Google is somehow linking my two sites that aren't linked! HELP
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Good Morning...
In my Google webmaster account it is showing an increase of backlinks between one site i own to the other.... This should not happen, as there are no links from one site to the other.
I have thoroughly checked many pages on the new site to see if i can find a backlink, but i can't.
Does anyone know why this is showing like this (google now shows 50,000 links from one site to the other).. Can someone please take a look and see if you can find any link from one to the other...
original site : http://goo.gl/JgK1e
new site : http://goo.gl/Jb4ng
Please let me know why you guys think this is happening or if you were actually able to find a link on the new site pointing back to the old site...
thanks a lot
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I looked at your site and was not able to see any links from the plasticstorage.com site to the simplastics.co.uk site. I used a couple backlink tools and was not able to see any links there either.
I did notice a huge drop in backlinks recently. Once tool showed you had 30k+ links in March on the plasticstorage.com site but have dropped over 10k links. Is it possible the links you are seeing in Google were present and have just recently been removed? If so, expect it to take Google 30 days to crawl all of your site and recognize the changes.
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screenshot not working too well, does this work:
| http://simplastics.co.uk/30234-4945Via this intermediate link:http://simplastics.co.uk/wr54-1236c-3387 |
| http://simplastics.co.uk/30260-4983Via this intermediate link:http://simplastics.co.uk/wr54-1236c-3387 |
| http://simplastics.co.uk/30287-5271Via this intermediate link:http://simplastics.co.uk/wr54-1236c-3387 |
| http://simplastics.co.uk/30288-5274Via this intermediate link:http://simplastics.co.uk/wr54-1236c-3387 |
| http://simplastics.co.uk/30290-5279Via this intermediate link:http://simplastics.co.uk/wr54-1236c-3387 |
| http://simplastics.co.uk/305a4-5087Via this intermediate link:http://simplastics.co.uk/wr54-1236c-3387 |
| http://simplastics.co.uk/31162-5228Via this intermediate link:http://simplastics.co.uk/wr54-1236c-3387 |
| http://simplastics.co.uk/33023Via this intermediate link:http://simplastics.co.uk/wr54-1236c-3387 |
| http://simplastics.co.uk/33061Via this intermediate link:http://simplastics.co.uk/wr54-1236c-3387 |
| http://simplastics.co.uk/33105-5369Via this intermediate link:http://simplastics.co.uk/wr54-1236c-3387 | -
Can you share a screenshot of your Google WMT screen where it shows links between the sites? The image may help us better understand the root issue.
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