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Hi,

Interesting question!
As far as I know it will not damage the main business, from algorithms' "point of view", you will have a broader amount of keywords associated by the algorithms to the website, although it will be hard to positionate those pages unrelated to the main content. Also depending on the bounce rate and if those pages attract visitors.

Said that, like in everydays life you do not trust on a business with multiple faces i.e., your buyers wish to see content related to the t shirts, fabrics and designs.

A professional website needs to be coherent, therefore if you plan to set up a blog I suggest that you post about the main business. Good luck and Happy New Year 2020.

Mª Verónica

Hi,

Hope this enlightens the main issues regarding on how to improve DA and PA.

First, about the inbound links; although you have 18 domains pointing links to your website, 12 of the 18 domains had set the links as nofollow:  https://analytics.moz.com/pro/link-explorer/linking-domains?site=https%3A%2F%2Fpickhunting.com%2F&src=mb&state=not_deleted&target=domain&type=nofollow

The website has 22 page titles equal to each H1. It is a best practise to include the Brand at the end of the page title. Why at the right end? Brand matters a lot, but first the name and keywords that tells the potential visitors and to the algorithms of the Search Engines what each page is about. At the same time, by including the brand into each page title, you will differentiate the page title from the H1 as it should be.

If somebody is looking for your brand, that action does not need SEO, due to already knows about you. SEO is for new searchers looking for your products and/or services.

Page title: About | Pick Hunting
H1: About

Maybe, you can set up unique meta descriptions for each page. Perhaps using the free Yoast plugin can help with the task. Good luck and Happy New Year 2020!

Mª Verónica

Hi,

You have to pay attention to the Google Search Console reports. For example, you can see how many pages got indexed, if there are mistakes, check the speed report, etc. Any issue that appears there, fix it up asap.

Also, you might wish to consider to apply structured data and/or schema markup.
Last but not less important, content, perhaps you can include more data on each page, like the history of the musicians, the musical instruments, the recording company and or a blog dedicated to the subject, as example.

Let's say "content is the king" and you have to differentiate your website from others that publish those same lyrics, otherwise you have duplicate content.
Good luck!

Mª Verónica

Hi Ryan,

Congrats on your great link!

Hope this clarifies your doubts.

Did you use the Google Search Console tool "inspect any URL in..." ?

Did you search for the page - Google search box - that has the link, and then follow the link to your website?

Regarding on how the link will improve the DA, it is hard to say. In my experience, can be from 2 up to 12. Why? it dependes on many factors like the PA of the page, if the page is highly related to the content into your website, if that content is "clear" for Google due to your meta tags are also related to the subject, it is within the best practices and so.
Cyrus Shepard en-lights the subject here: https://moz.com/blog/20-illustrations-on-search-engines-valuation-of-links

Good luck! and please update us with the results. Happy New Year!

Mª Verónica

Hi,

Hope this clarifies.

It is not a penalisation, your links are telling to the algorithms of the search engines that your website is popular in the USA and not so popular in the UK.

If your only target market is UK, not delivering to USA; At least 75% of your links should be local, related to the topic, low spam score, dofollow, hopefully PA over the one you are targeting and DA also over your website´s DA. Good luck!

Mª Verónica

Hi Miriam,

Thank you! for taking the time to give me such a complete analysis of the problem here.

You are absolutely right, we have to deal with the encroachment of Google into this space, "our piece of cheese is even smaller as time goes by."

Of course, I will focus on the recommendations and tips you gave me. Really, a very good road map. Thanks again. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Mª Verónica

Hello,

Hope this might help.
As you can imagine, there is not unique pattern for overcome an older well ranked website.
The thing is that the website's authority counts a lot, as well as the brand itself.

Said that, I would recommend to improve the content, check that all the keywords used by the product maker are there. Of course, you have to rewrite it, do not copy and past!.

Into Google Search Console, check the sitemap and all the reports that Google shows nowadays, speed report also. Fix any issue shown there.

Create, if you can, a video, a podcast and/or a PDF. In sum, make your website greater and utmost for the visitors. Work on getting good local inbound links (high DA low spam score and related to the business' subject).
Good luck,

Mª Verónica

Hi,

Sadly, today the spam score is 49!

First, you have to probe to Google that you are a new owner and that you will keep the new website into the Google best practices.

The first thing that you have to do is include the website into Google Search Console and upload the sitemap. https://search.google.com/search-console/about
Hope this helps and put your website in the right path. Good luck.

Mª Verónica

Hi Ryan,

Hope this clarifies the issue.

