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Hi Nakul, many thanks for your inputs and advice! It's a confirmation and also a peace of mind to hear how other SEO experts think on this issue!

Hi,

We noticed in our Google Webmaster Tool that we have received a total of 10,162 links (still increasing) from Scoop.it over a period of less than 2 months from January. All these links are linking to our home page, and it is topping the list of "Who links the most" under our "Traffic > Links to Your site" in our Google Webmaster. Our second domain that links the most to us only has 1,831 links to our domain.

According to our marketing service company who posted our brief bookmark content on Scoop.it:

"That just has to do with the page structure of that site. If multiple scoop.it users promote your URL, the link will appear multiple times on each user's page.  Plus, it's a curated site, so the link will be recommended to other users. Scoop.it has an Alexa of <1000 so it's a very popular site. If Facebook was fully indexed by Google (and other search engines and crawlers had full access), you'd see a similar situation.

There's currently no way to exclude specific social sites, sorry for the bad news.

The high # of links from scoop.it are totally normal (and natural for that domain), it's just because of all their internal linking. Google seems to LOVE scoop.it (60M+ pages indexed), so I wouldn't worry."

However, we still don't feel comfortable with the explanation because it appear so very unusual and clearly appear to be 'Unnatural' to us as we concern. I wonder if anyone knows if this would get us into trouble with Google? More seriously, get us deindexed due to 'Unnatural' backlinks in short period of time, from one single domain? Can anybody advise us what could we do with the current situation?

Highly appreciate your advise, and many thanks!

Enam

Hi MIriam,

Thank you for your excellent reference and great info!

According to your link at http://searchengineland.com/be-wary-of-call-tracking-numbers-in-local-search-26895, we suspect that our call tracking may not be done correctly because it uses a new anchor number instead of our business number on our website.

I have also created a new Google+ Local page following Mark's suggestion, and will see how it goes.

Really appreciate the helpful feedbacks from SEOmoz, we just joined the community a few days ago and it seems very useful!

Enam

Hi, Thank you so much for all your feedbacks! SEOSHARK, I still have no solid evidence that the phone tracking codes are causing us the issue....may I ask, when you have phone tracking codes on your website, do they give you an anchor phone number and show dynamic phone numbers on your websites from time to time whenever the website is refreshed? And you have a different phone number on your Google Place? Rob Rance, many thanks for your points, what is a 'NAP'? Mark Apsey, thank you so much for your suggestion, I can certainly try that approach. But given the current stage, we're quite confuse of which URL to use in creating another Google+ local listing. Can you tell us the link that you use to create another Google+ local listing? Also, when you're asked by Google if it is a duplicate listing, do you have to answer 'Yes' in order to continue to re-claiming the original listing? When you said 'the original listing', did you mean the original Google+ Page that you created? Or your Google Places? Enam

Hi,

Case Resolved

Enam