| Discrediting My Own Links
Can I tell Google I don't want credit for links? |
The_Ralph
msg:4230778 | 11:12 pm on Nov 15, 2010 (gmt 0) |
A couple months ago I noticed an enormous increase in the number of links to my site, as reported in Google webmaster tools.
I could think of no reason for this, and other tools that reported inbound links showed no increase.
When I look deeper, most of the links shown in Google webmaster tools are complete spam. In fact, they appear to be hidden from a regular users on the page on which they appear. Many are in an iframe.
Maybe a competitor paid for these links to try to hurt me. Either way, I never tried to get them.
I thought I heard at Pubcon last week that there was a way to report in Webmaster Tools that we don't want those links.
Is this true? I could not find a way to disown these links. If so, please let me know how to do it.
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FranticFish
msg:4232366 | 3:06 pm on Nov 19, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Been on a lot of people's wishlist for years - a perfect way to stop negative SEO, crap links from scrapers you don't want associated with your site, wipe the slate clean when you take over a new site that's been promoted by spammers or idiots. So many good reasons for this. If there is a way to do this I'd like to know too.
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