I conduct SEO Audits, I check the work done by other SEO practitioners. Therefore, I understand that many websites' owners or managers do not differentiate a dofollow from a nofollow link nor a low spam score link from a high spam score link. That's why some link builders show/deliver those useless links to their clients, and clients are very happy at first.

Also, there are plugins for remove the nofollow in WP comments and replace it for dofollow as well as some hackers can change that, you do not notice it, unless you check for an odd plugin and/or changes in the code.

Mª Verónica

Hi Randy,

Hope this clarifies the Google My Business report features.

Although Google My Business belongs to Google as well, GA and GMB are different tools/platforms.

Therefore, the reports of GMB are related to the interactions of the searchers with your Google My Business listing and/or your Google Maps listing, i.e. people that saw your Google My Business or Google Maps and if they called you, or went from there to visit your website. https://www.google.com/intl/en/business/

On the other hand, Google Analytics counts all the traffic that actually went into your website. That includes, organic traffic, direct traffic, social traffic, referral traffic, etc.

Let me know if this is clear enough. All the best,

Mª Verónica

Hi Sarah,

Related to the hosting provider. It is not a very useful answer, but if the price is great... The important thing here is that you are fully aware of the issue now.

Due to your website is a - co.uk - somehow it "compensates" the hosting provider issue.

Regarding the Moz tool that I used - the greatest SEO tool for quick check - is the MozBar for Chrome. https://moz.com/products/pro/seo-toolbar
You have to be logged in and set up; choosing the "dark" option.

Some WP themes offer advice on how to deal with the glitches. You can use the WP website for contact, close to the review option.

About SEO Consultancy, yes, I do.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Mª Verónica

Note: Dec 23.

Did you set up your Google My Business profile?  https://support.google.com/business/answer/2911778/    Miariam's article is a great guide for this:  https://moz.com/blog/rank-beyond-location

Hi Sarah,

• I can see a few issues. First, if you check in Google
  " site:homefarmlogs.co.uk " the website is there, but not the homepage.

• Did you include the new website, i. e. after the migration from http to https into Google Search Console? Also, check into the GSC if you have a manual penalisation.

• I can see multiple meta descriptions. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vvsh9BdiG5NsOZaXY0tgdSgvUa1KQ_04/view?usp=sharing

• Maybe, you might use the Yoast plugin for write down the meta tags and the images alt tags.

• The website appears located in Roumania, you might need to contact your host provider.

• The speed of the homepage is over 3 sec. Into Google Search Console you will find accurate data on that regard.

Hope these helps. Good luck!

Mª Verónica

Hi Miriam,

Thank you so much for taking time to answer this.

So far, officially Google Jobs is not working in Ireland, but in fact we see these results for almost all best keywords.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hqi8nt2A_up9R0UZgxyjq-VXjg3O7HRl/view

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OFH-qreM4lKlfJ_-RLYBNh1Kcw_j8k1Y/view

Big jobs companies, pull jobs data and publish it "mediated" by them.
Therefore, my client's website from rank an average of #9 two months ago, now it has an average of #11.

That is one result. Of course, the big companies publish the jobs, which are published first in my client's website. Those companies do not offer a link to my client's website, instead the URL without a link, the same with the contact email.

Truly, I can advise him to improve the structured data for jobs, but with those overwhelming DAs, I am not sure if it might work at all.

I am fully aware that it is imposible to compete with companies with over 100,000 back-links, despite my client has a 21 years old recruiter company with great reputation.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance for any help and/or thinking about the issue.

Hi Moz fans,

I face an issue with Google for Jobs, Dublin, Ireland market.
My client, a local job agency lose rank, his posts appear mediated by other big job companies who have high DA, over 60, client has less than 30 DA.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.

Mª Verónica

Hi,
I am so sorry that a general advice was offensive for you.
You know best what caused what.
I apologize too, on regard a quote I did not translate properly for you.

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Hi,

As you already noticed on regard SEO, it is not water which passed under the bridge, since 2004, it was a whole flood!

Said that, I strongly recommend that you update the SEO of your old domain before consider a migration or a redirect.
Nowadays, Google knows a lot about the owner of any domain. That is a factor too.

All succesfull migrations bring almost all the SEO rank, whether is a good or a bad one. If your website is now having a penalization due to old back links, link schemes from the past that you might have forgotten or you do not know about, lack of h1: the best option is to fix up all the SEO issues, accordingly to SEO 2018 best practices, before the migration or redirect.

