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Using Backlinks as a weapon?

by Eric Pacheco
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I signed up for backlinking report website and noticed that someone is creating XXX backlinks to my website...

What are you guys interpretation on this?

Is it harmful to your website?

How can you really defend against this?


-Eric Pacheco
#backlinks #weapon
  • Profile picture of the author RayW
    Don't worry about it, Google will never hurt your site's rankings because of low-quality backlinks; at most, it will just discredit them.
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    • Profile picture of the author bfas
      Originally Posted by Ray Wynn View Post

      Don't worry about it, Google will never hurt your site's rankings because of low-quality backlinks; at most, it will just discredit them.
      This is simply not true. Be careful making statements out of opinion or hearsay.

      With the Panda updates, you absolutely can be hurt by 'bad' link profiles. Even before Panda, Google can and does penalize for certain paid links. If someone wanted to, they could buy 'bad' paid links to you.

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      • Profile picture of the author RayW
        Originally Posted by bfas View Post

        This is simply not true. Be careful making statements out of opinion or hearsay.

        With the Panda updates, you absolutely can be hurt by 'bad' link profiles. Even before Panda, Google can and does penalize for certain paid links. If someone wanted to, they could buy 'bad' paid links to you.

        Michael
        So I can get to the top of SERPs by blasting all my competitors with bad links? Really? You really think that would work?
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        • Profile picture of the author faceblogger
          Originally Posted by Ray Wynn View Post

          So I can get to the top of SERPs by blasting all my competitors with bad links? Really? You really think that would work?
          You can try though with at least little success. However, this is less effective than spending that effort on improving your site. That's why the people at higher skill level of SEO never tries in that way.
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  • Profile picture of the author scraig
    Not something to worry about. If it was everyone's competitors would be would be shooting back links at each other.
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  • Profile picture of the author officer_iron
    Links can and do affect the rankings, regardless of who creates the backlinks. That's why when you're doing your own SEO, you still have to be careful when creating your backlinks. The same tactics that you avoid when doing your own SEO are things that can penalize you, and it doesn't matter if it's done by you or by someone else.
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  • Profile picture of the author babymalo78
    Google punishing links from link factory, paid links and other harmful keyword stuffing sites, be careful of this kind of website
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  • Profile picture of the author wotblogger2
    These kind of links are harmful for your site. Watch out for them.
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  • Profile picture of the author prcys
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    Originally Posted by Eric Pacheco View Post

    I signed up for backlinking report website and noticed that someone is creating XXX backlinks to my website...

    What are you guys interpretation on this?

    Is it harmful to your website?

    How can you really defend against this?


    -Eric Pacheco
    If you do not work of the link building for your site and if someone else done this then this means that someone else is doing the illegal seo for your site. As have you heard about the reverse seo?
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  • Profile picture of the author awj888
    if you have found the sites which contain these links yo ucan contact the admin and see how they got there - also, ask for them to remove them. cant think of any webmaster who wouldnt mind less outbound links on their site TBO!

    also a couple of bad links isnt geoing to ruin a site- so long as you are building more, and more quality
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