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Bad Backlinks to my client website from Competitor - Advice Required

by andolini7110
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Hey Folks,

I have been working on a website SEO for almost a year now and all keywords are on top positions. A week before when i was checking backlinks to my website, i noticed many bad inbound links to my website created by pingback requests with anchors like "viagra", "sex", "porn" etc. which, i suppose is done by some competitor for negative seo.

I have updated a disavow request in WM for all those bad linking domains. Should i be doing anything more? or that's enough?

Also i am not sure if i will loose rankings as i have updated disavow request.

Need Advice Please!
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  • Profile picture of the author nik0
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    Contact the site owners and ask them to remove the link, just relying on disavow might not always work.

    Building more quality links is also a way to over ride the spammy links.
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    • Profile picture of the author andolini7110
      Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

      Contact the site owners and ask them to remove the link, just relying on disavow might not always work.

      Building more quality links is also a way to over ride the spammy links.
      But there are thousands of them It will take a lot of time! many will not reply and bad links are mostly from spam posts.

      Thanks anyways
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      • Profile picture of the author nik0
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        Originally Posted by andolini7110 View Post

        But there are thousands of them It will take a lot of time! many will not reply and bad links are mostly from spam posts.

        Thanks anyways
        You can load the URL's into a free tool from Matthew Woodward I think called RankCracker, just Google it. That thing categorizes the links and try's to find email addresses from all the sites. Maybe there's also some method to bulk mail them all at once.

        Sure a lot of email addresses won't even show up but it's worth a try and it gives of a good signal to Google I suppose that you not solely rely on them.
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  • Profile picture of the author scottmacair
    Originally Posted by andolini7110 View Post

    Hey Folks,

    I have been working on a website SEO for almost a year now and all keywords are on top positions. A week before when i was checking backlinks to my website, i noticed many bad inbound links to my website created by pingback requests with anchors like "viagra", "sex", "porn" etc. which, i suppose is done by some competitor for negative seo.

    I have updated a disavow request in WM for all those bad linking domains. Should i be doing anything more? or that's enough?

    Also i am not sure if i will loose rankings as i have updated disavow request.

    Need Advice Please!
    In my experience those types of spam links shouldn't hurt you, especially if you have some good incoming links. To be on the safe side I would disavow them but don't worry and move on.
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