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Spammy Links to my client website - Rankings gone down

by Jom Alex [BIZFAB]
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Hi Friends,

Recently when i was going through webmaster property for one of my clients website, under the links to website i saw a huge amount of backlinks (40000+). I dnt know how this backlinks are created, are they autogenerated? I dnt know what to cal - Spamindexing or web spamming or google bombing or spammy links. Another major thing is, my well ranked keywords gone down. Client website is not found in any SERP positions. So, I disavow the links with webmaster tools. But still those links are shown. How long it will take for webmasters to monitor these links and remove it

please do direct me

Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Originally Posted by Jom Alex [BIZFAB] View Post

    Hi Friends,

    Recently when i was going through webmaster property for one of my clients website, under the links to website i saw a huge amount of backlinks (40000+). I dnt know how this backlinks are created, are they autogenerated? I dnt know what to cal - Spamindexing or web spamming or google bombing or spammy links. Another major thing is, my well ranked keywords gone down. Client website is not found in any SERP positions. So, I disavow the links with webmaster tools. But still those links are shown. How long it will take for webmasters to monitor these links and remove it

    please do direct me

    Thanks
    It's tough to tell you anything about the links without seeing them.

    You can disavow whatever you want. You will never know if Google disavows them or not. They don't tell you and they will still show up in Search Console.

    According to Google, after the last Penguin update they are no longer punishing sites for spammy links, so it is unlikely that these links you are seeing are your ranking problem.
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    • Profile picture of the author michaelkoehler92
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      It's tough to tell you anything about the links without seeing them.

      You can disavow whatever you want. You will never know if Google disavows them or not. They don't tell you and they will still show up in Search Console.

      According to Google, after the last Penguin update they are no longer punishing sites for spammy links, so it is unlikely that these links you are seeing are your ranking problem.
      Yes Mike is right, You did disavow the links but its upon google now if they want to disavow them or not.
      Best would be to keep calm for a while and keep sending social signals that will show search engine that your content is been shared.
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  • Profile picture of the author expmrb
    40k backlinks all of a sudden!!!!!!!

    Its got to be spam. I will suggest that you directly report it to Google Support forum.
    https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport

    Report your entire problem.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by expmrb View Post

      40k backlinks all of a sudden!!!!!!!

      Its got to be spam.
      Not necessarily.

      I have seen huge spikes in links like that from blog commenting. If it is a big site and they run one of those "recent comments" widgets, it can happen. If Google crawls the site at the right time, it sees the link on every page.

      Same thing can happen with directories. Sometimes they run a "new listings" type of widget.
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

        Not necessarily.

        I have seen huge spikes in links like that from blog commenting. If it is a big site and they run one of those "recent comments" widgets, it can happen. If Google crawls the site at the right time, it sees the link on every page.

        Same thing can happen with directories. Sometimes they run a "new listings" type of widget.

        That's what I was thinking, site wide sidebar latest comments.

        OP never said If it was 40K unique domains.
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  • Profile picture of the author NateOlsen
    You can Disavow your links through webmaster tools https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main

    That's the best advice or you can manually track down each link email webmaster etc.. but you're talking about months of work alternatively you could start over with a new domain but working with Google is typically the best method.
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  • Profile picture of the author YasirYar
    Originally Posted by Jom Alex [BIZFAB] View Post

    Hi Friends,

    Recently when i was going through webmaster property for one of my clients website, under the links to website i saw a huge amount of backlinks (40000+). I dnt know how this backlinks are created, are they autogenerated? I dnt know what to cal - Spamindexing or web spamming or google bombing or spammy links. Another major thing is, my well ranked keywords gone down. Client website is not found in any SERP positions. So, I disavow the links with webmaster tools. But still those links are shown. How long it will take for webmasters to monitor these links and remove it

    please do direct me

    Thanks
    I would suggest first messaging/emailing the webmaster who is linking out to you like that.

    Most likely, it is just a link farm designed to spam websites in order to get quick rankings. It could also be your competitor doing so in order to spam your site.

    Anyway, Google appreciates it if you first make all the effort you can to get the links removed before filing for a disavow.

    Hope that helps.
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