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[panini]

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[William.Lau]

It really depends, you should take a look at the link profile of those sites to see if they are low quality. Low quality as in these sites are not that popular or low quality as if they are spam sites?

If the site is large then I mean 3 sites are not going to take you down because Google obviously knows there are things you can't control. But if this happens very often, you should send takedown notices to them and have them removed.

How these links are getting there, it could be competitors trying to devalue your site, or it could just be a feed grabber or a site that generates a bunch links to multiple sites.

[irvingw]

Google can tell the difference between a site that aggregates content from around the web and a spam site. The aggregate sites would take down the whole web if they were to be considered link sapm. Google just ignores their links.  I would check to see if they link to other sites as well? As long as no spam is involved, I would ask them to remove the links but  I wouldn't be very concerned if they didn't.

[panini]

Thanks for the answers so far guys!

It appears they do indeed link out to other companies in the same industry and the tend to just have a link plus the Meta Title and tag each website under particular products. We'll ignore these from our backlink clean up efforts.

I've exported a list of 1000 domains from GWT that link to our site and ordered by PageRank (a la Richard Baxter's advice) and can see 37 domains with no PR. Of these, some are indexed as anywhere between 20k pages to over 1 million pages yet their sites are down. I appreciate it takes time for Google to completely remove a site from its index but I'm finding it hard to identify which bad quality links to go after.

Thanks.

[MarieHaynes]

Did you create these links?  Likely not.

Every site has a bunch of aggregator sites that link to them and Google knows that.  What Google is looking for when divvying out penalties is obvious attempts at manipulation.

I wouldn't worry about them!