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Too many links pointing to our privacy policy page: Hurting our ranking efforts of main pages?

by michealtech
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Hi community,

As per the "Links" report from GSC, there are millions of pages pointing to our privacy policy page. We can expect high number of links to this page being ours an open source product. But these links are overtaking the count of links pointing to our homepage which are very artificial from few spammy or low quality sites. "Privacy policy" anchor text is also been the top anchor text.

Our homepage ranking dropped and I suspect this is the culprit. Google might be considering this is the important page being linked on top with anchor text. Shall I Disavow these sites and will this makes Google stop counting links, and the anchor text coming from these sites as well?

Suggestions please.

Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author DABK
    Why do you have so many links to your privacy policy? How many domains are they coming from?

    Before you do anything, you should know the answers to these questions.

    Originally Posted by michealtech View Post

    Hi community,

    As per the "Links" report from GSC, there are millions of pages pointing to our privacy policy page. We can expect high number of links to this page being ours an open source product. But these links are overtaking the count of links pointing to our homepage which are very artificial from few spammy or low quality sites. "Privacy policy" anchor text is also been the top anchor text.

    Our homepage ranking dropped and I suspect this is the culprit. Google might be considering this is the important page being linked on top with anchor text. Shall I Disavow these sites and will this makes Google stop counting links, and the anchor text coming from these sites as well?

    Suggestions please.

    Thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author michealtech
      We are receiving almost 1.9 million from same domain which is of low quality and spam. Moreover those pages are not working...I mean the pages which are sending backlinks to us.
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  • Profile picture of the author expmrb
    Yes, you should disavow them.
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  • Profile picture of the author KylieSweet
    Google will only ignore those unwanted links in your website page so it will not affect your rankings nor your reputation.
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  • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
    A one-line entry can disavow every page of the domain that is linking to that page. That said, It is not hurting the ranking of the rest of your pages.
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    • Profile picture of the author expmrb
      Originally Posted by dave_hermansen View Post

      A one-line entry can disavow every page of the domain that is linking to that page. That said, It is not hurting the ranking of the rest of your pages.

      Last month I disavowed 1452 links just by writing one sentence because they were all from the same domain.
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  • Profile picture of the author Skywriting
    Change the wording on the policy page.
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    • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
      Originally Posted by Skywriting View Post

      Change the wording on the policy page.
      How is that going to do anything to affect the "millions" of links pointing to the Privacy page?
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  • Profile picture of the author Skywriting
    Originally Posted by michealtech View Post

    Our homepage ranking dropped and I suspect this is the culprit. Google might be considering this is the important page being linked on top with anchor text. Shall I Disavow these sites and will this makes Google stop counting links, and the anchor text coming from these sites as well?
    The drop in rankings is very likely unrelated to your privacy page.
    Each page is ranked individually.

    Google has a vested interest in changing the SERPs because people
    people like unpredictable but familiar changes in the results.
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