I got hit by penguin
- SEO |
Well, a client websites rankings have been dropping for a range of different keywords, they are also not even appearing for some search terms, they have been deleted off the face of Google.
I started to look into what recent changes I had made, I added quite a few follow links onto the homepage of the site, so I decided to add a rel="nofollow" attribute to those. I also discovered through some backlink software that quite a few (15+) websites, spammy websites, are referencing a link on their site.... www.********.com/i/.
I then discovered that /i/ redirects to another page on my website...ofcourse Google will count this as a valid working link, considering it redirects to a valid page. I have hundreds of these links coming from forums, spammy websites etc.
To resolve this I made a few changes to the code, so /i/ now displays a 404 error.
Will this resolve the issue? Do 404 links still hurt SEO? Do I still need to disavow these links, or shall I just leave them considering they are broken links?
All help would be much appreciated, I could imagine quite a few of us is going through a hard time atmo.
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