How to prevent Google Bowling - Interesting discussion in WMW
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I came across an interesting discussion in webmasterworld about how to prevent damage to a site by links from other sites. You can read more about the discussion here.
Tedster a long term member and webmaster world Administrator answers pretty well. I am very impressed with his answer and agree 100%.
Even if you block IP addresses or redirect pages, the links that point to your
website are still there, and they're on other sites that you can't control.
Those links will have whatever effect they have with Google's also.
There is
one thing that protects a website against Google Bowling - a solid backlink
profile of its own. The more your "real" quality backlinks grow, the less anyone
else's malicious actions can affect it.
Regardless of spam backlinks or now as tedster says a good backlink profile will automatically remove any bad PR received from bad links.
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If you can determine that the links contain malicious content ( Trojans Viruses ) you can request google remove them from their index. But the numbers are large.
Tedster - Even with thousands of backlinks, it is hard to fight a spambot posting hundreds of thousands of back links. Since the attack started a year ago we are down 7K visiters a day on the site I am referring to. The only good news is that there are very few ads on the site and it's not really a "money" site for us.
tedster is spot on correct. you should develop a healthy link profile.
if someone is trying to sabotage you (in my experience 95% of the time it is not deliberate sabotage) remember that all links are not equal. if you have established high quality and well trusted links you will be able to withstand a good amount of poor quality links.
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