WP Datar site shady linking to my site
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Hello,
I have done some research on this but cannot find a solid answer to my question. After recently reviewing my "not found" errors in webmaster tools, I see that a site called "WP Datar" has linked to a number of our pages that actually do not exist. I am wondering first, if this will harm our site, and second, what is the best way to get those links from their site taken down? I tried emailing, but of course, the email address listed on the site did not work.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.Thanks!
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Glad to help
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Thanks so much Andy. You have been extremely helpful.
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Hi,
Just to confirm, this is for the disavow file, which is a .txt file.
You can use what I have there, but just remember to change the bits with the dates in. You are also correct that over 200,000 is probably not a good thing. I would suspect that many links are the result of being added to a large number of sites, who list you on many pages / sitewide links.
-Andy
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also, one of our clients has 212,113 links pointing to our site. This is bad correct? and how could this be?
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Hi Andy,
Thank you so much for your help! So, can I add the snippet above to an existing robots.txt file or do I create a new one? I just don't want to mess up anything that is working for us.
Thanks again...
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Hi,
It is always good in these cases, to err on the side of caution. It shouldn't harm your site, but to be safe, disavow the site through Webmaster Tools. Just remember to add a note to the file to explain that you have been in touch asking the site to remove the links, but they have not responded.
If you haven't disavowed a site before, copy this into a .txt file:
# The following site was contacted on <date>requesting removal of links. No reply was ever received and links remain.</date>
# Correct as of<todays date=""></todays>domain:wpdatar.com
When the file is ready, you can upload it here https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main?pli=1
-Andy
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