Thanks!

Hi Tom -

Thanks so much for your insight - and the tools you've recommended. I also experienced a hacked site in the past where new URLs were created on the client site for nike shoes and what not.

I will disavow for now, but agree - I need to add a crawl with the intention of uncovering those spam URLs in my technical audit process moving forward.

I detected the "attack" simply by monitoring backlinks via Ahrefs. I will disavow using same tool.

Again - your insight is appreciated!

Hi Joe -

Thanks for the insight. I agree that disavow is the best course forward, even if Google is devaluing them. A manual penalty is what I'm worried about. How do you directly let the Web Spam team know? I can monitor and continue to disavow, but this could continue to go on indefinitely.

I'm pretty sure one of my client's sites has been targeted by malicious black hat link building tactics employed by a competitor site. Over the last few weeks we've gotten 100s of super low quality spammy backlinks. No one has been doing link building, so the only thing I can think of is that competitor entered our URL into some spammy backlink building sites.

Has anyone else experienced this?

It's the real estate industry, so I wouldn't be surprised considering how competitive it is, but I'd love to hear your experiences.