Sadly, Google has long term excelent memory and great data bank. Good luck and Happy New Year!

Mª Verónica

Hi,

Assuming that each page that you are referring has unique content, meta tags in place, etc. In sum, complies with the SEO best practices.
The answer to that difference might be into the "ecosystem of its content and queries".
If a page answers a query and is indexed soon. That is not guarantee that another page with different content will have the same result.
We might say it is about each topic: if the content value/answer was fully addressed by other webpages, algorithms might not be interested soon. Rankbrain plays a role into this matter. Good luck!

Mª Verónica

Hi Miriam,

Thanks for your good wishes and thoughts of hope!

Starting this 2018 full of hope.
When it comes to Local SEO and Google, some headaches do not go away.
It comes to my mind a client with only 11 though honest reviews in Google.
Trying to achieve some success, though his main competitor who bought over 1.000 self/fake reviews, is top listed everywhere.
This is the moment when it is hard to tell a client: "your competitor is clearly cheating. Please, do not do the same".
It is the right thing to do, hopefully will be rewarded some day, but when!.
In the meantime, he is losting a hugh of potential sales.
Clients/visitors truly believe that over 1,000 reviews are for real.

Hope a new algorithms update soon, I mean if a list has more than 1,000% reviews on regard its ecosystem, at least a double check should be in place.

Happy New Year 2018!

Hi Brooks,

Thanks for the input. It is great to know that it is also working in your ecosystem.

Hi Sainath,

What at first seems to be inexplicable, appear possible causes.
First a pop up, which Google penalizes since last February.
Secondly, despite the chain of redirects, the second page has better PA and mR.
Hope this helps. Good luck!

Mª Verónica

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Hello William,

Thanks for the input.
I noticed that sometimes Google chooses text randomly. Till now I cannot find a pattern, sometimes from the first paragraph, others from the middle of the page. Although, regarding the pages already SEO optimized, I mean with adecuate page title, meta description and h1, it is showing the written meta description.

Best regards

Hi Darko,
Sorry, my above comment was more a solution than an explanation.
Due to for Google and Moz the www and the non www are different websites, you might have different spam score results. The same applies for the http and the https versions of a website.
As Meghan sayd, depending on the inbound links each version of your website has, the spam score result might differ each other.
Therefore, the solution is to chose one version, only one and force to that option ie no matter how is written the chosen option will be displayed. Which one? the one that already has better inbound links. If more than one version of your website has already inbound links, a good option is to set a permanent redirect - 301 - from one to the other, so to carry the "link juice". Hope this clarifies a bit.

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I updated a few home pages and some landing pages, so far so good!

Although, I wish to know about other experiences, before continue updating. Thanks for your comments!

Hi,

Sorry, no good news. I checked from here (South America). It is not working for download. Although if you have an old installation, it is working smoothly. I think, due to the holiday, you will have to wait till tomorrow.

If you need to verify something urgently I can do it for you.   

Mª Verónica

Hi IcarusSEO,

As Alick has said, you do not need to write it into the meta description. Although, if you have a local business you might consider include it into your NAP (name, address, phone) if it is necesary as part of your business name.

On regard the meta descriptions, Google now allows up to 320 characteres, although best SEOs recommend about 290 characters. Therefore plenty of room for write compelling meta descriptions. Good luck.

Mª Verónica

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Hi Leana,

Sorry William, I think it truly matters, not to the point that you will be penalized, of course.
But:
UX is the uttermost goal for Google and the other search engines, specially nowadays. In that sense, visitors who have to read the same text twice, might no trust your brand for buying your products or simply very displeased would closed the window.

As days pass your bounce rate could rise. If so, the algorithms will decide to show other websites with similar content before yours, answering the same query, due to the bounce rate tells to the algorithms that you do not offer a good UX.

In sum, would the duplicated content serve the UX? Of course not. Therefore you might try other options like rewrite the introductory lines above.

On regard the duplicated content between the product pages and the brand category pages, it is the same as explained above. Although if there is no other way to improve those duplicated you have to use canonical tags pointing to the originals more valuable pages, ie the brand category pages. Good luck.

Mª Verónica

Hi Darko,

It is important that you chose only one option for your website. If the www and non www versions of your website are working at the same time, you will have duplicated content issues. Chose the version that you are using into the host provider options for show your website (the one that has good inbound links). Also for Google those are completely different websites:

How to do it?:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6332964?

