How to identify spammy backlinks?

Cobaki

11 years ago

Where are these backlinks coming from?
Forums or somebody else's blogs?

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Lokahi

11 years ago

Did you hire someone to do backlinking on your behalf? Or, could the backlinks be part of an effort by your competitor to sabotage your site? Anyway, you should check Google webmaster tools for notices of spammy backlinks and then start disavowing as many spammy links as possible. Do all this before your site incurs a penalty for bad backlinks.

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online only

11 years ago

I might sound too harsh, but...

Profile links = spam
Profile signature links = spam
Lots of blog comments on irrelevant pages = spam
Article directories = spam
Guest posts on irrelevant + overly abused sites = spam
Directory links = spam (unless it's human edited directory on a high PR page with somesort of traffic)
Someone elses private network = spam (unless it looks like a real site)
Web 2.0 = spam (unless you have built out a real website from it)
Fiverr gigs = spam
Social bookmarks = spam (if the site has no PR or traffic whatsoever)

I'm sure I missed something since people always come up with new strategies to temporarily fool Google, but yeah. I'm not saying those links above doesn't work at all, I just can't see anything long-term in it.

2 cents...

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andishm

11 years ago

Originally Posted by online only

I might sound too harsh, but...

Profile links = spam
Profile signature links = spam
Lots of blog comments on irrelevant pages = spam
Article directories = spam
Guest posts on irrelevant + overly abused sites = spam
Directory links = spam (unless it's human edited directory on a high PR page with somesort of traffic)
Someone elses private network = spam (unless it looks like a real site)
Web 2.0 = spam (unless you have built out a real website from it)
Fiverr gigs = spam
Social bookmarks = spam (if the site has no PR or traffic whatsoever)

I'm sure I missed something since people always come up with new strategies to temporarily fool Google, but yeah. I'm not saying those links above doesn't work at all, I just can't see anything long-term in it.

2 cents...

It seems in short you want to say anything other than quality guest posting or viewer's given backlink... all kind of backlinks are spam in your view is this?

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online only 11 years ago

Originally Posted by andishm

It seems in short you want to say anything other than quality guest posting or viewer's given backlink... all kind of backlinks are spam in your view is this?

In short, yes.

But, if you do proper e-mailing/outreaching you can get plenty of links per day which are more or less "editorial" in google eyes.
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ksummers

11 years ago

If you're looking to categorize spammy links in order to determine which ones to remove/disavow then look for:
-Low PR
-high outbound links
-adult/warez sites
-very high alexa rank

Use these together with online only's list and you'll probably find more to remove than keep but it'll be worth it.

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bermuda

11 years ago

If you remove tons of links manually and nothing happens to your web ranks on Google, then they have been spam links with no impact on your overall rankings whatsoever. If you delete one authority link, your ranking could drop so quickly. It is also a notion that too many links from the same website could be spam. For example, if you have commented on a high quality, relevant blog, there is no need to keep posting dozens of replies on that same portal because the rest of them could be almost always useless.

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spychandan28

11 years ago

To determine the quality of in bound link, there are a few metrics we look at.
1 The quality of the back link to that website.
2 where the link is and context.
3 the relationship of website linking to you and your website.
the quality of an inbound link

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shakil58

11 years ago

just use google webmaster crawl tools. you can find spam links from here.

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FanaticalSuggestion302

11 years ago

is it really possible to check spammy links, will it affect ranking ?

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SeoKnightsInc

11 years ago

IMO you can hardly do anything to make things right by identifying spammy links. Disavow tool is waste of time and it will take you ages to contact the owners and have them remove the links for you. A good thing you can do is to start creating good links (your own network preferably) and try to outdo your bad profile by good number of links.

However the best thing you can do is forget your old site, start with fresh one and have a completely awesome link profile.

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risahe

11 years ago

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robinmymbd 11 years ago

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A S M

11 years ago

Obviously you hired someone else to do the backlinks for you right ? or is there another reason your asking?

You can just go to majesticseo and see your links after searching for you site. Make sure they have good Citation and Trust flow metrics .. and that its not a spam fest of the same anchor text ..... there's more to it, but just look out for these first

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schgrv

11 years ago

you can use tools to analyze your back-links. I'll suggest you Link Research Tool. It will classify your links into toxic, suspicious and healthy link. Not only that it will even give every minute details about each and every links of yours. Its a paid one but its worthy to spend.

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