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Thank you for your reply, I will follow your advice and go over all of my links again.

John

Hi All

We are trying to go through all of our backlinks to see which links are good and which are bad. We are

using two paid for tools to find our backlinks and sort them out, either good or bad. I have found that

both tools have returned links as being good even though

the links are not indexed by Google and have no page rank. Also we have found that both tools returns

some links as good even though the links are pointing to a 404 page.

Any advice on how to proceed would be appreciated.

Ian

Thank you very much for your feedback.

John

Two years ago we were not doing very well so we employed a consultant from the USA who drilled right down into our site and advised us on many things which would improve our website. We worked with this lady for 18 months. One of the main changes that we made was to change how our url looked. For example instead of the following usrls:

www.change.com/catergory/subcatergory/product.html we changed to:

www.change.com/1234   the 1234 being the product

With all of the advice this lady gave us which included content, keyword research, social media, back links. In the last year we have seen our keywords indexed in Semrush for the UK rise from 200 to 1,000 as of today. Our sales are well up and I am very pleased.

We at the time of employing this lady started another site in a slightly different field but stopped working on it to make sure our main site would get the attention it deserved.

We now have time to work on our new site which has had work done to it. The problem I have is that I asked our web developers to change the structure so that the urls would look the same as our exisiting site www.newsite.com/5678 for products. (it does not have to be a number we could have the name of a product) They have informed me that this is anti SEO which is hard for me to understand as we have done so well with our current site. Can anyone advise as to which is the best route to go down?

Thank you in advance.

Hi

Thank you so much for your recommendation for the Redirection plugin. I have installed it and it is working fine.

Hi

Thank you for your response. I can not work out how to do a 301 re-direct in wordpress, I have looked but it appears to only show how to re-direct pages that are already there.

In wordpress on some of our blogs when we have gone to publish them wordpress has shortened the url. In Google webmaster tools the orignal url is coming up as a 404 error. This url is not indexed in Google. Is this something to worry about and can this be avoided?

Thank you in advance.

Hi

Thank you for your response. The site is a new site launched last month. It is Chinese however I could not find any contact details. I did send an e-mail via the website but up to now there is no response. Some of the search terms which they have used with our name are appearing on page one of Google which this morning was quite bad for any Google searcher as they were then re-directed to a different product to what they were interested in.

Through Google I put in a request to have the urls removed stating the above and that they were using our comany name which is in the process of being trademarked. This afternoon I have now seen that all of the urls are now 404s. Has Google actually read my request or are the urls removed as standard until they look into it. I have had no response from Google on this?

Thank you in advance.

In my Google webmaster tools for backlinks to my site there is this website. rcourier.com which shows 97,000 backlinks. When I dig deeper it in GWT it shows urls lick this http://www.ebrandtopmall.com/?from=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rcourier.com%2Fus%2Fhgsoccerbox926.asp%3F35401&q=Borussia+Dortmund+Training+Jersey+2014–2015+(Black)+|+Soccer+Box I cannot find any backlinks to my site if I view the source code. I cannot understand why Google should link this to my website. Should I be worried and what should i do about it?

Thank you in advance.

Chris

Thank you for your help it is much appreciated.

I assume that as they are duplicates they do not affect the value we are getting from the main site?

I am in the process of setting up a disavow file for Google. We are using a company called Linkdelete to locate our toxic links. We currently have a link on a this site www.caughtoffside.com which has a PR5 and good traffic however our disavow file from Linkdelete shows the following links to be removed which our link is also on:

domain:aquilani.caughtoffside.com
domain:cursors.caughtoffside.com
domain:database.caughtoffside.com
domain:havewww.caughtoffside.com
domain:links.caughtoffside.com

If we add these to the file will it affect the our main link on www.caughtoffside should these toxic links be disavowed?

Thanks in advance.

Chris

Thank you for all of your help.

What about thedomainnaWhat a bout the domain name in the search box, do you still think I should claim my payment back from PayPal, the agreement was that I did not want my domain name on any of his directories.

Thank you for a good reply, we have used the disavow tool six months ago but it has had no effect at all, our main keyword is the backbone of our business we have got to do something or else we will not have a business.

I have just paid a lot of money to have spam back links removed from directories owned by the same person, the links were on pages that were set up for me without me knowing, at the end of each url is my domain name, the links have been removed on the page leaving a directory page with no other links on however the url is still there with my domain name at the end of the url and in each search box is my domain name, I have asked for the pages to be removed altogether as I did say before I paid the money I did not want my domain name on any of his directories, he has come back and said leaving my domain name in the urls is not a problem as far as Google is concerned, can anyone please advise, I can ask for a refund from PayPal, there are over 768 links on different sections of a number of directories.

Thank you inadvance.