Are This Site's Backlinks Hurting Us?
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Google WMT reports more than 198,000 backlinks to our site (www.audiobooksonline.com) from http://dilandau.eu/?
We have never been notified by Google of any penalty, malware notification... but continue to struggle to get our page 1 Google ranking back since Panda.
Could these backlinks be hurting our Google ranking?
Should I implement a disavow rule for http://dilandau.eu/?
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As Oleg says, Panda is a content update, the situation you are describing with all those links (which I definitely think could be a problem) is a Penguin issue -- i constantly confuse the two, perhaps you did too? Do you still have the notifications you got from WWT?
If this ends up needing some hot, disavow tool action this recent comment from Mr. Cutts might save you a ton of time.
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/what-to-expect-in-seo-in-the-coming-months/#comment-4405076
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Panda = on page content.
They problem lies with your pages' content. Take for example - http://www.audiobooksonline.com/Lucas-Davenport-Silken-Prey-John-Sandford.html - the synopsis/description is copy/pasted and appears on many other sites. G see's this and devalues your website.
The other site may be hurting your rankings but I wouldn't disavow it if you first saw your traffic drop after panda. Fix the on page content first.
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hi Larry,
That does seem like an extortionate amount of links from ONE website. I had a quick look because I thought it may have been a footer link across all the pages but it wasn't. I did a search http://en.dilandau.eu/download-songs-mp3/audio%20books/3.html and saw all the links.
I don't think it will have harmed the website that much. They all seem like legitimate links to me, audio book links on a music website may be a grey area but I don't think Google will see it as spamming.
What kind of link building are you doing?
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