Spam link? Links from linguee

[SEO-SMB]

Hi Everyone

My site received a notification of unnatural links in Webmaster Tools and the site has had a penalty applied.

I can see there are a lot of links from a site : linguee.com .de. nl.  ect ..more than 30k of them!

I am not sure where did those links come from!  The suddenly appeared over the weekend.

Does anyone has similar experience before and any suggestion?

Thanks

Ricky

[paints-n-design]

I read about that a few mont ago in a german SEO Blog.

Linguee indexes your content (if you have several languages) and shows an translation example based on your content. They link to you several times. A linguee result looks like that:

http://www.linguee.de/deutsch-englisch/uebersetzung/exzenterschnecke.html

If you have a lot of content in more than one language, you can get a lot of links from linguee. Maybe you can disallow linguee bot to index your pages. I thought google knows that problem, and don't see these links as unnatural

[SEO-SMB]

Hiya

Thanks for your response!

I have searched around, there are cases that suggests that Google is aware the site model of Linguee  and as long as it is high quality site, it wont see as unnatural. However, looking at the links profiles, only the links from Linguee looks "Unnatural" due to its huge links numbers.

..that is quite an annoying way to start a Monday morning.. @-@

[KeriMorgret]

Someone also asked about this a year ago at http://moz.com/community/q/spam-link-links-from-linguee, if you want a few more opinions, or want to contact anyone to see how it ended up for them.

[dMaLasp]

In the search console I have 900 links from different linguee domains and I not sure if I have to take actions.

After reading this post and the previous one I'm not sure what to do.

Does anyone has any experience to share about linguee links?