Help!!! Am I being Attacked???

[BeytzNet]

Hello,

I do not believe so much in spammy links attacks and I definitely do not believe my site is worth attacking.

However, I'm seeing new links pointing to my site that I have no idea where they come from.

I just spotted three articles on a poor crappy article site with exact match keywords point to me. The articles are completely unique (copyscaped them) and they were posted according to the site time stamp during Oct and Nov 2012. (And they Appear in the WMT recently discovered links from more or less the same time).

What to do (besides for disavowing this domain)?

Thanks

[SorinaDascalu]

In those articles the backlinks to your website are the only ones?

If there are also other backlinks maybe the one posting the article put those links to your site without any intention to cause you harm, maybe he just wanted to add other backlinks too, to make the article look more natural.

I'm not a big fan of the Disavow Links Tool. In the official release Google said this tool should be used just in case you receive the Unnatural links warning. My advice is to always think twice before using this tool.

[BeytzNet]

Yes these links are the only ones. It is really strange...

[Mark_Ginsberg]

Have you outsourced link building / SEO services to anyone? It could be they used a tool or outsourced this work to someone else, and these articles only went live in Oct. and Nov, even though they had technically gone through the pipeline a few months prioer?

It doesn't seem like someone would attack your site in that manner with a few articles on a crappy site - they would use sitewides, thousands of directory submissions, social bookmarks, etc., for much cheaper than having 3 unique articles written and posted with anchor text.

I'm more of the opinion these are remnants of an old link building strategy than of a malicious attack to hurt your site.

Mark

[BeytzNet]

Thanks, what you are saying makes sense.
(even though we haven't been using any SEO firm for many months now).

[irvingw]

are they your main keyword phrase? not sure why someone would go thru the trouble to make them unique if they wanted to sabotage you. have u tried contacting the author?

[BeytzNet]

I actually agree with what Mark Ginsberg said that it might be an SEO firm we hired way in the past (we don't have anyone for over 6 months) and might have pipe lined articles on our behalf.

But yes, main keywords to the exact landing pages