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    • Socialdom
      Socialdom Subscriber last edited by

      can you block links from other websites?ie: links backlinking to your site, causing a high spam score.

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      • Dan_Tala
        Dan_Tala @YarNik last edited by

        @YarNik
        I have same problem with my site, also in printing business www.sertit.ro
        Lot of bad backlinks from domains with .xyz

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        • YarNik
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          One of my sites https://active-print.kiev.ua/ is the leader of the printing industry in its city, competitors are constantly stealing texts and have been trying to create bad links to the site for 2 years now. It gave me more work, I regularly need to go to the search console and reject outright spam links.

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            • morex
              morex last edited by

              Try to block the IP of the spam websites to your site.

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              • korkshirewill
                korkshirewill last edited by

                Well, you can't really do much about it because you don't know who stands behind these actions. If you discover that a lot of Chinese (.cn) or Russian (.ru) domains are suddenly linking to your website, it might be a good indicator of low-quality backlinks.

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                • Fabian001
                  Fabian001 last edited by

                  Hi @Socialdom agree with everyone's inputs so far.

                  Just wanted to add that when you use the disavow tool, results from it are pretty slow. Could easily take up to 9 months to see any difference. As such, if you have had any rankings hit due to spammy links, you may not see a recovery any time soon.

                  Additionally, if you are using any link audit tools, the disavow links will likely still show up. You should be able to add them to a disavow list within the tool though.

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                  • cmalone5600
                    cmalone5600 last edited by

                    Is there a specific link you feel is spammy? Have you considered disavowing?

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                    • Socialdom
                      Socialdom Subscriber @MasteryQuest last edited by

                      @MasteryQuest 👍

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                      • Socialdom
                        Socialdom Subscriber @Nigel_Carr last edited by

                        @Nigel_Carr Thanks Nigel for the feed back. I only have a few to deal with

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                        • Nigel_Carr
                          Nigel_Carr @Socialdom last edited by

                          @Socialdom said in Block Links From Spam sites:

                          links backlinking to your site

                          The correct way of doing this is to research each backlink thoroughly. There are various tools you can use to do this, each one will give you a list of backlinks and a score of their toxicity. The correct procedure is to:

                          1. Email the offending site and ask for the link to be removed. This is OK if a site has stuffed a link in the footer of their site without realising the damage it can do. I've had it with friends trying to help. Just ask them to remove the link, or maybe move it to a help page or better something related to your website content.

                          2. If you get no joy this way then it's OK to compile a disavow file and upload it to Google. just be VERY CAREFUL doing this as disavowing sites that have a positive effect on your rankings can cause s drop.

                          Read more here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2648487?hl=en

                          The reality is that Google knows whether a link is spam or not and generally ignores them, and unless you have been involved in some dodgy link building all will be OK whatever.

                          If you have received a manual penalty then the proper process of research/disavow must be done thoroughly, but few websites suffer this indignity these days.

                          Just do things properly, build links organically, and your site will be fine. Use the disavow tool sparingly (if at all), replacing each txt file with a fill list each time you do it.

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                          • MasteryQuest
                            MasteryQuest @Socialdom last edited by

                            @Socialdom
                            You cannot block people from posting your links all over the internet.

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