Where?
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

What properties?:
http://example.com/
https://example.com/
http://www.example.com/
https://www.example.com/

After all those were done:
Into this property only: https://www.example.com/ (Assuming that you prefer the https www version)
verify the robot texts
upload a sitemap
fetch as google

Good luck!

Mª Verónica

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Hi Charles,

I strongly recommend to follow Miriam Ellis' article. Written for SEO practitioners, she enlights the most common mistakes that prevent the success.

Also, I suggest to include your properties (all the variations of your domain) into the Google Search Console, if you did not do already.
Bullet points for local SEO business:

• NAP (name, address, phone) copy and paste for avoid mistakes.
• Google Search Console
• Google Analytics
• Google My Business
• Google Maps

Persistance is the key for SEO success, do not desmay. Good luck!

Mª Verónica

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Hi Tom,

Great question!
Maybe if you see the Hs as what they are. I mean, like newspapers titles (heads). The purpose of the Hs is to give a clear clue about the content that follows. If you set a head with no further content, it is not a good UX. Also the algorithms of the search engines might qualify the page as "thin content", which will not help for getting a good PA at all.

H1: Christmas 2017
Content: Santa is travelling all over the world...

H2: Santa visited Australia
Content: One of his first visits this year...

H3: Kids were atonished
Content: Santa brought amazing presents...

Good luck and Merry Christmas!

Mª Verónica

It seems it will take some time. Quote: "Disavow Files: Again, because Spam Score won't perfectly catch everything, you will likely need to do some additional work here (especially if the site you're working on has done some link buying on more generally trustworthy domains), but it can save you a heap of time evaluating and listing the worst and most obvious junk."

On regard your question, yes it is possible to improve the spam score, though it might take some time. Also, if you check and improve the other factors, the website might improve the spam score faster.

Mª Verónica

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Hi Saksham,

Moz considers 17 main factors for the spam score. Therefore it might take more efforts for down the spam score. Attached a link to the blog that explain each one in detail. Good luck!

Mª Verónica

✓Low MozTrust or MozRank Score
The site link profile is not trustworthy.

✓Large Site with Few Links
We found very few sites linking to this site, considering its size.

✓Site Link Diversity is Low
The diversity of link sources to this subdomain is low.

✓Ratio of Followed to Nofollowed Subdomains
The ratio of followed to nofollowed subdomains linking to this subdomain is outside the normal range of others in our index.

✓Ratio of Followed to Nofollowed Domains
The ratio of followed to nofollowed domains linking to this subdomain is outside the normal range of others in our index.

✓Small Proportion of Branded Links
Links to this subdomain have low amounts of branded anchor text.

✓Thin Content
A subset of pages within this subdomain have little content.

✓Site Mark-up is Abnormally Small
There's a high ratio of visible text compared to HTML, JavaScript, etc.

✓Large Number of External Links
A subset of pages within this subdomain has a large number of external links.

✓Low Number of Internal Links
Pages crawled on the subdomain have a small number of internal links.

✓Anchor Text Heavy Page
There's a high ratio of anchor text compared to content text.

✓External Links in Navigation
There's a large number of external links within sidebars and footers.

✓No Contact Info
None of the pages crawled contain an email address or links to a social profile.

✓Low Number of Pages Found
Crawl only gets a valid response to a small number of pages.

✓TLD Correlated with Spam Domains
This subdomain is on a top level domain (TLD) extension often found to be the source of spam links.

✓Domain Name Length
This domain name's character count is higher than average.

✓Domain Name Contains Numerals
Domain names including numbers are often found to be the source of spam links.

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Hi Paul,

The wrong name in the 'Property name' field or wrong setting in the http or https doesn't affect the data collection in your GA account. The data is collected via UA number in the GA tag for your website regardless of the domain your GA tag is on.

Assuming GA is linked to Google Search Console, where it is essential to verify all the properties and choose the preferred one for getting accurate data, plus this will "help me avoid a common problem others have experienced".

Mª Verónica

Hi Vtmoz,

Google will not respond at all. I mean Google has no way to know that it was a mistake, unless many websites hosted by the same host provider had the same behaviour.

Said that, I assume that you fixed the issue and into the Google Search Console you checked the robot texts, updated the sitemap (s) and "fetched as Google" too. Good luck!

Mª Verónica

Hi Kamishah,

On regard your question, is domain redirection a good method for SEO?
No, it is not.

Said that, if the mistake was already done: you should study the DA and the spam score of the xyz site before thinking on setting a 301 domain redirect.

Considering that the xyz site has a low spam score and a good DA, at least equal to the solutionfall.com you might go ahead.

