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Identifying Bad Google Backlinks

by GGurls
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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.
#backlinks #bad #google #identifying
  • Profile picture of the author Mr Lim
    I think no body would 100% know how Google algorithm works, sorry.
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    • Profile picture of the author GGurls
      Originally Posted by Mr Lim View Post

      I think no body would 100% know how Google algorithm works, sorry.
      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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      • Profile picture of the author KitschWitch
        Backlinks should ideally look 'natural'.
        • the date created should be in a natural pattern, not a whole heap on one day or one week and then nothing for ages
        • anchor text should vary, not the same keywords all the time, and some should be keyword free such as "this link" or "here"
        You get more value for backlinks on a site with high PR, as well as .gov and .edu sites.

        The pages linked to in your site should vary.

        The backlinks should mostly be on sites relevant to the topic topic, i.e. topics on the linking page that are related to the keywords of the linked page.

        Bad links:
        • those on link farms
        • reciprocal links
        • paid links
        Sometimes Google can work these out, sometimes not. They are getting better at it all the time and will continue to hunt down links they think are bought or not natural.
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        • Profile picture of the author PerformanceMan
          Originally Posted by KitschWitch View Post

          Backlinks should ideally look 'natural'.
          • the date created should be in a natural pattern, not a whole heap on one day or one week and then nothing for ages
          • anchor text should vary, not the same keywords all the time, and some should be keyword free such as "this link" or "here"
          Why? Why exactly would links 'be built' in a 'natural pattern.' That makes no sense. In the real, natural world links would come into a page at whatever pace they came it at. There is no pattern.

          Anchor text that says "here" will strengthen the target page for the word 'here.' How is that a benefit?
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  • Profile picture of the author dvduval
    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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    • Profile picture of the author Bri777
      Originally Posted by dvduval View Post

      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.
      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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  • Profile picture of the author Backlinko
    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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    • Profile picture of the author stodog77
      Originally Posted by Backlinko View Post

      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.
      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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      • Profile picture of the author SEOSEOSEO
        Link Detox Risk just identifies links as far as I can see (there are already free tools that do this). To kill any bad links (from scraping your content for example) you would still have to submit a disavow, block via referer in .htaccess etc...
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      • Profile picture of the author Backlinko
        Originally Posted by stodog77 View Post

        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
        Trust me, I know Fiverr:


        I know there are some gems on there. But 99% of the SEO gigs are awful link pyramid nonsense.
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        • Profile picture of the author paulgl
          ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!! Here's one way:

          You see them advertised on fiverr

          The only natural backlink is from linkbait.

          The lot of you would just stop backlinking,
          cuz you seem to have ignored everything worth
          a dang here on backlinking. Sure, the other 99.9999%
          is what people do...sadly.

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