Dodgy backlinks pointing to my website - someone trying to ruin my SEO rankings?

[IsaCleanse]

I just saw in 'Just discovered' section of MOZ that 2 new backlinks have appeared back to my website - www.isacleanse.com.au from spammy websites which look like they might be associated with inappropriate content.

1. http://laweba.net/opinion-y-tecnologia/css-naked-day/comment-page-53/

peepshow says: (peepshow links off to my site)07/17/2016 at 8:55 pm2. http://omfglol.org/archives/9/comment-page-196

voyeur says: (voyeur linking off to my site)
July 17, 2016 at 7:58 pm

Any ideas if this is someone trying to send me negative SEO and best way to deal with it? 

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Hi Sandi,

It will be almost impossible to see who has done this, but you have two options.

1. Contact the sites in question and request that the links are removed, or
2. Just disavow them

Disavowing is the solution most will take because it can be a lot quicker than trying to get hold of people at sites like these.

It is something you will have to stay on top of though - keep a check in Search Console for any new ones that pop up that shouldn't.

-Andy

[Deacyde]

Also to add onto what Andy has said:

There are people trying to make money off the removal of those backlinks, so in today's world unless it looks like a legit site, better off to just disavow, most likely they're going to ask for money.

Also, this might not be a competitor, it might be a scraper too, what has puzzled me from day 1 about penguin is, how can you punish a site that gets scraped backlinks? Often they use keywords anchor text and so forth.

So disavow, and keep up the monthly checks...

[Linda-Vassily]

Also keep in mind that a few bad backlinks are not going to hurt you, especially in the context of a lot of good ones. Google knows that these come up.

From Google's Search Console (aka Webmaster Tools) help:

"In most cases, Google can assess which links to trust without additional guidance, so most normal or typical sites will not need to use this [disavow] tool."

[ebest.cl]

Hello.

How can I know if my backlinks are bad ones?

Thank you.

[IsaCleanse]

Hey Francisco

My back links were on websites that had content linking to po-rnography so was pretty easy to work out.

To work out if your backlinks are bad quality - you can use the MOZ Open Site Explorer

https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/

This will show the links and domains linking to your website and their SPAM scores - you can click on the SPAM SCORE icon which will show you why it has marked it as that level etc.

[ebest.cl]

Hello Sandi.

I understand. It seems that my backlinks are fine.

Thanks again.