domains that harming my ranking
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how can i know domains harming my ranking
I ’ve seen a drop in rankings, Domain Authority , so I need to know sites who is linking to my domains that cause this decline.. i can use Open Site Explorer but i need to know the site that harm my ranking ..
thanks
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I agree with both responses, I would like to add my experience to the mix, my site decreased in Domain Authority and Page Authority due to the loss of a few sites that were no longer linking in a few months ago, my site is relatively new and the Domain Authority went from 20 to 18, it has since increased to 19 after a few new sites linked in so that could well be the reason for your DA drop, I am not aware of any recent Google Updates but I do know that my Moz DA was updated a few days ago so that may coincide with your recent drop, I am not sure how often Google updates the link data in GWT so it may vary from what you see in OSE and Majestic SEO, as Chris says, the historical link option for Majestic SEO is very handy and the data seems to be updated quite frequently also.
Hope this helps
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Agree with eyepaq that Google Webmaster Tools is the starting place. And if there is no Manual Action notice you may still have an algorithmic penalty. There can be many other reasons for your drop in rankings both on page and off page. But if your concern is your backlink profile there are a few other tools in addition to GWT and OSE. Take a look at Majestic which has a historical view that can show lost links. And if you don't mind paying there is always Link Detox.
Best of luck!
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Hi,
It's not about having domain linking to you that can cause harm (unless you have a manual action that will be visible in Web master Tools under Manual actions).
In a lot of cases, if it's related with the link profile, is that you are losing some links or Google stop counting some links that they consider bad.
First step would be to look into Web Master Tools and see if you have a manual action - site wide or a partial one for un-natural links. If that is the case then yes, you will need to review the links in your link profile and identify the bad ones and remove as many as possible and disavow the bad ones. (including the ones you remove).
More on disavow here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2648487?hl=en
If you don't have a manual action then the issue might lie elsewhere ... again expect from the fact that you might lose links or google stop counting some. For that you need a tool that shows the history - how many links did you gain and lose in the last months or so...
Hope it helps to get you started.
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