Ordered a Fiverr gig and got bad articles - Should I get backlinks removed?

by WebJen
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Sorry to re-post this question on a new thread, but I need advice. I am worried about the effects these bad article backlinks will have on my site.

I ordered a fiverr linkwheel gig and received it today and all the articles written are on unrelated blogs/web 2.0 and the articles were horrible. They made no sense at all and had so many grammatical errors that I would be embarrassed to be associated with them. I want my backlinks removed asap so these don't harm my site.

The fiverr person said that the articles were not made for humans, but for search engines, which I don't want. I did not know this going in. What should I do? Ask again to have the backlinks removed? Or just leave it alone and continue to add my only backlinks gradually?

Thanks for any advice you have
#articles #backlinks #bad #fiverr #gig #ordered #removed
  • Profile picture of the author MikeWike
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    • Profile picture of the author WebJen
      Originally Posted by MikeWike View Post

      You get what you pay for (5 bucks). I wouldn't care about the backlinks and the articles, they don't have much value on your SEO anyway. Leave them alone and continue your own backlinking strategy.
      As long as they will not cause harm, then I'll just leave them be.
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  • Profile picture of the author ang0160
    No dont remove them, think about it. If EVERY backlink to your site was perfect then surely the mighty google would think this un-natural. A good varied amount of backlinks is great.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Personally, I would try to have them removed, with no hesitation at all about it.

      I wouldn't think there'll be any "positively adverse" SEO effects from them (and Google's obviously well aware that people can't control which other sites might link to them anyway), but I wouldn't want anyone looking up my backlinks on a backlink checker, finding them, and deducing that I'd done "that sort of SEO". But that's just me ...
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  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    It sounds like you got a link wheel that was, well, worth $5... :p
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  • Profile picture of the author FlashMatrix
    Although fiverr is a good place for resourcing, you still get what you pay for, I have a gig running on fiver myself and I always try to give more than a fivers worth but when people ask me to do a job that is 100 dollars worth, I simply refuse unless they are willing to pay for the extra gigs, another thing to keep in mind is that most of the people on fiver are not native english speakers...
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  • Profile picture of the author WebJen
    Thanks everyone. I am not quite as worried now about it now.
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  • Profile picture of the author StunningWarrior
    Originally Posted by jenjen1018 View Post

    Sorry to re-post this question on a new thread, but I need advice. I am worried about the effects these bad article backlinks will have on my site.
    If you could negatively affect a website by pointing bad backlinks at it they'd be a little industry in doing exactly this to destroy competitors. So long as the outbound links from your site don't go to the wrong places you are absolutely fine.
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  • Profile picture of the author eshapard
    I'd only remove them if they had my name on them. I wouldn't want someone googling me and finding a crappy page like that. That actually happened to me when someone spun an article I wrote, did a really bad job, and left my name attached to it.
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  • Profile picture of the author ThatAblaze
    Half of those low quality links will probably be removed by the site owners within a month without you needing to do anything. The ones that aren't removed will fall so far down in the SERPS that someone would have to dig through 20 pages of links to find them.

    No one will ever associate one half broken link wheel with you're actual site, I guarantee it. If (and I must stress the IF here) anyone ever sees them a week or more from now they will just think you have attracted the attention of some illiterate slob.

    A dozen poorly done articles won't get you deindexed. It would take hundreds or thousands of links to attract a slap. Just don't order the gig again.
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  • Profile picture of the author cool25
    if that condition,i will tell that worker to remove that immediately,why? because soon google can read your nonsense articles and definetely hurt your site ranking with panda system..
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  • Profile picture of the author WebJen
    I feel bad, but I had to be the first to leave negative feedback for the seller.
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  • Profile picture of the author patco
    Leave them. Have anything "negative" is good for your website, so G will find that you have some "BAD" backlinks and this will look more natural
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    • Profile picture of the author WebJen
      Originally Posted by patco View Post

      Leave them. Have anything "negative" is good for your website, so G will find that you have some "BAD" backlinks and this will look more natural
      That sounds good. The person offered to do it again for me with my own articles, posted on the same blogs with different usernames. Should I go for it?
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  • Profile picture of the author HKSEO Rotzee
    Count it as IP diversity, learn your lesson and move on =)
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Fiverr is like a strip club.

    You'll keep handing out fives all night until your wallet is empty, then you leave thinking too yourself "What the hell just happened"?

    Live & learn...
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  • Profile picture of the author gearmonkey
    If it had an adverse effect, then anyone could buy gigs like this for their competitors. Fortunately, this won't harm your website.
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  • Profile picture of the author st0necol
    Yep learn the lesson, we have all made such mistakes.......I made a similar mistake as well once which had adverse effects on my SERPs but I quickly realized what I did was wrong and focused on building good backlinks again, gradually my SERPs started getting better and returned to where they were.

    But I would definitely be concerned if any of those articles were on sites which attract a huge amount of traffic, as it could hurt your reputation.
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  • Profile picture of the author WebJen
    Thanks, so should I take the sellers offer to re-post 9 new articles on the same sites, that I provide?
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  • Profile picture of the author st0necol
    If he's going to replace those articles with your good articles then I would say, go for it.
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  • Profile picture of the author NaturalBaby
    Can you link us to the gig that gave bad links?
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