How do you know if your backlinks are bad?

10 years ago

1. No, how can a tool tell about it ?
2. If the links are coming from sites that are irrelvant to your niche. Generally PORN, CASINO are considered bad.
3. Low Domain Authority and PAGE AUTHORITY links are also considered bad.

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MikeFriedman

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Claudio Johnson

3. Low Domain Authority and PAGE AUTHORITY links are also considered bad.

That is not true at all. DA and PA have NOTHING to do with determining if a link is bad or not.

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Djman77

10 years ago

So please do tell? How do you know if you're back links are bad?

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LiveFromCloud 10 years ago

Originally Posted by Djman77

So please do tell? How do you know if you're back links are bad?

If anchor text is Porn, gambling, farma related it's bad.
If website from which you got link is pure spam it's bad.
If website completely unrelated (for example in Chinese language) it's bad.
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Mike Anthony 10 years ago

Originally Posted by Djman77

So please do tell? How do you know if you're back links are bad?

If you placed them yourself for free and they appeared immediately they are probably bad that and

what was said already

If anchor text is Porn, gambling, farma related it's bad.
If website from which you got link is pure spam it's bad.

I don't agree with foreign language sites being bad - depends
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MikeFriedman

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Djman77

So please do tell? How do you know if you're back links are bad?

Is the site/page your link is on unrelated to your site?
Are there a bunch of links on the page out to other sites without good reason?
Is the link in the form of a blog comment?
Is the link on an article directory?
Is the link a profile link?
Is the link on an auto-approve directory full of crap?
Did you buy the links from Fiverr or the WSO section here?

If you can answer 'Yes' to any of those, it is probably a bad link.

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kiddoman

10 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

Is the site/page your link is on unrelated to your site?
Are there a bunch of links on the page out to other sites without good reason?
Is the link in the form of a blog comment?
Is the link on an article directory?
Is the link a profile link?
Is the link on an auto-approve directory full of crap?
Did you buy the links from Fiverr or the WSO section here?

If you can answer 'Yes' to any of those, it is probably a bad link.

I don't think profile link is bad link. Actually this kind of link is good for SEO unless the site has low page/domain authority.

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JohnnyPlan

10 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

Is the site/page your link is on unrelated to your site?
Are there a bunch of links on the page out to other sites without good reason?
Is the link in the form of a blog comment?
Is the link on an article directory?
Is the link a profile link?
Is the link on an auto-approve directory full of crap?
Did you buy the links from Fiverr or the WSO section here?

If you can answer 'Yes' to any of those, it is probably a bad link.

And, this is the problem you run into when paying someone else to get backlinks for your site. You can't be sure they won't just mass spam thousands of sites with software. And, then you have a few months of clean up effort for the cheap links.

Also there isn't any software that could automatically detect if a site belongs to any of those categories you listed. Only manual visual inspection would work.

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biznics

10 years ago

Possible bad backlinks may inlcude:

1. Too many exact match anchor texts
2. Links from irrelevant sites
3. Links from low profile directories, bookmarking sites, PR sites
4. Links from other GTLD domains (if you are targeting USA, try to get backlinks from .com or .us domains and NOT from .com.au, .uk domains.)

There's a tool for checking toxic backlinks that has worked great for me, it's called Link Detox Tool.

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bijutoha

10 years ago

Originally Posted by biznics

Possible bad backlinks may inlcude:

1. Too many exact match anchor texts
2. Links from irrelevant sites
3. Links from low profile directories, bookmarking sites, PR sites
4. Links from other GTLD domains (if you are targeting USA, try to get backlinks from .com or .us domains and NOT from .com.au, .uk domains.)

There's a tool for checking toxic backlinks that has worked great for me, it's called Link Detox Tool.

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"anything spammed is a bad backlink"

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"My thought is that no link is bad its genuine or spam...."

Finally kiddoman and paulgl they have answered some useless thoughts

"I don't think profile link is bad link.
Actually this kind of link is good for SEO unless the site has low page/domain authority."

"How are porn and casino backlinks bad? I'd love a link from playboy.com, etc.
Porn sites have huge DA, PA, and PR. And why not? They are linked everywhere....

I think people mix stuff up all the time.

I've only seen google talk about spammed links in various forms.

Stop spamming. Done and done.

If low DA and PA are bad, man, nobody would ever create a new site..."

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MikeFriedman

10 years ago

Originally Posted by vishalesskay

Generally the backlinks with no follow tag are considered as bad links. But it is genuinely not matter the link is no follow or dofollow. The page rank and authority of a website are the most common factors to tell about the quality of a backlink. If your site has nofollow backlinks from a low quality site then it is a bad link. Just remove those backlinks immediately.

nofollow does not indicate that a link is bad.

Originally Posted by kiddoman

I don't think profile link is bad link. Actually this kind of link is good for SEO unless the site has low page/domain authority.

