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How do I remove bad backlinks?

colin007 Registered Users
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I have a website which was previously worked on by another SEO company, unfortunately they used link farms and very poor quality backlinks which I have just detected. Some of them have no PR, others are foreign IP's and others have no relevant anchor text etc.

What is the best way to get these backlinks removed? My research tells me poor quality backlinks can actually damage my off-site SEO campaign?

There are quite a few of these "bad" backlinks, do I really need to contact each site manually to request link be removed? Surely there is no guarantee they will even acknowledge my email or take action?

Thanks :O)
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  • fluq Registered Users
    were you using your own site url for the backlinks? or were you using your affiliate links?

    if it was your affiliate links, just talk with your network manager to kill those links.

    if it was your own site though. your best bet would be to get on google and remove your link.
    their new privacy option lets people to prevent bad links from being indexed.

    this is really helpful
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  • dragnhaze Registered Users
    fluq wrote: »
    were you using your own site url for the backlinks? or were you using your affiliate links?

    if it was your affiliate links, just talk with your network manager to kill those links.

    if it was your own site though. your best bet would be to get on google and remove your link.
    their new privacy option lets people to prevent bad links from being indexed.

    this is really helpful

    Could you elaborate more on where (what link you click on) on google to remove bad links?
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  • sbglobal79 Registered Users
    You can request to webmaster of website to remove urs links.
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  • LeonardVice Registered Users
    colin007 wrote: »
    I have a website which was previously worked on by another SEO company, unfortunately they used link farms and very poor quality backlinks which I have just detected. Some of them have no PR, others are foreign IP's and others have no relevant anchor text etc.

    What is the best way to get these backlinks removed? My research tells me poor quality backlinks can actually damage my off-site SEO campaign?

    There are quite a few of these "bad" backlinks, do I really need to contact each site manually to request link be removed? Surely there is no guarantee they will even acknowledge my email or take action?

    Thanks :O)

    If you want to remove those bad backlinks then you need to go back and check those backlinks manually and remove the links. It depends on how the link was placed as a back link.

    If not, you could rather just start building new backlinks for the website and making sure that it is not that looking spam at all and that it will cover up all those bad backlinks of the website. It may still hurt your website but in the long run, those bad backlinks will be gone and those you created will be the one to stay - especially when they are really strong and quality back links.


    Regards,
    Leonard
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