Removing Bad Links
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Hi all,
I am in the process of conducting a Link Audit and I am faced with quite a lot of seemingly poor quality examples, such as;
http://gotogetaways.com/tag/cunard/
http://jobhiringlocalandabroad.blogspot.com/p/job-hiring-for-cruise-liner-orchestra.html
http://lumukixu.xlx.pl/p-o-cruises-aurora.php
To me these should be removed \ disavowed but I am getting a little resistence from stakeholders regarding the amount of links I am seeking to rid ourselves of - all are of a similar quality to my examples above...
Just so that I know that I am not being 'over eager' with my audit, I welcome your opinions
Thanks
Andy
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Those are poor quality pages and poor quality backlinks for your site. Get rid of them.
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Hi Andy,
If it was me, I'd try to get rid of these links. They might have any metrics showing high DA, PA, CitationFlow, TrustFlow, or any other (depending on what tool that you use). Until they are in no way related to the target URL, they just raise the balance of spammy link in your link profile.
Let's go back and check why do we have a Penguin update at all?
If we go back in time, many link builders (not all of them), have been hunting for links, regardless the source relevancy&quality. Google had to take action and fight the web spam, that we have created (from one hand with link building).
This is my personal opinion, but I hope it does help you convince your "board" to think in quality vs quantity. Try to remind them, that just because a domain has high metrics, it is not a quality site.
I hope this was helpful, good luck!
Gr., Keszi
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Apologies, I have had to update my post with another link example;
http://mixi.jp/view_bbs.pl?comm_id=662866&id=69089695
The argument from my peers here is that the page has a PA of 43 and the domain has a DA of 93 - the site is Japanese!
Thoughts?
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