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Spammy links redirecting to homepage of site -
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Hey guys,
I'm auditing a website at the moment and Moz is showing a few spammy links linking to it.
The problem is these domains are all 301 redirecting to the domain I'm auditing.
Let's say I'm auditing Site A. Site B is been flagged in Moz OSE with 12 spam flags. When I try to open Site B in a browser, it redirects back to Site A.
What's the best thing to do, here? Disavowing domains redirecting to the site is surely a bad idea?
Cheers.
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Dan/James, thanks for the replies.
The company owns the domains themselves. Turning off the redirects seems like the easiest, and best thing to do.
Cheers guys.
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Can you do anything to adjust the links? As in just find the route domain which might not redirect so you can contact the webmaster
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Who owns the sites redirecting? It's pretty rare to have someone redirecting to a site they don't own or have any business relationship etc with...
If it's the same person, and the redirects are spammy/not sending useful traffic, you can just turn the redirects off.
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