Competitors Building Bad Back Links

[bamcreative]

Hi there,

I recently checked the back links for my site using Open Site Explorer, and I noticed a huge number of bad back links which I believe a competitor might be building to help lower my ranking for a number of highly competitive keywords.

Besides spending time disavowing these links, what else can be done? Has anyone else been faced with the same problem?

Any help would be appreciated.

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[LesleyPaone]

Really nothing else can be done. You can try to contact the sites and see if they can take them off, but that might take forever to actually do.

Just out of curiosity, I saw what anchor text they were using, what is your industry?

[bamcreative]

Hi Lesley,

Thanks for your answer.

We're in web design and web development, so it's completely unrelated. Very sly tactics.

So basically there isn't much we can do besides disavowing the links?

[LesleyPaone]

More than likely the company is using some source like fiverr to create the links. Pay a guy in another country to run a program for a few thousand back links. So there really is no going to the person and asking them to stop.

By chance do you know which competitor it is?

[McTaggart]

This might help: http://moz.com/blog/to-catch-a-spammer-uncovering-negative-seo