Perhaps you consider, from now on, to get true organic backlinks by having unique high quality content instead of "comment backlink". Good luck!

Mª Verónica

Hi Nickington,

Good question!

The FAQs are for better UX.
Also, thinking on mobile UX it is great to have a list and quickly find out the option that I really need.
Browseo's amazing tool might help you to kow out what are the signasl that the algorithms can read about a page of your website.

Said that, I think that your FAQs page is doing great.
Although you might consider to check the Moz SEO Guide on regard the Meta Keywords. Good luck!

Mª Verónica

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Hi Paul,

If I understood correctly, we are talking about two different websites, not a website with subdomains.
Hreflang can be used for other languages and countries although not for masking 100% duplicated content as I stated above.

site A: https://www.fortresssecuritystore.com

site B: https://www.fortresssecuritystore.co.uk

The recommendations that Google gives are for the purpose of having the pages crawled and indexed not for having success with 100% duplicate content which do not serve a good UX, therefore gain a high bounce rate, then the overall SEO fall down.

Mª Verónica

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Hi Jim,

Forgot to mention the bad news on regard a migration to https, due to Google considers the https a new website, it will crawl all as "a new website".
That is great at first, though any failure from old times will appear with "red flags" because the 2017 algorithms will work. I mean broken links, 404s and so, that you didn´t know those were there, will be shown up.

That is why it is highly advisable to perform an SEO audit and fix up all, before the migration.
Although, in many years of SEO practice, only one client came before the migration.

Hope you recover your website's great DA soon

oEQREK

Hi CommercePundit,

Sadly, there is not "a non painful way to say it".
You cannot gain business from Adwords and Organic SEO marketing having 100% duplicated content.

The options; canonical and hreflang would not work in this case.

The only option is language "localization", mean rewrite the whole content by a local writer.

Canonical can be used for up to 10% not for the whole 100%. Hreflang can be used for other languages and countries although not for masking 100% duplicated content.

Sorry to tell the bad news. Good luck!

Mª Verónica

Hi Kevin,

Assuming that you set up a 301 (permanent redirect) from the http to the https:

How to do it?:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6332964?

Where?
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

What properties?:
http://example.com/
https://example.com/
http://www.example.com/
https://www.example.com/

After all those were done:
Into this property only: https://example.com/ (Assuming that you prefer the https non www version)
verify the robot texts
upload a sitemap
fetch as google
You will see data starts to be shown and index within a few days.

Forgot to mention the bad news on regard a migration to https, due to Google considers the https a new website, it will crawl all as "a new website".

That is great at first, though any failure from old times will appear with "red flags" because the 2017 algorithms will work. I mean broken links, 404s and so, that you didn´t know those were there, will be shown up.

That is why it is highly advisable to perform an SEO audit and fix up all, before a migration.

Although, in many years of SEO practice, only one client came before the migration.

You do NOT change the Analytics code, therefore it will continously showing old data and new data into the same view. Good luck!

Mª Verónica

Hi Roger,

Assuming that link goes to a page in your website that shows your services and/or portfolio, it is perfect! Another option if it goes to the "about us" page...

Said that, you should have the permission of the owner.

Secondly, if it is a new domain, ie DA 1 and PA 1 you might consider a nofollow link. But, it is a guessing, I mean if in a matter of months that client climbs the sky in terms of DA and PA, you will not be happy by having that nofollow link.

On regard the foot links, I understand that is a rule mostly for websites having an structure of affiliates. In your case, it is part of your ecosystem, meaning almost all do the same in the industry of Website Developers Companies. Good luck!

Mª Verónica

Note: I had to edit, due to I misunderstood the question - thanks to Paul I got it.

Hi Jim,

Did you upload a "disavow all" file?
No
Great

Did you add the new property - https - to the Google Search Console?
how to add https to Google Search Console? Should we do it or not?

Yes you ought to!
You have to add all versions of the website (if you did not add the http versions in the past to Google Search Console, formerly known as Google Webmasters).

Where?:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

How to do it?:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6332964?

What properties?:
http://infohub.com/
https:/infohub.com/
http://www.infohub.com/
https://www.infohub.com/

After all those were done:
Into this property only: https://www.infohub.com/
veryfy the robot texts
upload a site map
fetch as google
You will see data starts to be shown and index within a few days.

Did you inadverted deleted the Google Analytics code?
Don't think so. We still see site traffic stats in our GA account. That means the GA code is in place, right?
Yes.

Good luck!

Mª Verónica

Hi Ajaz,

Sorry, all the time I was assuming that you set your Google+ profile as public.

