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    • corlin
      corlin last edited by

      Can anyone tell why pages like this are linking to our site? http://iga.edu/facebooktabs/images/inscribirse/formulario/en/noclosingcost.html

      This .edu page looks benign, however if you read it, it wont take long to see what appears to be machine generated content related to finance. It has ONLY ONE outgoing link and it to my site.

      To me it seems to be an attempt to make us look like a link buyer. We aren't! There are dozens of these type of pages linking to us.

      Here's the text around the link to our site, ERATE.com

      Apr the origination fee alone will cost you at closing however what your broker isn t should you pay a loan origination fee or get a no fee mortgage when refinancing refinancing mortgage rates scandal could cost you a year arkansas california colorado connecticut delaware.

      Any insight and opinions are welcome.

      Jeff Howard

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      • Martijn_Scheijbeler
        Martijn_Scheijbeler last edited by

        Wow this is just a great attempt on auto generating a lot of b*llshit content about a certain topic. Back to your issue, If there are link multiple links like this one I would recommend using the disavow tool Google Webmaster Tools provide as this will tell Google not to use these links in calculating your authority. Have seen this before, also before the disavow tool existed and this can cause some backlink profile issues.

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