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Need help! Competitor has 7500 spammy backlinks!

by Jaspry
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In effort to grow my website's authority I've been doing backlink checks on my competitors. One in particular has over 7k spammy backlinks from forum profiles, and over 1k from one spam-farm site alone, and thousands others spread over spam directories. Not one meaningful backlink.

Here's the catch - they are spammy backlinks, but a lot of them are in 'relevant' networks. Does that make it any better?

As of now, I haven't built any backlinks in fear of experiencing this same sudden drop in ranking many others are reporting (ie, fiverr)... but my competitor seems to be doing fine with them, he's still top of page 1 whereas I am still lurking somewhere around page 5.

How should I combat this? Will he ever get penalized? Do I have to do some backlinking tactics of my own?
#7500 #backlinks #competitor #spammy
  • Profile picture of the author allsystems
    How many backlinks does your competitor have in total? He cant have 7k forum backlinks shwoing,thats impossible. Forum backlinks are hardest to index as they are such low quality. I am targetting a hard to rank keyword. Sure it can be done easily with a lot of money but all I have been doing is manual web 2.0 pages and buffing these up with tier 2 and tier 3. I am in position 54 for this keyword. I am now starting to use scrapebox to find high PR blogs. Maybe go the same way?
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    • Profile picture of the author Jaspry
      Originally Posted by allsystems View Post

      How many backlinks does your competitor have in total? He cant have 7k forum backlinks shwoing,thats impossible. Forum backlinks are hardest to index as they are such low quality. I am targetting a hard to rank keyword. Sure it can be done easily with a lot of money but all I have been doing is manual web 2.0 pages and buffing these up with tier 2 and tier 3. I am in position 54 for this keyword. I am now starting to use scrapebox to find high PR blogs. Maybe go the same way?
      I like the scrapebox idea. I might use that to find backlink leads and then do manual commenting myself with relevant, insightful posts. Now let me find my old scrapebox install and dust it off...

      The 1k backlinks from one site was not a forum, it was a blog, and apparently according to Backlink Watch, he had his link on that site for the course of one year. The blog posts were poorly written/spun.

      The forum posts, there were at least 2k on 5 different niche related forums. His responses were 2-10 words each, nothing substantial. Might have hired someone to post for him.

      I'm just surprised Google hasn't caught on to that and penalized the site!
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      • Profile picture of the author Jaspry
        I should also note that his anchor text for those forum posts was "WWW"... literally, three W's. That's how the forum formatted his URL in each post!
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  • Profile picture of the author allsystems
    Forum post or blog posts?
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  • Profile picture of the author footfoot
    Well then, you'll need 7501 spammy backlinks to outrank him....now get too work!!
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  • Profile picture of the author radivoj
    Build high PR backlinks as well gov and edu links and you will see significant increase in the ranking...
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  • Profile picture of the author xxxJamesxxx
    I'd rather build fewer quality backlinks than thousands of low quality crappy backlinks.

    ...Less chance of getting slapped by Google as well if you go down this route.

    James Scholes
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  • Profile picture of the author KeNiQ
    Just build quality backlinks. It may take some work to do but you'll beat him/her eventually
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