Someone spamming my BACKLINK profile. What to do?

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I checked from Ahrefs, it showing this This Ahrefs Screenshot Containing Anchor text like Sex and all.

My Site niche is : TECH. I Suspect my competitors are doing so.


But in Google Webmaster's its showing 1500 backlinks Google Webmaster Screenshot as compared to 7000 in Ahrefs.


Please help, I cannot find spam link in Webmaster so that I can DISVOW them.
#backlink #profile #spamming
  • Profile picture of the author Ryan3
    well i mean as long as their not spamming it as your keyword you got lucky. Disavowing actually takes along time to work, so what i would do is spam your site with generic anchor texts to "level it out" and try to continue building high pr links
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  • Profile picture of the author Broseph
    That's a negative SEO attack. You need to get those backlinks removed. Google recommends that you should first mail the webmasters and ask them to remove the links. Then, you can use the disavow tool on the the links that weren't removed.

    The backlinks don't have to be in your Webmaster Tools so you can disavow them. It's usually recommended that you use 2-3 tools when conducting a link building audit.

    Here's a post that will help you more - https://dofollowlists.com/negative-s...event-recover/
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  • Profile picture of the author online only
    I've been getting hit by negative SEO alot lately. So far my rankings haven't been shifting much...

    I usually try to scrape all the links that I've received via ahrefs, OSE, GWT and Majestic SEO. Just find someone who has access to all those tools, so he/she could give you full report. It usually costs around $300-$500.

    Then, try to remove those links via outreach. You can either use buzzstream or removeem - both work well.

    If they don't get removed in 7 days, I'll just add them into disavow tool (DOMAINS only) and move on.

    There's not much you can do, but I believe Google is getting smarter and smarter in detecting spam links, so you shouldn't really worry about it.

    Keep building quality links - they'll overweight those spam links.

    I know it's a shitty feeling, but there's really not much you can do. Disavow tool will be your friend.
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  • Profile picture of the author promo87
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    Originally Posted by Claudio Johnson View Post

    I checked from Ahrefs, it showing this This Ahrefs Screenshot Containing Anchor text like Sex and all.

    My Site niche is : TECH. I Suspect my competitors are doing so.


    But in Google Webmaster's its showing 1500 backlinks Google Webmaster Screenshot as compared to 7000 in Ahrefs.


    Please help, I cannot find spam link in Webmaster so that I can DISVOW them.
    Well, i don't think you can do anything more about it rather than using the disavow tool to disavow the spammy link, what I am pretty much sure it this might be the step of competitor who is trying to take you down and rank themselves up over the SERPs I think this is a good time to have a look at your backlinks profile and start sneaking on your competitors move !
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  • Profile picture of the author Claudio Johnson
    Should I buy Ahref and then get report. Then DISVOW them? Because I see it increasing at a tremnedous amount
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  • Profile picture of the author dgui123451
    Ahref probably shows you the backlinks that actually affect your website's PR rank.
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  • Profile picture of the author ankushkohli
    You should buy Ahref/Majestic SEO today & start finding your bad links today. Believe it or not negative SEO works. If someone is doing negative seo for your site to drop the rankings so should atleast defend if not attack by removing spam links.

    All the best!
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  • Profile picture of the author smiles8103
    If your site has a higher authority, and is trusted by Google, then negative SEO shouldn't drop your rankings.

    I really can't stand losers that do this crap. They are scared of competition, so instead of working on their own site, they spam yours....

    Google's Disavow Tool normally takes 2-4 weeks to work, but if you want an easier way to disavow, you can try this: https://monitorbacklinks.com/ or you can monitor links with Internet Marketing Software: SEO, PPC, Social - Raven as well.

    Did you receive an un-natural message in Web master Tools (so a manual penalty) from Google?

    Check out this article on how to use monitorbacklinks

    Build positive natural links to your site, and continue to focus on making it an authority site.

    This is what you might call a little bump in the road, but you will be ok. Trust me! Good luck!



    Originally Posted by Claudio Johnson View Post

    I checked from Ahrefs, it showing this This Ahrefs Screenshot Containing Anchor text like Sex and all.

    My Site niche is : TECH. I Suspect my competitors are doing so.


    But in Google Webmaster's its showing 1500 backlinks Google Webmaster Screenshot as compared to 7000 in Ahrefs.


    Please help, I cannot find spam link in Webmaster so that I can DISVOW them.
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO Power
    The biggest issue with negative SEO is getting the bad links removed. Links created with automated tools are difficult to get rid of. The best thing you can do now is disavow the bad links and wait to see what effect it will have. Btw, are your rankings dropping yet?

    Additionally, keep building high quality backlinks to offset the negative link juice. If you have a pretty authoritative site, you need not worry much about such attacks :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author mariajhons
    Find all those anchors and links from Ahrefs and then report the Google that these are spams links which I actually not done.
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