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Anyone knows good submission directories but in Spanish language

Dear, Moosa Hemani thank you for the respond. I kinda just felt that would be wrong but asking makes me feel good. lol Happy New Year.

Hi David, Sounds like you're on the right track there which is great, though it's often better to fix the problem rather than mask it with de-indexing. Even something like giving people an opportunity to write a bio about themselves could be a great way to get some unique content on these otherwise-empty pages as a quick example. I have seen a correlation between bounce rate and rankings. This doesn't necessarily mean causation of course but whether it's because of that bounce rate or the reason__s people are bouncing less, the ranking result is going to be the same Moz also covered this topic back in August too.

Are the links bad? If not, don't worry so much about where the links are pointing. The link distribution models to even out linking page, anchor text, etc. aren't necessary unless the links come from spam sites. Building (legit) links to deeper pages is generally a good strategy since the terms are more specific and often less competitive. If you think you're under penalty, though, let me know and my advice would be very different.

Nailed it!

Hi Russ, Did you read the question? We can't find out where the links are coming from....

Moreover, we have seen up to a 3 week lag between the time at which Google crawls a page to discover a dropped link and then actually removes that link from GSC data. So, basically it works like this... 1. You remove link from page... 2. Google re-crawls page... (can take hours to months depending on frequency of re-indexing by Google) 3. Googel removes link from Google Search Console (can take days to 3 weeks)

Hi there. Yes, it will. It works pretty much the same way as old PageRank system. Website's authority is divided equally by number of outgoing dofollow links. So, yes, you will get juice, just less than from more authoritive website. Check images from this old post: https://moz.com/blog/link-consolidation-the-new-pagerank-sculpting

you are fine, as long as there is a genuine reason for the link. If you think that link is useful for the user of that site then do it otherwise do not.

Hi Kadence, There are some really good responses already and some good links that I'd recommend taking a look at. I just wanted to add a few more points: Try to focus on creating the type of content that may attract links - so when you're creating it or thinking about an idea, go to Google and find 10 people who you think would link to the content. If you can't do this, then it may not be a link-worthy idea. That doesn't mean you don't do it at all, but it may be a piece of content that is designed more to get organic traffic than links. I wouldn't worry too much about a site being new. The tactics are still pretty much the same and if you're focusing on white hat techniques, I don't think it makes too much difference that the site is new. Take a look at a few competitors and run them through Open Site Explorer to see how they are generating links. This isn't to say you should copy them 100% - you want to get better links than them But they can provide some context and inspiration for directions to go in. I hope that helps! Paddy

Good move! This recently happened to my site as well; someone created an account and then sent thousands of sites from over 100 domains to that page. Best to disavow.

I think that you should check is this real visit or fake one. Check HTTP access logs about such referrer and see in Analytics (or other website analytics software that you used). Also visit URL where backlink should be. Then: In case of link to hacked pages - disavow ASAP. Bad guys make backlinks to hacked webpages to get higher position in SERP. But this could change your linking profile. And in some situation you may face Penguin algo filter. In case of link to other pages and source look shady - disavow ASAP. This could be even revenge for removed hack. Also can bring Penguin. In case of link to non-existing link i.e. bot traffic - leave. This is case when bot make "fake visit" tricking Analytics to count it. And webmasters go to inspect source. This is "curiosity driven visit", but messing your Analytics statistics. In case of regular link that is relevant - keep it. Example - i have link from Pakisanian forum about people discussing something like type X vs. type Y. And someone share link from mine site explaining "here is difference between them" in article that is exactly about their discussion. So until you didn't see original source can be anything. Also please check question and answers here:  https://moz.com/community/q/is-there-value-in-disavowing-links-if-you-there-is-no-google-penalty  so disavowing isn't tool that you only use in case of penalty. You can use it even w/o penalty to make link profile clean as possible.

I do a lot of link audits and most of the sites that I am working on do not have a penalty. Some have been suppressed by Penguin and some are sites that are trying to avoid a future Penguin hit because they've had low quality link building done for them in the past. When a site is affected by Penguin, the algorithm can act like an anchor that pulls the site down and keeps the site from ranking at their full potential. But, it's often difficult to know whether Penguin is affecting you or not because Google doesn't give you any notification or warning of the fact. As such, if there are possibly low quality links present then yes, by all means, disavow! I want to caution you though to not rely blindly on Link Detox data. I have reviewed many disavow files that have been created after using this tool and they are horrendously inaccurate. I've seen automated link auditing tools recommend disavowing fantastic naturally earned press links from highly authoritative sites. And, what usually happens more often is that the tool classifies many unnatural links as good ones. I think that these tools can be helpful when it comes to putting your links together in a manageable form, but you absolutely must look at each link individually. You can probably go straight to disavow for some links such as ones that come from sites that are obviously just for links such as freelinkdirectory.com or something like that. But, in most cases, a critical human eye needs to be used to look at each link and determine if it exists just for SEO purposes or has legitimate purpose outside of SEO. So, to answer your questions: Yes...go ahead and disavow even if there is no penalty. But as mentioned above, manually check these links first before disavowing. And don't worry that filing a disavow is going to put you on Google's radar. That's not true. 2)Yes, a 301 redirect passes link signals to the redirected site. So, if you purchased a site that has spammy links pointing to it and redirected that site to your main site you will have spammy links pointing to the main site. You'll need to file a disavow on the main site that contains the domains that are linking to the site you purchased and redirected. With that said, if there are a LOT of spammy links, you may want to assess risk vs reward. It's possible you won't be able to find and disavow all of the unnatural links and could invite Penguin issues on the new site. If the domain is one that could get a lot of type in traffic and you really want to redirect it there are ways you can redirect without passing on any link equity such as redirecting through an intermediary page that is blocked by robots.txt. If the links you are asking about are now pointing at 404 pages then they are essentially removed and you don't need to disavow those links. Hope that helps! Marie

Hi Kevin, Thank you very much for help. I have sent you an email. Regards, Dusan

Page Authority is a measure of a page's link strength, so to raise it you'll likely need to get some high-quality external links to those pages. Check out this article on Page Authority (and this one on Domain Authority).

It's entirely possible that indexation issues are contributing to what you're seeing, Matt. I'd also suggest reading through this Q&A thread by Rand: https://moz.com/community/q/da-pa-fluctuations-how-to-interpret-apply-understand-these-ml-based-scores

In terms of pure SEO benefit, it is not very helpful. It also can get you penalized, if it's abused/the majority of your backlinks. However, there can be very legitimate reasons to do and can bring you traffic. For example, if you sell widget X, and people who buy that widget tend to buy widget Y, then mutual linking could help you both. Perhaps something like, one person sells iPhones and you sell iPhone cases. Ruben

Not sure I understand what you mean.  Maybe I did a poor job of explaining. The sites are different enough where they merit having their own domains but they do share a common theme.  I only manage one of these domains but can get the others to link to us.  I'm trying to determine how they should link to us.

OK Thank you I guess if I am targeting users in the events niche I need to find those press releases.

As far as we know, the location of the domain does not have any significant impact on whether or not it can pass authority through outbound links.