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Getting Rid of Unwanted Backlinks

by TheProgrammer
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It used to be that sites linking to yours couldn’t harm you. Then along came Google’s Penguin Update.

Now for many websites (and a lot of business models that involve selling 50,000 links for $10) the sky is falling. Websites that have built an unnatural looking backlink profile using a strategy of aggressive exact match anchor text usage are setting off Google’s spam alarm.

So what now? Well, there’s really no way around a good old-fashioned backlink audit. You can pay somebody to sort through them and identify the worst offenders, or you can do it yourself.

If you decide to go it alone, the first challenge is answering what are bad links? On the upside, they usually aren’t too hard to find.

Now that Yahoo’s Site Explorer has gone the way of Google supplemental results, if you want really good backlink data there’s probably going to be a cost involved in even doing your own link excavation. A few tools offer some free info but require a payment for the really deep data.

If you've been hit by Google Penguin or an unnatural links penalty, you’re gonna want to....
Continued at: http://searchenginewatch.com/article...nted-Backlinks

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