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    • totalvac
      totalvac last edited by

      I was going to try to contact webmasters to see if they would remove some of our spammy links. I see alot of them in MOZ but when you go to the site our anchor text is not there. Is this good? How often does MOZ refresh external links. Please see:

      http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/anchors?site=www.totalvac.com

      None of the links for the anchor text <a class="clickable title link-pivot" title="See top linking pages that use this anchor text." data-text="vacuum cleaner parts vacuum parts vacuum bags vacuum cleaner bags" data-id="46391436859">vacuum cleaner parts vacuum part...</a> in MOZ exist?

      We got hit extremely hard by Penguin in May

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      • MoosaHemani
        MoosaHemani last edited by

        If you get a hit from Penguin then you should take this seriously and see if there are bad links pointing back to the website you should try and remove them as much as you can!

        OSE take a month to update the data (my guess) so maybe you see the updates in the coming month but in order to be on the safe side just add the link in the link disavow file and submit it to Google.

        Hope this helps!

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