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    • Modi
      Modi last edited by

      Am finding some very low authority sites (recently picked our articles from ezine and other article sites - written over a year back) and pasted on to there site. The number of articles copies are not 1 or 2, but more than 10-12 in all these domains

      This has also led to our anchor based url - backlink to us from them (a part of article). Have Wrote down to remove my author profile and articles - but there has been no response from webmaster of these sites.

      Is Disavow a right approach. The number of such sites are 4 or 5 in nature  !!

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      • irvingw
        irvingw last edited by

        Definitely disavow them if you can't get the webmasters to cooperate. Article directory links are bad enough as is, scraped and reposted articles are worse.

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        • Doc_Sheldon
          Doc_Sheldon last edited by

          If you're unable to get the webmasters to remove the links, I would definitely disavow them, by domain. They may be unwilling to remove the articles, but as long as you're not using them on your own site, the links are really your only concern. If they're showing your author profile on those sites, then I do think it would be a good idea to have that removed, as well, since Google still stumbles occasionally on attribution issues. That wouldn't have any effect on your link profile, but it could conceivably muddy the authorship waters.

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          • Modi
            Modi last edited by

            Sure, thanks. But am surprised that why the spam links are not referred in complete by Majestic & Open Site as against Google Webmaster - which has much more comprehensive data.

            What i observed through Open Site - around 4 to 5 spam domains

            Majestic seo - added another 4-5 domains

            Google Webmaster - was biggest surprise, when found even porn sites linking. Have never checked latest links from Google WT - infact have explored all links created in last 2 yrs. Has spent good 4-5 hrs checking page authority, domain, relevance and came to conclusion for some 55 spam domain linking to site (of which 15 do not exist as on date or url been nofollowed) - which were not mentioned in both Majestic & Open Site Explorer

            As advised - Have disavowed all of them !!

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