Link Spam from Competitor Help

[webbroi]

A clients link profile is recently getting lots of spam links related to "abortion pills" and "does my husband cheat"  I found a few of the sites that link, and it appears that there is some malicious code on the site injecting links at the top of the site.

http://www.med-reporter.at/index.asp?men=Gesundheit&submen=Produkte&artid=1587&kategorie=&blockzl=3

Can anyone look at the link above and tell me what network or software is creating these links?

[RuthBurrReedy]

There's not a whole lot to be done about other sites getting hacked, unfortunately - even if you did find the program/network that is creating the bad links, you might not be able to tell which competitor of yours is doing it, and even if you did it would be difficult to prove or get them to stop. Your client's site may even not be the real target - link spam networks will often target a variety of random sites in addition to their real targets to cover their tracks. The good news is that Google is pretty astute at ignoring these types of links. It's highly unlikely (though not impossible, unfortunately) that your client will see a link penalty from this malware.

Here's what I would do in this situation:

• Contact as many of the hacked sites as you can/want to, and let them know they've been hacked (that's just a courteous thing to do, as it's likely the site owners have no idea, but it's up to you how much time you want to spend on this).
• Be proactive about disavowing as many of the spammy inbound links as you can find (you're probably already doing this, I'm just saying). You could probably do this at a domain level since it sounds like the linking sites aren't related to your client's site in any way.
• Take a little extra time in the next few months to build some high-quality links to your client's site to make their link profile a little extra shiny.

Taking steps to guard against any damage/fix any damage that may have been done will be a better use of your time and effort than trying to figure out who's doing it and why, IMO.

[webbroi]

Thaomas,

Thanks for this.  I'm sorry If I did not make it clear.   My clients site was not exploited, we have hundreds of links from these types of sites.  We think a competitor tried to link spam.

[BlueprintMarketing]

You're looking for the software that creates the links?

use removeem.com in order to find the negative links and remove them

Here is the best place to look for information on malware injections and how to stay safe

https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/

http://urlfind.org/

http://labs.sucuri.net/

https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/www.med-reporter.at/

in order to prevent your site from being attacked in the first place it is best to use a web application firewall

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https://incapsula.com

$ cat /urlfind/motd
URLFind.org - URL Mapping and cross domains links. 
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 _   _ ____  _     _____ _           _ 
| | | |  _ \| |   |  ___(_)_ __   __| |
| | | | |_) | |   | |_  | | '_ \ / _` |
| |_| |  _ <| |___|  _| | | | | | (_| |
 \___/|_| \_\_____|_|   |_|_| |_|\__,_|

<form id="s1" action="http://urlfind.org/?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.med-reporter.at%2Findex.asp" method="get" name="s1">http:// Check this site now!</form>

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**Site:** http://www.med-reporter.at

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www.med-reporter.at URL and Link Analysis

www.med-reporter.at  --------->  [www.med-reporter.at (nobody else)](http://urlfind.org/?site=med-reporter.at)
                     links to

www.med-reporter.at  <---------  [www.med-reporter.at (nobody else)](http://urlfind.org/?site=med-reporter.at)
                     linked from

No iframes detected (in or out).

No Remote Javascript detected (in or out).

I hope this helps,

Thomas