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    • _Heiko_
      _Heiko_ last edited by

      Hello Moz Community,

      At first I wanted to say that I really like the Q&A section and that I read and learned a lot - and today it is time for my first own question 😉

      I checked our backlink-profile these days and I found in my opinion a few bad/spammy links, most of them are auto-generated by pickung up some (meta) information from our webpage. Now my question is if I should dasavow these links over webmasters or if these links shouldn't matter as I guess basically every webpage will be picked up from them. Especially from the perspective that our rankings dropped significantly last weeks, but I am not sure if this can be the real reason.

      Examples are pages like:

      https://www.askives.com/ -Auto-Generates for example meta descriptions with links

      http://www.websitesalike.com/ -find similar websites

      http://mashrom.ir/ -no idea about this, really crazy

      Or we are at http://www.europages.com/, which makes sense for me and we get some referral traffic as well, but they auto-generated links from all their TLDs like .gr / .it / .cn etc. -just disavow all other TLDs than .com?

      Another example would be links from OM services like:

      seoprofiler.com

      Moreover we have a lot of links from different HR portals (including really many outdated job postings). Can these links “hurt” as well?

      Thanks a lot for your help!

      Greez

      Heiko

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      • DennisSeymour
        DennisSeymour last edited by

        Yeah, practically every site out there gets those so I would look at the other reasons for the traffic drop.

        If it's really bothering you then just domain:askives.com each of those and submit them.

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