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A nice domain with spammy backlinks, what should I do?
Hi , I bought a domain from expired domain with over 50K backlinks, at first I got greedy after seeing it and instantly started setting up a website and branding it (it was an amazing brand name), but after checking those baclinks,and with no suprise it turned out to be mostly spammy backlinks, from my knowledge after changing domain registar and compant etc… that resets the domain right ? Also after checking none of the links points to the home page , so should I keep working on the site to rank it like I usually do or I’m just waisting my time, I think it has a lot of potential as a brand except the spamy links part!
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I would recommend you to skip this domain.
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Set up google search console to see if there are any penalties against it. If so, just move on and count it as a loss, otherwise, just disavow the spammy ones.
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Changing registrar doesn’t reset anything. At least, there is no definitive proof that it does.
Did you set it up in Search Console to see if there are any manual actions against the domain?
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50k spammy backlinks really doesn’t matter. Ive had competitors and hackers send 50k spam links to my site and it did nothing.
what will give you a penalty if it the site was ever used as a link farm or spam or something like that.
When I buy a risky domain like that, what I do is set it up, add maybe 20 posts on content targeting easy keywords, then I see if my posts reach top 50 in a few weeks. If they dont, then the site probably has some kind of penalty.
But you should know that an aged quality website with quality content, that has never hosted spam on it, can receive any amount (tens of thousands) of spam links with literally 0 effect. Otherwise it’d be easy to destroy your competition.
Though you have to ask yourself. why does it have spammy links and why did the spammer let it expire? probably cause it’s a dead domain that he already milked.
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Website owners and SEO professionals go to great lengths to get their sites ranked on the first page of Google and other search engines.
But unfortunately, unscrupulous competitors are not above launching negative SEO attacks against top-ranking websites. These attacks are not as dangerous as they used to be but done properly, they can still have negative – and lasting – consequences to a site’s organic rank.
Negative SEO can take many forms but it’s usually a combination of the following tactics:
* Building spammy backlinks to your domain
* Removing your quality backlinks
* Website hackingThe process of removing bad backlinks is relatively simple, if time-consuming:
* Understand what makes a backlink ‘toxic’
* Use a tool to identify all bad links pointing to your website
* Contact the webmaster and request removal
* Create and submit a ‘disavow’ file to Google to ignore those links.1. Types of Link Spam You Want to Avoid.
2. Find Where Those Toxic Links Are Coming From.
3. Request Removal from Website.
4. Create and Submit a Disavow File to Google.
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