Confirming unnatural link removed
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My SEO firm confirmed on 4/5 that they've removed links from a site www.fantake.com. However, as of today, it still shows on GWM there are 1100 links coming from that site.
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where can I find out bad links from root domain listed on GWM? There are some domains showing they have hundreds of links to our site.
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Between the lag time of GWM crawling, is there a tool that I can use and verify if a link is indded removed?
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If you have a list of the linking pages from which your SEO firm requested removal (and you should) you can use ScreamingFrog to crawl that list, with a custom filter set to look for your URL. It'll spit back a list of pages that still have your links on them.
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