Profile links were one of the first type of links Google targeted heavily. The year before Penguin was released, the first batch of "unnatural link" notices went out to webmasters. These notices were largely attributed to profile links. Those who did not clean up their mess were later hit by Penguin when it was unleashed.

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mariolawatu 10 years ago

Is angela backlink considered as bad link as well??
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- MikeFriedman 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by mariolawatu
  
  Is angela backlink considered as bad link as well??
  
  Yes. They have been bad for years. Angela's links are nothing more than PR n/a profile links, despite anything else she might claim about them.
  
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richmann

10 years ago

Originally Posted by biznics

Possible bad backlinks may inlcude:

1. Too many exact match anchor texts
2. Links from irrelevant sites
3. Links from low profile directories, bookmarking sites, PR sites
4. Links from other GTLD domains (if you are targeting USA, try to get backlinks from .com or .us domains and NOT from .com.au, .uk domains.)

There's a tool for checking toxic backlinks that has worked great for me, it's called Link Detox Tool.

Enjoy...

Just checked out Link Detox Tool, it's a bit expensive for me for now. Is there any cheaper alternative out there?

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biznics 10 years ago

Originally Posted by richmann

Just checked out Link Detox Tool, it's a bit expensive for me for now. Is there any cheaper alternative out there?

No mate, as far as I know, this is the best tool out there and it even helped us in recovering one of our client site from manual Google penalty in first attempt.
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paulgl

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Claudio Johnson

1. No, how can a tool tell about it ?
2. If the links are coming from sites that are irrelvant to your niche. Generally PORN, CASINO are considered bad.
3. Low Domain Authority and PAGE AUTHORITY links are also considered bad.

How are porn and casino backlinks bad? I'd love a link from playboy.com, etc.
Porn sites have huge DA, PA, and PR. And why not? They are linked everywhere....

I think people mix stuff up all the time.

I've only seen google talk about spammed links in various forms.

Stop spamming. Done and done.

If low DA and PA are bad, man, nobody would ever create a new site...

Paul

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Allena Hall

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Claudio Johnson

1. No, how can a tool tell about it ?
2. If the links are coming from sites that are irrelvant to your niche. Generally PORN, CASINO are considered bad.
3. Low Domain Authority and PAGE AUTHORITY links are also considered bad.

I agree with this posy because there is no tool which shows your links are good or bad. You can only analyse backlink from what sites it comes by using majestic SEO or other like this.

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MikeFriedman 10 years ago

Pretty good example of bad backlinks...
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LiveFromCloud

10 years ago

It depends why you want to disavow links.
1) If you used some link building tool and you got penalized for it, just export links from that tool and disavow them.
2) If you got some negative SEO attack you'll need to use https://ahrefs.com.

Hope it helps

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high_plains_drifter

10 years ago

agree with Paul, anything spammed is a bad backlink

its pretty easy to tell what is a GOOD link so just concentrate on creating those.

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SEO Power

10 years ago

Link Detox (Link Detox - Ready for Penguin 3.0? Link Audit & Risk Management) is one such tool but it isn't free. By merely viewing a backlink, you should know if it is a good one or not. Bad links are links in bad neighborhoods, links placed through spammy methods such as mass profile and blog comments blasting, links placed within spun content, hidden links, etc.

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Muhammad sakil

10 years ago

What about Google webmaster...will it tell us about bad or spam backlinks!!!!!!!

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ketul 10 years ago

Originally Posted by Muhammad sakil

What about Google webmaster...will it tell us about bad or spam backlinks!!!!!!!

Google web master tool only show back link from domain wise and page wise. It is depend on you that open each back link and check manually by its relevancy and sites quality.
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vishalesskay

10 years ago

Generally the backlinks with no follow tag are considered as bad links. But it is genuinely not matter the link is no follow or dofollow. The page rank and authority of a website are the most common factors to tell about the quality of a backlink. If your site has nofollow backlinks from a low quality site then it is a bad link. Just remove those backlinks immediately.

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Dsdomination

10 years ago

You can check the metrics before using them. There are some known facts about using some type of free backlinks, so don't jump and use any kind.

Good Luck !

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Tim P

10 years ago

The links from bad sites is bad. The bad sites are sites with copy, crap content.

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Hemanth Malli

10 years ago

If you are having the links showing ads and some will give some other site and the site is not properly maintained and no strong content and the popups will come frequently those site you can avoid and they are badlinks

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HugeToms

10 years ago

My thought is that no link is bad its genuine or spam....

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Voxleaf

10 years ago

Many factors may cause the bad link so its totally depend upon you that how and where you are doing link building.........

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slideworld

10 years ago

If you have backlinks coming from Gambling sites or irrelevant sites are bad links . you can remove them by google disvow tool.

