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    • soulmktpro
      soulmktpro last edited by

      What should I do with links that Google considers link unnatural, but I have no control over them?

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      • NakulGoyal
        NakulGoyal last edited by

        You can try and sending the whois emails on each of those domains a polite or a C&D kind of a letter/email and see if they respond. If you have 500 such links, maybe 50 will get down and then respond to the request with the results that you tried and some of them were taken down, the rest they are not responding and there's nothing you can do about it.

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        • EwanFisher
          EwanFisher last edited by

          If you dont have control over these links then I wouldnt waste my time trying to remove them.

          A better use of your time would be creating higher quality relevant links which will eventually dilute the bad profile that you currently have.

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