Site's IP showing WMT 'Links to My Site'

[evansluke]

I have been going through, disavowing spam links in WMT and one of my biggest referral sources is our own IP address.

Site: Covers.com
IP: 208.68.0.72

We have recently fixed a number of 302 redirects, but the number of links actually seems to be increasing. Is this something I should ignore / disavow / fix using a redirect?

[RyanPurkey]

That's weird. Isn't the IP for that domain: 208.68.72.102 with most of your other domains on the 208.68.72.### root?  Maybe there's some sort of conflict from your A records subdirectories like experts.covers.com and spaces.covers.com...  I'd lean towards using a more advanced crawler like Screaming Frog to uncover what's going on there, or work with your DNS admin as this could be connected to a lot more complicated issue than WMT would display.

[evansluke]

Good stuff. I will round up the nerds. It has been tough to troubleshoot since SEO has been neglected and I am worried I am seeing cascading problems.

[evansluke]

Addendum to this story: it turns out that this was likely a malicious activity with an extremely similar IP address to ours so we might not notice. We have disavowed.