofollowed, then they shouldn't really be hurting you, if they are followed, then you may need to decide if you want to try and get them removed - if you feel they are hurting your rankings and have caused the traffic drop you mention.
If they are the cause of a traffic drop, chances are that you'll have received a link warning on Google Webmaster Tools or have a manual action which you can see.
Here are a couple of other articles on link analysis and finding / identifying low quality links which may help you:
http://www.stateofsearch.com/step-by-step-guide-finding-low-quality-links/
http://moz.com/blog/how-to-check-which-links-can-harm-your-sites-rankings
I hope that helps!
Paddy
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Our rankings have dropped considerably since the 5/22 Penguin update.
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How is your site performing. Has the organic traffic/rankings dropped or do you think you have suffered from any updates. If not , i would not worry too much about it.
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In the latest links CSV dating back to 2008, only about 20 links from Yahoo are displayed. Some are from dir.yahoo, and some are from marketplace.news. A search for inurl:yahoo.net websitename shows almost 3,000 results.
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hmmm not sure what's going on, so would help to get more granular details.
I would suggest downloading the latest links from GWT, and actually looking at the urls that is linking to you.
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