How Am I Linked to These Sites?
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I was going through Google Analytics, specifically looking at the Channels under Acquisition. I found a number of sites that Google is giving credit as sources of traffic.
When I went to the sites, however, and searched the page source for links to my site, I could not find any.My site is www.towermarketing.net.
The sites being listed by GA are:
blackhawkhardware.com
musicas.baixar-musicas-gratis.comIf anyone can tell me how Tower is getting traffic from these sites, and what I can do to fix it - because at this point I am considering them spam - I would appreciate it.
Thanks!
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Many thanks Kristina!
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Ah, I see.
In that case, it's possible that Google crawled these pages a while ago when they did have links to your page, and Google hasn't crawled them since.
As long as you aren't doing anything else spammy, you don't need to worry about 2 pages that Google barely crawls linking to you. If you have some other low quality links or have been penalized in the past, though, you may want to disavow these guys.
Hope that helps!
Kristina
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Hi Kristina,
To be honest, I am confused. We are not receiving any traffic from those sites, but Google Webmaster tools is saying that we are linked to them. I go through the source code and can't see anything suggesting that we are linked in any way.
I am just paranoid that Google will penalize our site when we actually have not done anything spammy.
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Doesn't look like either of these pages are linking to you, although blackhawkhardware.com looks like it's updated a lot, so it could have been a link that has since been moved off the site.
Are you still getting traffic from these sites?
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Any ideas as to how we might be linked to the particular domains?
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One has a specific page:
musicas.baixar-musicas-gratis.com/baixar-musicas-gratis.php
The other is just the domain.
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Is Google reporting just the main domain, or specific pages where the links are coming from?
-Andy
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