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Once it’s gone is it burnt for good ?
Say I get a little a head of myself and pick up a couple sites with under 10 AR and during backlink investigation I uncover some decent links and then some spammy stuff.
Am I pretty much burnt or can I still make something of this ?
I read about asking the owner to remove (I doubt that's gonna happen if it's spammy) the links or adding it to a list on Google but is that enough ? I also read you can't add too many to the last list on Google as it will count against you.
Would I be better off relisting them after I somehow add more value ?
That's essentially what some people do right ? But domains add a little value and then sell.Thanks
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So, the SEO world is doing a great job at confusing “spammy links” for “Link Spam”. Great.
Its like “tax avoidance” (good, legal and recommended) vs “tax evations” which is the name for illegally avoiding paying taxes.
Link Spam is where the owner of the domain acquired, bought, rented, traded backlinks for authority.
Unrecongized backlinks are often called spammy, may come from broken CDNs, scraper sites, “background internet noise”.
Link Spam is purposefully set up to gain authority/PageRank. It doesn’t happen by accident.
There is no score or % or ratio. Any detected “Link Spam” – if Google has marked that domain or page, will count against the page its sent to – which could be your home page.
Link spam looks like a legit blog post with legit text with “And I bought this brother printer from best the printer review site ” and “printer review” is linked to your page “/my_best_printer_reviews” – that could be “natural” or if you asked, paid, swapped, did a favor, or otherwise looks like it violated the ToS, then its penalizable
# tl;dr
If you genuinely have no idea where the backlinks came from, just ignore it.
If you have more questions, post the links
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Don’t build links to pages that no one would rightfully link to. Get links from sites that are in the same niche and already have proven traffic.
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