User:DanThies

JohnMu posted over here and suggested I should start a different thread.Both of the website received warning emails over at GWT. This is odd, because none of the sites has received a "link building" campaign since I've owned them.When I use 3rd party software (e.g. Majestic) I noticed a huge number of unnatural backlinks were created to target to urls, you know, though that I didn't place the backlinks. And, I have, typically, would advise people to not buy into backlink exchanges, profile links, paid links. You know it is easy for a spam peddler to add spammy links pointing any website, because doing this sort of thing is the only thing they perform every day.Thus far, none of the sites seems to have adversely affected because of messages, and additionally in my situation, organic visitors from Bing/Google/etc isn't especially important considering the other traffic sources the sites already have. I have submitted requests on both websites since JohnMu suggested, however that other questions remain :What actions can a site owner undertake the moment that something like this occurs?Can the big search engines still say that things other people undertake to my website shouldn't ,uh, affect the rankings of someone elses site?If it's the case, does Google understand that they are basically creating the black market that benefits the spammy backlinks that Google wants to stop?Why, should you run across unnatural backlinks, don't you just devalue them from the engine and carry on?It's less crucial to many of us, to gain relief for these issues. It's vastly more meaningful to webmasters that someone fix these problems soon.

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