Targeted by blackhat?

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At first I would like to say sorry for not posting on the right section. Looked for a help section but couldn't find one.So, posting on SEO section since my problem is about SEO.

I am just a student. I opened a new site for local visitors just as a loose hobby the site is . Posted like 18-20 unique articles my self and 7-8 articles. Made about 7-8 backlinks myself :confused: had about 18-19 natural backlinks after a month. Havn't checked for about 10-12 days

Just today decided to check google webmaster.

There were 841 backlinks to my site from usaid.gov . All of them to my homepage. They are all without anchor text.

I got no idea why would anyone target my so low quality site for black-hat. Whose competitor would I be ? I may opened site as hobby, still I want people to read it.

What should I do ? I didn't get a warning or anything from Google but surely will soon or they would just hammer it down without warning.

Should I only use Google disavow tool to exclude that domain from back links ?

or there are more ways to stop these annoying attacks in future ?
#search engine optimization #blackhat #targeted
  • if they have not anchor text but its just pure URL link you should be fine. Not easy to fake a .gov domain.
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    • Thanks for the helpful info
  • I agree, it does sound like you will be perfectly fine. If someone targeted you they would have done it a different way.
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    If you have 841 free links from a single domain that you don't own, it's most likely something like a sidebar/comment link that will fall off over time as new links on that sidebar/comment are created by other people.

    Been there, done that, no big deal...
  • You think getting 800+ links from a .gov site is blackhat?

    No, it's not. That's a good thing. We would do this all the time - we'd create useful tools online and then email the webmasters of .gov sites in hopes of them seeing our new resource and putting a link to it.

    It worked great and we generated tons of high quality links to our website because of this.

    Be thankful you got these .gov links - I'm sure you'll notice a nice bump in direct traffic because of them too.
  • The U.S. Agency for International Development domain is a PR8, and a gov at that. If you don't want the links, i'll take them
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    Targeted by blackhat?

    At first I would like to say sorry for not posting on the right section. Looked for a help section but couldn't find one.So, posting on SEO section since my problem is about SEO. I am just a student. I opened a new site for local visitors just as a loose hobby the site is . Posted like 18-20 unique articles my self and 7-8 articles. Made about 7-8 backlinks myself :confused: had about 18-19 natural backlinks after a month. Havn't checked for about 10-12 days