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@tyrerunner I have not found a solution. When I interviewed SEO specialists on my podcast, I asked them and they said Google would ignore them and not to worry - Which I can see when I look at the backlinks Google Search Console has.

The problem is all these SEO tools showing thousands of these backlinks and making it harder for me to use the tool efficiently.

I followed the backlinks and found I'm in good company in these lists of links, it's just too bad that the anchor text is wrong because some of those back links have a decent ranking.

I did go to some of the higher ranked sites and when appropriate, created my own content with links using the right anchor text in the hopes that the matching keywords would help make it clearer - but they have yet to show up on any of the SEO tools or Google.

I did have a few visits from Google looking for that service but I think they were from before I deleted the posts - so the keywords were there to match - I've since fixed that problem.

I deleted the posts on my site but the url doesn't disappear and the page it lands on was empty so I 301 the pages to a 404 telling visitors the site is about brand storytelling and linked to the different pages if they were interested. This 404 page was already developed for those times a page load messed up.

I asked Google - no one has answered me there.

I have offered to sell an ad page on my site to a company and 301 all the links to it. - Not sure if this is a good idea - but I'd like to benefit somehow

If you come up with a solution or a better way to deal with all this spam and still get good data out of Moz etc... please let me know.

Hey - I got an idea.... Not sure if it would work but ... it might be a win - win and solve a problem.

I can sell you a page on my site to write up about escorts with strong keywords -

I can then 301 all those forum and profile pages about escorts that I have thousands of backlinks pointing to your ad / content page instead of the 404 page - There are some high DA and PA backlinks coming in with Escort anchor texts everything from 10-90 DR / DA - However, the Spam % is getting high on the sites linking back to me.

It's a waste of backlink juice as Google just ignores it because my site doesn't have those keywords.

I get easily 100 backlinks a day to the forum posts and profiles that the escort seo person created on my site and I deleted and redirected to a 404 page telling people I'm a brand storyteller.

It's frustrating because on all these SEO tools, the top anchor text for my site is Escort and Call Girl in some town I've never heard of and everyday I'm inundated with new links to these redirected pages.

I don't know how to get rid of any of it or fix it.

We're talking over 400 domains linking back to my site with the anchor text escort and call girl.

It's not going away and I'm NOT an escort site - I'm a brand storyteller.

Only thing - the page would not be in my menu or my site's main pages - I'd create a landing page for the ad/ content page.

If you want to talk about it - Reply to this post about how to get ahold of you.

Shannon Peel
Brand Storyteller
MarketAPeel

I feel like I'm wasting time by going out and creating backlinks for a new page to increase page authority, especially when I've already got the domain link for domain authority.

In your opinion, how important is it to go out and create back links for a page? - am I wasting time I could be using towards creating more great content?

Shannon Peel
Telling Stories about Women
MarketAPeel

@miriamellis Thanks for sharing these links.

As someone who worked in the online review world, I can say that a sudden increase in reviews - all good reviews - can trigger a red flag because it looks suspicious.

If you want to ensure you don't get flagged for suspicious activity, you need to ensure review activity looks plausible. If you have a huge amount of past customers and you are asking them for reviews, send out email requests for reviews in batches over an extended period of time so you are getting a few reviews a day and growing over time. Not a sudden spike.