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    • affigroup
      affigroup last edited by

      Hello,

      I'll try to be concise as I can.

      I run a coupon codes site.
      Today when I loggein in webmaster tools I noticed many new links to my website.

      And all to a single page. (mydomain.com/stores/companyname).
      I tend to think that spam was made by the person who owns that company because he/she used achors related to his bussiness rather than the company name + coupon or company name + discounts.

      Besides the fact that these links have no value and created automatically by software there are also links from pornographic websites. (bet he paid someone on fiverr for link building and made my website tier 1)

      I was thinking of 2 options:
      1. I remove that page from my website. (mydomain.com/stores/hiscompany) and use disallow. Not sure I can find all the links poiting to that page.
      2. Redirect that page mydomain.com/stores/company to hiscompany.com so he can enjoy his spam.

      I would appreciate if someone can answer me.

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      • Philip-DiPatrizio
        Philip-DiPatrizio last edited by

        If you decide to remove that page from your site, disavow will not be necessary.  Once the links point to a 404 page, they wouldn't count against you.

        You could leave the page on your site, and use majesticseo.com, ahrefs.com, opensiteexplorer.org, and webmaster tools to compile as many of the links pointing to that page as you can -- then disavow them.  But first, check your analytics and see if anyone ever visits that page anyways.  If the traffic is 0 or anything you're worth parting with... just remove the page and 301 it to his homepage 😉  That's a hilarious idea, btw.

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        • affigroup
          affigroup last edited by

          Thank you!

          glad you like my idea -)

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          • MoosaHemani
            MoosaHemani last edited by

            Sounds like a perfect plan with extra preventive measures!!

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