Competitor has built a link farm - It's working

[danieldaher]

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[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

1. Report it, but if they're getting caught they won't' have any luck.

2. Ignore the Moz metrics on this, clearly Moz didn't catch it.

[7thPowerInc]

For (2) you could contact Google - describe the issue and attach a spreadsheet with the spammy links

[KevinBudzynski]

It may be working in the short-term--but won't in the long-term.

How could this possibly be working? The algo has around 200 factors and new website/pages are increasing at an incredible pace. The indexing of these pages and ranking by the algo isn't perfect and typically can be exploited (intentional or not) in the short-term much easier than in the long-term.

[danieldaher]

Thanks for the response, Kevin. When you say long term how long are you talking? 6 months, a year, more?

[danieldaher]

Thanks, Marijn. When you say report are you talking about reporting it here? https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport And which category does this fall under? I don't know if paid links is it or not.

[danieldaher]

Thank you! Are you saying to report that on this page?  https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport And which category do you think best describes this situation?

[KevinBudzynski]

Difficult to say, but I would say much sooner than 6 month (I would say 30-60 days or sooner). Take a look at this link scheme  help article from Google and if it fits, let them know (link in last paragraph).  Good luck!