Is healthygallbladder.com a spammy site?
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Hello Moz Community!
We're getting many back links with random anchor text (completely irrelevant) from a website called healthygallbladder.com and various subdomains under that domain. Has anyone else come across this website?
I can't seem to load the pages at all. It always comes up with a bandwidth exceeded message.
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Good move! This recently happened to my site as well; someone created an account and then sent thousands of sites from over 100 domains to that page. Best to disavow.
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I would say our DA is moderate at best. Turns out I'm finding a ton of these gallbladder sites that you can't access that are linking to us. I ended up disavowing.
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Weird! Quick question: does your site have a decent DA? I wonder if this site is selling links to weak sites, and they're trying to mask that by also linking to high quality sites, like yours.
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I was finally able to get a look at the site by looking at what Bing actually cached:
Interesting enough, the part where they seem to link to random sites and have a poor choice of words, irrelevant text, and poor grammar is the part where they list out "more resources..." about said topic.
Here are a few examples:
- Download your report for 50% off today! Now the doctor has convinced you and you should drink the juice of fresh fruits and juices.http://www.liverspot.net/index.html - This is your bedside manner person.
Sounds completely spammy.
Anyone have any thoughts on this? None of the ones listed are my website but you get the idea.
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This is probably referral spam. Take a look at this article: https://www.distilled.net/resources/quick-fix-for-referral-spam-in-google-analytics/
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Thanks for your response.
It just seems a bit fishy that I can't find much information about this site. They have 34K backlinks yet their site isn't indexed and doesn't render. Their domain is sending my site the 2nd highest amount of backlinks to our site.
We sell braces and supports. Here's an example of one of their links from this page on their site that doesn't work: http://healing.healthygallbladder.com/406067/liver-function-test-out-of-range/
This is the text - "A where is the liver located in the body doctor - Mark Kirk, the idea of her jumping up on you should know that"
The underlined is the anchor text which links to a page on our site about shoulder braces....it is completely irrelevant in so many ways. The information on the page as you can see doesn't make sense.
I just want to make sure we don't get hit with anything so I'm curious about how proactive I need to be because if it does come down to having to ask them to remove links...it'll be difficult as you can imagine.
Thanks!
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It doesn't look like that site is even indexed by Google. Even if it were, disavowing an entire site is pretty easy so a one domain spam attack wouldn't be very effective.
I wouldn't worry about it unless you experience a massive rankings drop.
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