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18 commentsWednesday, February 27, 2008

Watch Out For Backlink Sabotage

Competitors could ruin your rep

18 Comments

I got about 1500 links from

I got about 1500 links from that forum. And no...it's not a site wide. I got a link for each session id google had on it

How to fix

So how does one fix these bad backlinks. We went from ranking ten down to 20 under a very strong keyword and were the only one for about 5 pages that had only a PR of 1 and fewer backlinks than anyone. We keep pluggin along trying to make it to the top then al of a sudden we drop to twenty. So is there any software out there that will pull all of our backlinks and tell us which ones are good and bad?

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thank you man perfect

Agreed, they can do harm

Specific types of back links can cause harm, especially when they are in tandem with various hijacks / redirects.

Actually, they can

Actually, links can harm your website, but it takes a precise set of circumstances and set of links to do it, and most webmasters and SEO's do not have the information. If they did, this would be happening much more often unfortunately.

Im not going to go into the

Im not going to go into the details but it doesnt really take a set of circumstances. Originaly people were taught that backlinks were harmless and would only benifit a site. This is no longer true. We have seen a case where just 2 backlinks from a bad site pushed us back on ranking.

backlinks  cant to harm

backlinks  cant to harm your site, because everybody can harm the competitor's site by making bad backlinks.

no matter where the

no matter where the backlinks come from they should not be able to harm you cause you have no control who links to you

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I Tend to Agree, Google Doesnt

Unfortunately there has always been issues with clear message from Google about how this can and cannot hurt you. The problem is in defacto understanding of the problem. From an administrative or upper end front, this doesn't happen, but on the front lines, for webmasters and businesses, clearly it does.

Unfortunately there is a real miscommunication line between Google and webmasters, otherwise would Google would understand this phenomenon better. Alternatively, its possible they already do, but do not want every person to know how volatile the effect really is for fear of massive manipulation

Thank you man

Thank you man

I agree

I don't think that in the long run bad backlinks will hurt you as much as good ones will help.

agreed

At a keynote I was at in SES NY they said taht google does not penalize for bad backlinks, and will just not count them as good.  But linking out to bad neighborhoods is much more damaging

Good stuff

I dont know if google actually penalizes for bad back links, I think they just ignore them, therefore you can't be hurt by them.  Now where linking can get you in trouble is linking out to bad sites or link farms.

Your article

Hi,

If Google is able to detect dodgy links and penalise you for them then it is definitely possible, in fact easy, for a competitor to get you penalised.

I suspect that if the sites linking to you are very bad indeed then it doesn't need that many to hit the trigger. I have some links to a site that are from domains that are in the form randomletters.com, registered to Russian guys that look like mega link farms with many script generated pages on thousands of sub domains all linked together and then on one page there is a single link to me. When I Google the domain name I find they have tens of thousands of back links which are 100% comment spam. We have dropped 10 places for something which is completely out of our control. At least one of our competitors has been similarly targetted.

Counter to this is the fact that if you are in a smaller market that has language specific terms then the thresholds for spam detection are set far too high and it is easy for a site to use grey area links to get to #1 without detection. If the current #1 has say 500 naturally developed backlinks with uncontrolled anchor text then you might be able to get someone in New Delhi to buy you 300 with the right anchor text and take the top slot. And you will never get detected because the spam level is set in 1000s to suit the US market size and we opperate in 100s.

Cheers

 

Sid

This has happend to me in

This has happend to me in the last few weeks. It's not about porn keyword or anything, just a huge amount of backlinks in a few days (all comming from just 5 sites). One of them looks like a broken forum (this might be unintentional). I got about 1500 links from that forum. And no...it's not a site wide. I got a link for each session id google had on it :(

Does anybody have an idee what to do now? My site has been penalized hard and if this continues for to long I will run out of buisisness

Back Link Sabotage

Oh and it's so easy to do. I know of  a real estate company who trawled through 1000s of directories to add their competitors with anchor text that involved certain 'banned words' i.e. swearwords, porn etc... Thankfully, they went bust.

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