More than 2K dofollow links, from one site with one anchor text?

[cvissi]

A week ago one person of our team added a link with anchor text on a web directory website PR5, but from this one link, Google indexed more than 2K links from this website with same anchor text, and then our keyword ranked first on SERP. The problem is that this clearly look like SPAM to Google, so which way is better to remove this link, with disawow tool, or to contact the web directory site owner?Could anyone give me any advice for this?

[BeardoCo]

I would be proactive and email the website to take the link down.  If they do not reply in 24 hours I would use the disavow tool and make sure to cover your tracks.

[bradwayland]

In this case I would not change anything.  Google sees links in templates all the time.  It is natural for websites to link to places in the header, footer, sidebar etc where those links will get duplicated.  A natural backlink profile will have some links that look like this. Let me argue from the inverse.  Are you suggesting that I should just simply find a site that will link to one of my competitors for their main keywords from 2000+ sidebar pages?  Very rarely have I heard of Google penalizing anyone over a single link.  It appears you got the result you wanted so now go out and build some additional trust.  Keep building the case for that keyword to rank.  Hope this helps.

[cvissi]

Thanks a lot Brad, this was very helpfull.

We always create trusted links, it was the first time that one new member of the team has done a web directory submission, and he didn't expected the duplicate links, like this one from footer and sidebars.

Thanks again for this advice.

[BeardoCo]

I think that is also a good answer, but I believe you have to take in consideration your anchor text diversity.  If you have been targeting this "phrase" with any consistency and then you add 2k more instances of this keyword it could pose as some trouble and look unnatural.  Remember linking is about looking as natural as possible, so if you think that is covered then you should be in good shape

[cvissi]

Beardo

All links are from this keyword pharse that was why I asked for any help, or advice here so I will try to create some new natyral links, in other way I will need to use disawow tool, or to contact the website owner to remove all links.

Thanks Again

[PIXUS]

Yes I agree with BeardCo, that smacks of unatural linking if you ask me (directories normally put links in sidenavs and footers if they have been 'paid' for which is really bad).

You could contact the directory and ask to have the link solely on yor profile page, that way it will be one link from, with one anchor from one domain which is alot more natural than 2k links with same anchor and same domain!

Just my view!

[underscorelive]

I agree with Brad - However, you may find these links start to disappear. Lot's of these directories feature 'recent profiles' or 'new links' in the sidebar / footer etc, which causes your link to appear everywhere the template is repeated.

They may reduce down to 2 or 3 links from this site over the coming weeks