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Poly Hossain

10 years ago

Bad backlinks are as include:

1. backlinks obtained from doorway and cloaked pages
2. over optimized anchor text
3. links from irrelevant or different niche
4. article directory and content farms
5. low quality press releases
6.. buying and selling links
7. too much links from dofollow sources

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10 years ago

Follow webmasterworld. There's a lot here, but this is where it get discussed.

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netanel23

10 years ago

Linkdetox is a rip off, have you seen their pricing? Have you seen the reports they offer? Yuck. They've got one heck of a marketer on their team because I see the spam ads all over everywhere but the reports are terrible.

I find Google Penalty Recovery & Backlink Removal Service - LinkDelete.com does a better job at identifying bad links, and they also have a free tool to check your backlink data. Just put your domain in on the homepage and it does analysis for you for free. You only have a few lookups or your IP is blocked I think. My thinking is why would I pay for a backlink audit from Linkdetox that's worse and doesn't offer link cleanup? You know?

You can try and find the bad links yourself as well, it all starts with downloading backlink reports from all of the major backlink checkers such as majesticseo.com, ahrefs.com, moz's reports. You can also see a brief backlink report for free from Backlinks Checker Tool - Backlink Watch

At the end of it all though remember the worse the backlink profile, the more at risk your site is with the new penguin.

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MikeFriedman 10 years ago

Originally Posted by Poly Hossain

Bad backlinks are as include:

7. too much links from dofollow sources

That's not true. I have ranked plenty of sites with 100% dofollow links in their link profile.
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- Kevin Maguire 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by MikeFriedman
  
  That's not true. I have ranked plenty of sites with 100% dofollow links in their link profile.
  
  Obviously, Why on earth would you be trying to do it with no-follow..
  
  True story..the case study went a little like this.
  
  I have 1200 domains in my Senuke
  900 of them make no-follow links.
  
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  75% of the whole interwebs = No-Follow
  
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SkyJarman

10 years ago

Check out Alexa The free service doesn't tell you about the links but it will show you a list of your website links. Don't know if this would be the best tool but it is valuable in some circumstances.

In my opinion, Bad links are mass links.
Unattended links are also bad in my eyes.

When linking, I try too stay in the same content. I also keep book marks and record of every link and attend them once a month too update and keep active.

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LDTools

10 years ago

Backlinks that you can buy or get from SEO softwares are usually harmful for your SEO results. Worst case scenario, you can get banned or sandboxed by Google.

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austen

10 years ago

You can check in ahrefs.com,opensiteexplorer,majestic websites

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hirithk

10 years ago

Hi
We can check through back link checker, or another tool like ahrefs, where we can check weather the links are good or not, by these we can use disvaow tool and remove the links.

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ketul

10 years ago

Open each back link manually from back link checker tool and analysis on it like its PR, its relevancy, content etc. There are no any tool available that tell you which link is original and which is not.

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austen

10 years ago

Using disavow tool you can delete bad links.

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npoint

10 years ago

Truely, we have no control over it on which websites people placing the backlins (if we talking about people activity) so in my opinion it doesn`t not matter so much but under one condition it must be diversified a lot, so if all the backlinks pointed to your site will come from such poor websites it will be sign to google it`s not natural and it`s bad. But if you have full variety of backlinks sources I thing there is nothing to worry about.

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avowzone

Banned 10 years ago

If it's not your niche related, low page authority, no page rank it's bad backlink.

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freakyfre

10 years ago

I have a webmaster with 1400 directories and I have asked him to remove links which he will but for a large amount of money.I refused and now he is building 100's of links from his directories to my site so much that one exact match key woord is now nearly 40% of the links on the site. any ideas as to what I can do

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10 years ago

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symonrdl 10 years ago

Originally Posted by papu

We have no control over the blanks.

We may write a raport to Google from Google Webmater Tools and specify that you have a problem with backlinks.
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Web Choice UK

10 years ago

Monitor backlink can give you a basic idea on which links are good and which are toxic and needs attention. Maybe using monitor backlink can be helpful. But due to its extensive usage, free service is unavailable.
But i would recommend this tool, its of great help. It will highlight links that are hurting your sites ranking and also have a manual check before you disavow the link.

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Hemanth Malli

10 years ago

If you are getting ads from the sites which are irrelevent to your niche sites then you can consider those sites as bad, Rather than depending on the tools its better if you look over your backlinks manually.

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Poly Hossain

10 years ago

Identify bad backlinks
1. Backlinks obtained from Doorway Pages
2. Backlinks obtained from Cloaked Pages
3. Links obtained from over-optimized anchor text
4. Links from irrelevant or different niche
5. Low quality Press Releases (PR)
6. Buying and Selling Links
7. Too much links from Dofollow sources

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LuckyIMer

10 years ago

You can check whether a website back link is bad or not by checking the website factors, which include content quality, ranking, PR, Alexa, relevancy, etc.