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    • Safnah.com
      Safnah IT Services last edited by

      Hi Moz Community and SEO experts

      I had toxic backlinks attacks from some rivals that increased my spam score to 33% how to reduce and fix it ?

      my domain is https://www.safnah.com

      I disavowed around 300 toxic urls but nothing happened

      looking forward for your solutions

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      • NURSFPX
        NURSFPX last edited by

        Hey, One of my competitors is dropping Fake Backlinks on my website NURSFPX.com. I have disavowed some of it, but there are so many on the internet. Can someone help how to handle this

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        • gearox
          gearox Subscriber last edited by

          My website was maliciously spammed by opponents, and the spam mailbox has reached 39%. How did you solve this problem?Bus GPS Tracking System

          <a href="http://www.yuweitek.com/" target="_blank">有为</a>
          
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          • Safnah.com
            Safnah IT Services @askusedu last edited by

            @askusedu so far it was updated but I just forgotten about it , but it seems many competitors and spa-mers increaser are taking it as job to make backlinks so you need at least monthly check up and disavow list of them otherwise if you are SS are more than 50 % then you may end up from google permanently

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            • askusedu
              askusedu @Safnah.com last edited by

              @Safnah-com were you able to get any solution to this?
              I have a similar attack on my website. My website https://askusedu.com/ is just a few months old, and it seems some competitors have create a lot of spam backlinks and increased my spam score to 28%.
              After checking MOZ's articles, I can assure that i have all the necessary information on my website like genuine contact details, email, phone number, google tracking codes, and I'm not performing any spammy or shady activities.

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