Dealing with Low Quality Backlinks
Are you worried about low quality sites and low quality backlinks to your website? You’ve worked hard to build a good reputation in a “good neighborhood” for your website and now worry about links you’ve found that are undesirable and will hurt your SEO. Here are some tips to help you deal with this issue.
Don’t worry about low quality backlinks and focus on content and structure for the best SEO results.
As you know, the sites which link to your site are part of most search engine ranking algorithms. Remember though, incoming links aren’t the only measure used to determine page rank. Google SEO requires great content or useful tools and services also play a significant part of page rank. Other factors that influence your page rank are site structure, do the words from a user query appear in your page title, how close are keywords on your page…and a whole bunch of stuff Google won’t tell us about. The point is, if you have a regularly updated site with good content, user’s will appreciate your site and those bad links will have very little influence.
Contact the sites and ask for your links to be removed
Of course it’s better to have a high quality site with relevant content and great links. So if you can and it’s manageable from a time standpoint, contact these sites and ask them to remove your links. Remember you need to do this work yourself, it’s not something Google and the other search engines will do for you.
Other than that, there’s not much you can do about an uncooperative site owner who won’t remove your links. Focus on being a great website designer and work on a more productive link building strategy from sites who you want to link to. Remember, low quality links rarely stand the test of time and will eventually disappear on their own, maybe quicker than you think. If their on a link farm site or page, they’ve probably already been discontinued by Google and the other search engines.
If you feel that strongly, you can always report them to Google using their spam report or paid links report.
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