Somone is creating a ton of links to my site!!!
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Today I looked at site explorer and found over 1100 linking root domains and over 750 linking c-blocks. My site was hovering around 200 linking root domains and 150 linking c-blocks. I have not paid anyone to link to my site... Is this one of my competitors trying to create negative seo for a specific key word?
I've worked very hard to never try to build links and only get links naturally by providing good content that people would want to link to. Can all hundreds of new links hurt me? What can I do?
my site is www.yakangler.com
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I just found another 1100 links from 800+ domains! This is getting ridiculous!
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It should help that as soon as I discovered the links I submitted all the domains to be devalued through webmaster tools. But the risk with Google is they are so big most of the time they just don't give a crap.
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Definitely watch your GWT for any unnatural link penalties incoming and track all of these links as their built in a spreadsheet. If you get a manual penalty notice you are going to need to explain your case to Google in an easy-to-understand and believable fashion. The more proof you can compile the better because I have a feeling they might not believe you that you were not the one creating these links. My guess is people probably use this excuse with them often. (Not that I'm suggesting you are doing this, just saying be careful.)
Keep us posted I'm curious.
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There are always enemies... Just not sure who...
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How could you possibly have built enemies in the kayak fishing community?! This is bizarre to me but I agree with your assessment.. Any ideas who could be responsible? Nobody else in the organization thinking they're helping by purchasing link packages for cheap? Former members mad? Some bitter competitor (is there such a thing for you guys?!)
This is crazy to me!
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Thanks, I think it's pretty BS that crap like this can affect your rankings. All this does is make people do it more if it can cause a drop in rankings!
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Then you sir have a problem on your hands.
I suppose you could use Google's disavow links tool. Be careful with it but I'm not sure what else you can do in this situation.
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I just don't understand how all these links could be created in a few days "naturally" when the links to my site before this have always grown slowly.
All the links have the same key word and link to sites like
domain:le-saint-coran.com
domain:blogs.estadao.com.br
domain:blog.teenlife.com
domain:digimills.com
domain:marisolynorsecasanengijon.com
domain:blogs.estadao.com.br
domain:blog.fullscreen.net
domain:blog.teenlife.com
domain:blogs.estadao.com.br
domain:nosoloconsolas.com
domain:platformed.info
domain:littlehomeschoolonthehill.comAll have nothing to do with my industry. It looks like someone used a program to create the links because many are hidden by css you can only see them when you view the page source.
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It is certainly possible though fairly unlikely unless you are in a very competitive industry or have a mortal enemy for some reason.
Have you checked the new links? If they are all sketchy links then you should definitely look into it more.
Hubspot has a tool for keeping track of incoming link quality which is what I use. Presumably Moz has something similar.
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