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    • Tiedemann_Anselm
      Tiedemann_Anselm last edited by

      Hi guys, since December I'm receiving thousands of bad backlinks from websites that copy my content and content from other websites. I also noticed a drop in the organic visits each month.

      Is it possible that Google is penalizing me for those backlinks? I know that I can ask the webmaster to remove the links but I don't believe that they will do. Look like it's a robot that does all this automatically.

      Should I use the Google disavow tool? Any other ideas?
      Check images below please.
      Thanks!

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        • mcncl
          mcncl last edited by

          So, they're copying your content but providing a link back to your website? Sounds like it could be recognised as providing credit for the content.

          It shouldn't take "6 months" to recover from bad links as backlink analysis is now part of Google's "live" algorithm, any changes should see results within a few days/weeks at most.

          Use the "latest links" and "most links" tools in GSC to download a .csv file and analyse the amount of links you are getting from "spammy" domains, disavow those and benchmark so that you can check results.

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              I'd question that timing. I recently uploaded a disavow file containing a few hundred domains and saw an uplift within a week.

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