Removing inbound Spam Links

[Simple_Machines]

Hello,

Last February one of my clients websites was delisted. It turns out that some time ago that had attempted to launch a social network along time lines of ning. The project had fallen apart of the was still up. At some point spammers found it and started using it as part of a link farm. Once it was discovered, the subdomain it was posted on was removed and the website returned to search within 2 weeks.

Last week, the website disappeared again OSE shows that in the last 2 months the website has got 2000 (There are about 16,000 total spam links) additional spam links now pointing and the root domain. On top of that, Google Webmaster Tools is reporting about 15,000 404 errors.

I have blocked Google from crawling the path where the path were the spam pages used to be. If there a way to block the 1000s of inbound spam links?

[SparkplugDigital]

There is no way to block tons of spam links except moving to a new site. Rand Fishkin made a great point in the recent webinar about finding opportunities with Open Site Explorer that if you have a strong link profile then spam links will look unnatural. But if your link profile is low quality, then the spam links will look like part of your linkbuilding strategy.

[KeriMorgret]

Hi Mike,

Just wondering how this turned out, and if you're still looking for advice. Your question came through when we had a hiccup with the Q&A section and didn't get the visibility that it normally would, which is why you didn't have much in the way of answers.