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We have a client www.atvandtrailersales.com who recently (March) fell out of the rankings. We checked their backlink file and found over 100 spam links pointing at their website with terms like "uggboots" and "headwear" etc. etc.
I submitted a disavow link file, as this was obviously an attack on the website.
Since the recent Panda update, the client is back out of the rankings for a majority of keyword phrases. The disavow link file that was submitted back in march has 90% of the same links that are still spamming the website now.
I've sent a spam report to Google and nothing has happened. I could submit a new disavow link file, but I'm not sure if this is worth the time.
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Thank you for that, i will have a look now. I know when we have looked at our links we have found a lot of people link to our site, but trying to decide if these are good links or bad links has been hard for us.
We did find a lot of directory sites and also game sites that were linking to us and we could not understand why they were doing this.
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Zack,
They're actually linking to a dynamic inventory page which is updated daily with new products. Sometimes they link to a specific piece of inventory which is ultimately 404'd when the product is sold and link doesn't exist anymore.
Wish it was that easy, but the links keep coming
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Hi Tim,
If you log into webmaster tools and look at Traffic > Links to your site you can see who's linking. Make sure you click on "More>>". Alternatively you can use Moz's OSE and run a backlink report on your site.
It was immediately clear that this was happening again as we had 26 links from videogamersoasis.com for a power sports website...
To submit a file:
Webmaster Tools > Traffic > Links to your site, click on "Download latest links" and then filter out any links you actually put there. Go to https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main?pli=1 and submit the file.
Only do this is you KNOW you've been attacked and you can't contact the website owners to take the links down.
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i think the same is happening to our site, can you let me know how you find the spamy link and how to submit the file. also have you tried filling in the contact form for google, i know they are not great at communicating but maybe worth a shot
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That sucks. If I were you I would probably would not submit a new disavow link file, because the first one is probably still in their queue.
How many different URLs were the spammy links pointing to ? If it's just a few, could you just no-index the tainted goods and create new URLs ?
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