SPAMMY links to my search results page
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Hi,
I have a big problem, somehow someone has built THOUSANDS of SPAMMY links to my site's search result pages with keywords that does not even make sense or inline with the site.
Links are dofollow and goes to /?s=TERM see the for yourself https://analytics.moz.com/pro/link-explorer/inbound-links?site=https%3A%2F%2Fhealthtian.com
See image https://imgur.com/a/fahetyZ
Please is there a way to BLOCK all at once? i feel these links are impacting on my site.
Thanks
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yes i know, during the compilation of the list i used GSC, SEMRUSH, AHREF,etc...
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Don't rely on search console link data. Google don't show you all of the links they see pointing to your site, only a very small sample which is usually also a bad sample. By all means integrate search console links into your wider project, but don't treat them as 'the best data' because they absolutely are not
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Then I guess just use the disavow tool where you're not limited to what Search Console will let you input? It's a free-form text file, you choose for yourself which domains you want to disavow. You don't have to select them from URLs that 'show up' in search console
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i do the management myself.
the URLS showing on moz/semrush and other similar tools are different from what is showing on search console
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Hi,
have you used the new google console lately? i mean added new domains? because they don't show up in the disavow tool.
I added my domain in the new console and it has changed from previous method
Thanks
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The disavow tool is here:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main
(in Search Console)
5th tip is for a senior developer to look at not an SEO person / marketer. I also don't recommend it
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So you have spammy links for 7K unique URLs? Ask whoever manages your GSC account to grant you higher access as this shouldn't be an issue.
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Hi,
I have a list of domains and URLs about 7K but i can't disavow them because the new google console does not give option for that.
My search results are no-index and i have used **Disallow: /?s= **in my robots.txt file. so how do i do the 5th tip?
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Isolate the domains which the links are coming from
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Disavow all of the domains
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Meta no-index your search results URLs as Google doesn't like to index search results anyway
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Robots.txt block all your search results URLs
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If you are feeling hardcore, when someone visits the search result URLs specifically from the offending domain(s) serve them 410s (but this is a bit thermonuclear)
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