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christianz
10:01 pm on Nov 1, 2025 (gmt 0)
99% of my backlinks are spam. And it is same for all large and old sites. If Google is indeed valuing them in any way (positive or negative) that is really sad.
I also every day get spam emails asking for sponsored post placement and so do everyone with similar size sites. If that kind of garbage didn't work, there wouldn't be so much inquiries.
None of this speaks highly of Google ranking intelligence.
Whitey
11:39 am on Nov 6, 2025 (gmt 0)
This just shows Google’s ranking layer and its sitelink generator are not the same system, and the sitelink side clearly isn’t filtering anchors the way we were told. Many sites have 80–99% junk in their backlink profiles, so if garbage anchors can surface in sitelinks, that’s a real signal leak.
It's also worth noting that the sitelink generator likely runs off a separate ML model trained on entity & anchor co-occurrence patterns, not PageRank-quality scoring, which probably explains why it’s still easy to influence right now
Short-term takeaway: if you do have a page or message you want surfaced in sitelinks, anchor-text seeding still works more than Google would like to admit. The window might not stay open long, but it’s open right now.
gauravshete
11:16 am on Dec 11, 2025 (gmt 0)
Yes this is the case with every big brand website which gets affected by their competitors. If you find too many malicious backlinks which you feel are bad and are not from your niche then you need to disavow them by using Google's disavow tool. Search for Google disavow tool and with your search console login follow the steps necessary to disavow bad links.
