Direct Domain Name Anchor Text Spammy Links
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Hello! I have a website that has been hit with around 120-150 spammy bookmarking sites which I believe are just scraping content from one another or were added by someone that was hired earlier or maybe some other action, but that really doesn't matter. My question is whether I should be worried about that many domains linking to the site in question with anchor text that is "www.domainname.com" and linking to the domain itself?
I have done quite a few researches on this issue and the general conclusion is these don't help, but they don't hurt your rankings either. I wanted to hear from the SEOMoz community about it though.
My opinion is Google doesn't take them seriously and we shouldn't worry about them, try to take them off and we should simply work on our content, guest posts, produce our generally great deals on our services and move on. Thanks!
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Thank you for your reply! Just as I imagined, they don't pose any real issue since the healthy links will outweigh them in importance. I will inform the site owner that we should keep doing the marketing and promotional work as done so far, as Penguin did hit and rankings are almost all the same now. Thanks!
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As long as you outweigh them with great natural links then you will be fine. These spammy links are part and parcel of building great sites. It is when they are viewed in isolation or as a large proportion of a site's backlink profile that it is clear they were built for the purpose of ranking.
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