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    • delcerro
      delcerro last edited by

      Hi!

      Thank you in advance for your help. Few months ago we suffered a content spam attack. Now, We have discovered that we have imbound links pointing the spam content from external spam and untrusted sites. Could be this affect our ranking? In this case... How can we notify to Google that we refuse these imbound links?

      Cheers,

      Luis

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      • CleverPhD
        CleverPhD last edited by

        The answer is yes, this could negatively impact you.  You need to reach out to those sites and email them to get removal.  Document everything that you do.   Then you can then use the disavow tool to tell Google to ignore.    You can also Google link removal software to get help in the first part of the project.

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        • delcerro
          delcerro last edited by

          Thank you very much!

          I think that the correct tool is in https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links

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