Links I am not Building?

[TP_Marketing]

Hi All,

I check webmaster multiple times on a daily basis, and I noticed some links that I have not worked on and look a bit spammy, is it possible for people to purposely pont bad links in my direction? If that is the case is there a way for me to remove them myself?

Also the number of total backlinks are very different in Webmaster and my Open Site Explorer, is this normal?

Thanks again !

[SEOKeith]

Yes that's normal Google have more power and can crawl more of the web than roger, plus roger chooses to not show low quality stuff (I am pretty sure this is still the case!?). - FYI roger is the bot that crawls the web for OSE.

And yes it is possible for people to point bad links at you, your site is on the internet anyone can link to you.

The best thing you can do is build a strong back link profile, then a few low quality links won't hurt - tbh a few links should be ok any way most people have some spammy stuff in their back link profile...

[TP_Marketing]

Is it possible  to have them removed? Can I do it myself?

thanks

[SEOKeith]

You can attempt to contact the web master of the site you are linked from and request that they remove your link...

How many are we talking about and what kind of site are they on?

[Bureau-24]

Hi,

There are a multitude of websites that will build crappy links going back to your website. Many of these links probably aren't a problem as I would bet Google knows the sites and their M.O. Yes, anyone can link to you and most of the time I wouldn't worry about these things. Bing does have a way for you to inform them of links you disavow. Check out the article here : http://searchengineland.com/bing-launches-way-to-disavow-links-but-why-126262

The easiest way to remove links is not very easy at all and involves contacting the site owners. I'm not aware of any specific tool Google has but I understood they were working on a similar tool to allow you to disavow links. A recent SEOMoz article did cover the procedure for dealing with negative SEO pretty well: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/to-catch-a-spammer-uncovering-negative-seo

There will always be a difference between OSE and Google reports of links. Totally normal.

[TP_Marketing]

almost 300 and in the form of blog responses? How can this happen?