Identifying Bad Google Backlinks

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Exactly how do you tell if a backlink to your site is bad or good? Should you check it's alexa ranking? How many OBL the page has? Page rank? what? Google doesn't tell you this. I've seen some paid services that say they can do it. Can they?

Any help would be appreciated.
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  • I think no body would 100% know how Google algorithm works, sorry.
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    • Of course nobody will know that, but it may be a way to tell if certain backlinks are "bad" or not... maybe the website's page rank or something
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  • It is more going to be a situation where you have many bad ones. A few bad ones is not a big deal. If you have a bunch of bad ones, consider manually going through and disavowing those that are visibly bad. They are visibly bad because there is a mess of other unrelated links.
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    • I purchased a fiverr backlink gig and it increased my traffic 500%. however my alexa global rank upped a few millions. so far alexa says I've got 44 backlinks, should I remove the links from unrelated niches?
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  • There's no hard and fast way to check.

    But considering you got them from Fiverr, I'd say they're bad.

    Remember what links are GOOD: contextual links from relevant authority sites. Anything else is either pretty good, just OK or bad.
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    • You would be surprised some of the gems you can find on Fiverr.

      I like to use SEOmoz metrics: Domain authority, Page Authority. I also look at amount of OBLs, does the site get traffic, is it obviously built for SEO?

      Here is a good tool that makes it easier for you:

      Link Risk Management for your Toxic Links - Link Detox
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    Identifying Bad Google Backlinks

    Exactly how do you tell if a backlink to your site is bad or good? Should you check it's alexa ranking? How many OBL the page has? Page rank? what? Google doesn't tell you this. I've seen some paid services that say they can do it. Can they? Any help would be appreciated.