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  • HuptechWebseo
    HuptechWebseo Banned last edited by Apr 21, 2018, 5:27 AM

    Hi Everyone,

    Someone has generated more than 22k spam backlinks (on bad keywords) for my domain.Will it hurt on my website (SEO Ranking)? Because it is already in the top ranking.

    How could I remove all the spammy backlinks?

    How could I know particular competitior who have done this?

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    • Smileworks_Liverpool
      Smileworks_Liverpool Subscriber last edited by Apr 24, 2018, 5:10 AM Apr 24, 2018, 5:10 AM

      You're forcing your competitor to make some really bad strategic decisions.  Use this - if you know or suspect who it might be - to inform your competitive strategy.

      Keep disavowing the inks and they will get bored and give up because it's costing them time and resources to build them. It's like tennis.  You need to 'force errors' in your competition rathe than going toe-to-toe with them.

      Have they recently started advertising for the categories where you are hurting them?  If so you can look at the ads and find out their value proposition and most profitable categories and erode their market share by being better than they are and draining their resources.

      I don't know if there's any negative SEO police.  I'm not sure you'll get very far with that although you could hire a forensic white-hat-hacker to try to reveal their identity.  But I don't see how that will help.  And I don't like bringing even ex-hackers anywhere near my business for obvious reasons.

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      • HuptechWebseo
        HuptechWebseo Banned @Smileworks_Liverpool last edited by Apr 24, 2018, 2:13 AM Apr 24, 2018, 2:13 AM

        Yes,  I did

        But still spam backlink increase daily more than 8K, any other solution to stop this activities?

        Thank you

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        • Smileworks_Liverpool
          Smileworks_Liverpool Subscriber last edited by Apr 23, 2018, 5:10 PM Apr 23, 2018, 5:10 PM

          Did you manage ok with the 'disavow tool'?

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          • Smileworks_Liverpool
            Smileworks_Liverpool Subscriber last edited by Apr 21, 2018, 1:03 PM Apr 21, 2018, 1:03 PM

            You need to use the disavow tool in google search console.  I keep trying to attach a link but it's not letting me today for some reason.  Just google disavow links and read how to do it from the google webmaster forum and google manual and then go into search console, upload your file of bad / spammy links and submit.

            Piece of cake. Don't panic though.  Make sure you use the tool carefully and come back if you get stuck with anything.  How do you know it's a competitor?  Have the links appeared overnight? you can't find out who's doing it usually (without a lot of wasting of resources) but google will keep the data for the future and sometimes bad links won't cause you any harm at all.

            But other times they'll get you a penalty so get the disavow file in as soon as you can. 🙂

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