Spam backlinks

[originenergy]

Hi there, through Open Site Explorer I've found 5838 links (across 1458 domains) with the anchor text 'new porn' pointing to a site I manage. Someone's been busy!

Most (99.5%) appear to be created as Pingbacks with rel="nofollow" on them.

As a precaution I submitted a file through the Google Disavow tool which has had the status "You successfully uploaded a disavow links file" for the last month.

I'm wondering whether I should be concerned, or whether Google and other search engines will be clever enough to know this site is about electricity and not scantily clad people?

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi,

You're already quite lucky that most of the links are with the nofollow attribute. But as you've already uploaded the 'bad' links via the disavow tool I wouldn't worry to much about these links. I'm also of the opinion that Google is probably able to see that at least some percentage of these pages are a callback to the original sources and will not be measured that high.

Cheers,

[DennisSeymour]

You already took action, it's all in Google's hands now

I wont bother myself worrying about it, it's going to happen, and it's good that he didnt know how to spam you well.

As long as your base links are good, those links wont really mean much unless he knew what he was doing lol.

[Ikusa]

I agree with the above answers.  Once submitted to the disavow tool, you can relax.  Wish my spammy backlinks were nofollow!  Lucky you.  (and dont forget to mark your question as answered!)

[originenergy]

Good to hear, and yeah pretty pleased they've nearly all come up as nofollow. Thanks for the responses!