If it is public, it will be indexed by Google. In that case, if you have content that answers a query done in the search box, your Google+ might appear in the organic search results. If you have a local business, open to the public, you might appear with your Google My Business' page too. As well as a page of your website that might be answering the query.

Basically three options for answer a query and be in the organic results simultaneously, into one page of organic results.

Therefore not limited to only one: if Google My Business and Google+ are coherents with your website's NAP and content.

Attached image shows a triple pack.

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Hi Kingalan,

This tutorial might help you.
It worked smoothly for me. Hope it works for you too. Good luck!

Mª Verónica

Ps: In case you are using the Yoast plugin, there is an option into the set up for display or not the dates.

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Hi EGOL,

Answering your question: Yes, it is a great option, especially due to sharing an URL is not time consuming at all.

So far, from time to time I include the link of an article. Although, I only focus on having a free glass window for some of my work.
Linked to my website, which by the way I let dropped down due to it was to much time consuming.
Like in almost all professions I have practically no time for my own stuff, fully dedicated to my clients.          That is more than enough if I wish a life for myself.

Mª Verónica

Hi Bee,

1.- Yes, please disavow those! I do not recommend to wait.
The awful quality of them is by default harming. Also the amount, if you have 50 good inbound links, I mean that you worked hard for getting them, having 100 low quality, that is a great proporcion. Please do it carefully, include only the spam ones.  You can use Moz´s Open Site Explorer for verify the spam score. Never use "disavow all".

How: verify into the Google Search Console:

a) Search Traffic, b) Links to Your Site, c) Who links the most, d) All domains.

There you will get a list of all domains.

Download it, erase from the list all the good inbound domains. Then you will have a list of domains for disavow, save as .text and upload to Google Disavow Tool.

You have to verify in all the properties, just in case. If it is necessary repeat the process in the affected property. Remember that for Google, every possible version of your website is a different property, for this purpose and many others.

http://www.example.com

http://example.com

https://www.example.com

https://example.com

Remember to disavow into Bing Websmasters too.

2.- Google might notice those as spammy or might "think" that you bought those.

3. It is possible, by the police or a highly skilled hacker. Therefore not many options.

4.- On the contrary. You notice them you took action. Good luck!

Mª Verónica

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Hi Jim,
Besides Gaston and Eli's responses, I truly think that is weird.
I mean that you have not a single inbound link after 22 years!
Did you upload a "disavow all" file?
Did you add the new property - https - to the Google Search Console?
Did you inadverted deleted the Google Analytics code?
Good luck!
Mª Verónica

Hi Neil,

Although no SEM here   I think this is the path for your needs:

https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/6100636

It seems that you are truly thinking ahead. That is great. Good luck!

Mª Verónica

Hi Ajaz,

From SEO point, yes it's worth!
You already stated that helps for faster indexing just by sharing your content there, pasting an URL from your website´s articles.
Those links, as you said, do not pass ranking due to all of those are "nofollow". Although, the algorithms of the search engines read those signals anyway.
Every good SEO signal counts.

Perhaps you might consider to share posts of fellow SEOs from overseas, who have similar topics although no direct competitors, of course.
Also some nice comments, from time to time, work like magic for social engagement.

By the way, G+ is one of the options of having up to 3 mentions into a single page of results; the triple pack, a page of your website that anwers the query and an organic result from your Google+ that answers the query too. Good luck!

Mª Verónica

Hi Viz,

As far as know there is no written or spoken rule on that regard. Said that, for me the safest option is to do it calmly.
I consider risky to appear overnight with a bunch of links.

If I have to do it, I would chose a few, then I would wait for the indexicing. After that I would verify the consecuences, if any.
This way, in case something goes wrong I will know what caused what. Good luck.

Mª Verónica

Hi,

As Gastón said, you can disavow one by one.

It is not considered an spam link if under 5, a reasonable amount of them and highly related to the industry/niche.

I forgot to mention a basic, that almost all active websites have as normal an spam score 1/17 - 2/17 - 3/17 up to 4/17. Even Moz has 1/17. It might be due to the site has too many inbound links and little outbound links - algorithms might see that as unnatural - it is highly probable, we do not know for sure, that the amount of inbound/outbound links should be according to other websites in the same industry and location. Although, Moz has a lot of inbound links due to is the best SEO source of knowledge and SEO tools.

If as you said, your inbound links are from clients, do not disavow them unless the spam score goes over 6 or 7.

Ma Verónica B.