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    • rdominey
      rdominey last edited by

      I dropped like a rock in Google rankings on the 24<sup>th</sup>
      of April. After having to become familiar with Google webmaster tools and doing
      allot of investigating I discovered that there is a website www.siteloki.com  that has 6,742 links to my website. I have
      tried to contact siteloki with no response. I tracked them on Whois to an
      office suite in LA called the building to find that the suite listed is the
      building management suite.  I have had
      the following sent to them via email, their contact page and posted on their website
      forum and still no reply:

      Please take action to remove all links to this website
      immediately!

      I have been notified by my client that your website has a
      malicious attack using links from www.siteloki.com
      against www.getyourphotosoncanvas.com.

      My client did not solicit these links, pay for these links or authorize any
      third party to build links for them. They just appeared. The links are even
      pointing to my client’s old website (same url). This is a big problem and I
      don’t understand why these links exist. There are currently 6,471 links from
      your domain. Please remove these links immediately or we will consider legal
      action against your company. We have contacted Google on the behalf of our
      client and informed them of this malicious act. I expect to see these links
      removed immediately!

      Regards,

      I have submitted the site in the malware reporting section
      of webmasters tools. I have searched but cannot find any documentation on how
      to block this type of attack. It seems that Google failed to provide any means
      for an honest website owner following the rules to block this type of attack and
      as a result we have been unjustly penalized by Google with a drop to the bottom
      in our page ranking.

      I would appreciate ANY HELP in removing these links and getting the Siteloki website blocked from linking to my website?

      Any Ideas?

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      • Sean_Dawes
        Sean_Dawes last edited by

        Does your client have any webmaster tools warnings about suspicious back link profile? If so, you should be able to file a response showing all your documentation on getting them removed and google potentially will take measures to not attribute any value to those links.

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        • rdominey
          rdominey @Sean_Dawes last edited by

          No, there were no warnings in
          Webmaster tools regarding the harmful backlinks. I discovered this in checking
          the site.

          I wanted to know if there was any
          way to remove these links or let Google know that the links are not something
          that we wanted or paid for or arranged from any third party.

          _Google should have a method for
          website owners to submit a website that is linking to them that they want Google
          to block or ignore for rankings purposes.  _

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