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Site got hit by spammy links - so how can google penalize spammy links?

by Rebel24
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Cliffs are- my site got hit by a spike of spammy links

Initially was very worried

But now it gets me thinking - hey- anyone can to do this to anyone else (their competitors)
So could google REALLY significantly penalize a company for this?

Also in the same way, couldn't someone set up another site with paid links then report them to google?

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I am aware of the disavow took and trying to remove the links- along with letting google know if what's going on- but are these the only solutions? (And I've heard disavow tool is not that effective anyway)
#google #hit #links #penalize #site #spammy
  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    If it really worked the way people claim, everybody and
    their brother would be doing it. But they're not.

    People mix up cause and effect a lot.

    The sites that even would be at least "vulnerable" to
    this idea would be junk sites to begin with. The people that
    complain have built nothing behind their sites except junk.
    Although these people swear their sites are just the $#@!s.

    A well established site, PR, authority, would not be hit in the least.
    Google pretty much tells you this. That if you do good things, all
    the time, it will outweigh any bad stuff people try.

    What would it serve google? To take down well trusted sites on some
    whim? Hardly. Google is not that stupid. Yes, I know. Every
    clown that can buy a domain and install WP thinks their site
    belongs #1 for so many lame reasons.

    Better minds have disagreed, last sentence notwithstanding.

    Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author agapril07
    Wait you have outbound links that are spammy and your worried about it? relax.. you're going to be fine.
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  • Profile picture of the author C Rebecca
    This is certainly not possible... I have watched a video of Matt Cutts stating that Google discount such links and won’t hurt the website ranking in a negative way.
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  • Profile picture of the author Icematikx
    I sort of disagree here with what's been said. I have a friend who launched an amazon site in a competitive niche. Upon getting first, he was spammed by 200,000 links from 23,000 referring domains for the exact match keyword. 3-weeks later he was penalized and dropped out of the SERPS.

    It does still work, and I think Google does have to take action at some point. Even if it isn't the webmaster's fault, they still have "inflated" rankings due to another webmaster. I'm not sure if the disavow tool works well, but it's there so use it.
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