question on unwanted backlinks

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hi- I know who wouldn't want any and all links, bear with me. Just looking at my web urchin stats and saw a couple of visits linking from the domain 'black hat x.com' - checked it out and its clearly on the dark side content.

Another domain I had some concern about is 'smazat.ru' -which I'm guessing might be some sort of spam operation.
My questions:
1. Can I be penalized for 'evil' inbound links even though I certainly didn't ask for them?
2. Any way known to get rid of such links
and 3. Anybody have any familiarity with these domains or any thoughts on them?

Thanks, maybe not the usual type question here..
#search engine optimization #backlinks #question #unwanted
  • I believe you can use .robots to tell the search engines you dont want a page to be in the search engine
  • Stop worrying so much about the links going to your site. Unless you are getting tons of porn links and other links to your site, you don't have anything to worry about.

    If you are really concerned about these links, just keep building links to your site. If you have 999,999 great links to your site, and 1 bad link, do you really think you are going to get penalized by that one bad link?

    If it was really that easy to hurt your competitors, we could just go out and spam porn links to our competitor's sites to get ahead.

    Just keep building links, and most of the time you should be fine.
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    • Ya cheers Kevin- I'm not enormously concerned- just started to notice it and figured I'd ask the question ..
    • You say you shouldn't worry UNLESS you're getting tons of porn links to a site, well guess what, that's EXACTLY what has happened to one of mine.

      It was ranking #3 for about 2 months, and about 2 weeks ago it suddenly dropped to #7. After checking my sites backlinks through yahoo site explorer, I noticed 100s more inlinks than usual, and you guessed it, there were HUNDREDS of spammy porn links pointing to my blog.

      I guess one of my competitors did this to hurt my rankings, and it worked, so much for no backlink is bad!

      Jon
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  • I completely agree with Kevin and I would just continue to build links. Most links are good even if they come from a site you may not like all that much. If you are really concerned you can contact the webmaster for those sites and ask them to remove your link.

    Benjamin Ehinger
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    • Will do Benjamin- thanks.
      Again. not massively concerned, but since its new stuff I sought feedback right away- I'd hate to lose ranking by not asking a question..
  • Google always consider top ranking for sites which pointing of links if affected by in search engine or getting down in your previous ranking then you need remove that types of link by Google disavow tool.after this request you will able to make your website re-considerable.
  • Bad links are built by your competitors and you don't have any control on this...

    What you can do is you can continue working with white hat method...if your site has good number of good links and a few bad links then it is not going to harm too much.

    However, thinking this, Google has provided disavow as solution to this, you may use it as well. You can also request the website owners where your link is placed to remove that..
  • Yes, you can get penalized for every activity with bad links that includes your site even if it's not your fault.
    The best you can start with is analyzing your backlinks and find out which of them might harm you and after that simply disavow them.
    I would recommend you to try our free trial which affords you to remove 1000 bad links right now: http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...inks-free.html
  • Still I'd use disavow tool. Though I agree if there's just a couple of those links, there isn't much to worry about.
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    question on unwanted backlinks

    hi- I know who wouldn't want any and all links, bear with me. Just looking at my web urchin stats and saw a couple of visits linking from the domain 'black hat x.com' - checked it out and its clearly on the dark side content. Another domain I had some concern about is 'smazat.ru' -which I'm guessing might be some sort of spam operation.