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    • Lakiscy
      Lakiscy last edited by

      Hi,

      I have a sub-page on my website with a lot of spam links pointing on it. I was wondering if Google will ignore that spam links on my site if i go and hide this page using the robots.txt

      Does that will get me out of Google's randar on that page or its useless?

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      • webseoservices
        webseoservices last edited by

        Hi, my personal opinion is that if they were unintentional or not done by you then Google will ignore these and not penalise site (see Rans Whiteboard Friday video on Negative SEO).

        However if it is a page that is not very important to you then maybe you should consider removing this page from Googles index (use GWT for this) and then getting Google to re-index a new page that has no spam links pointing to it?

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        • zigojacko
          zigojacko last edited by

          Does it rank for anything worthwhile?

          Does it have any legitimate / valueable links pointing to it?

          If the answer is no to both of those questions, just delete the page and recreate it at a new URL and request a removal of the old URL from Google's index (and obviously don't 301 redirect it).

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